Known For
Acting
Born
Aug 26, 1912
Died
Jan 22, 2003
Place of Birth
Köln, Germany
Credits
81 titles
Werner Dissel
Biography
Werner Friedrich Dissel (26 August 1912 – 22 January 2003) was a German actor, director, and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime. Dissel's began working as a newspaper photographer in the late 1920s. After the Nazis' rise to power, he became a member of an antifascist group headed by Harro Schulze-Boysen, and was involved in the resistance newspaper Wille zum Reich. Dissel was caught and imprisoned from 1937 to 1939. During his time in prison, the Gestapo arranged for Boysen to visit him, in the hope that something incriminating would be said while the two would be left alone in a tapped room; Boysen passed a cigarette pack to Dissel, on which he wrote that the police had no concrete evidence against him. After his release, Boysen convinced him to volunteer into the Wehrmacht, so he could "destroy Hitler's army from within". Dissel joined the armed forces shortly before the German Invasion of Poland, and served in a military meteorology unit. At 1942, he barely avoided an arrest during the Gestapo's crackdown on the Red Orchestra. After the war, he openly joined the KPD and decided to pursue his old dream to become an actor. Dissel joined a cabaret in Wiesbaden, and in 1950 emigrated to East Germany. There he appeared in numerous plays, TV shows and movies. He worked with the Berliner Ensemble, DEFA and DFF. He continued his acting career after the reunification. In total, he appeared in more than a hundred film and television productions. He received the Art Prize of the German Democratic Republic at a collective awarding in October 1986. Source: Article "Werner Dissel" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Known For
Filmography
Anatomy
Paulas Großvater
Picknick im Schnee
Mann mit Decke
In aller Freundschaft
Herr Kagel
Der letzte Zeuge
Karl Waller
The German Bronx
Pfarrer Müller
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
Neighbor
Immenhof
Wilhelm
Auf eigene Gefahr
Schreiner
Motzki
Birne
Andy
Grandfather
Verlorene Landschaft
Die Spur des Bernsteinzimmers
Scheusal
Alfons Pfeiffer
Everything's a Lie
Notary
Unser Haus
Dr.Olbert
Farssmann oder Zu Fuß in die Sackgasse
Hinkelmann
Albert Einstein
Max Planck
The Architects
Alter
Der Magdalenenbaum
Opa Panse
Coming Out
Älterer Homosexueller Walter
Späte Ankunft
Kutscher Pankoke
Barfuß ins Bett
Opa Jonny
Fallada: The Last Chapter
Doktor
Nachts schlafen die Ratten
Childhood
Lehrer
Stielke, Heinz, Fifteen...
Invalide
Der Traum vom Elch
Paulchen
Das wirkliche Blau
Ernst Thälmann
Emil Kirdorf
Die Schöne und das Tier
Alter
Zeitzünder
Dr. Engelberger
Chirurgus Johann Paul Schroth
Gundelsheimer
A Stortebeker Girl
Opa Warning
Die Rache des Kapitäns Mitchell
Schiffsarzt
Die Lange Strasse
ein Arzt
Sunday's Child Sometimes Runs Wild
Älterer Herr mit Hund
Jörg Ratgeb, Painter
Beethoven - Days in a Life
Grisslinger
Jede Woche Hochzeitstag
Otto Haubold
Man against Man
Angler
Till Eulenspiegel
Scholastischer Professor
Am Ende der Welt
Amtsdiener Göpel
Johannes Kepler
Richter
Ulzana
Mexikanischer Arzt
Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui
Butcher
Liberation - Part 4 : The Battle of Berlin
Polizeiruf 110
Herr Wolf
Optimistische Tragödie
Liberation - Part 3 : Direction of the Main Blow
Alfred Jodl
Pułapka
Runge