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

Polizeiruf 110

Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police

In aller Freundschaft

Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort

All Movies (67)

Anatomy2000 · as Paulas Großvater
Picknick im Schnee1999 · as Mann mit Decke
Andy1992 · as Grandfather
Verlorene Landschaft1992
Die Spur des Bernsteinzimmers1992
Scheusal1992 · as Alfons Pfeiffer
Everything's a Lie1992 · as Notary
Unser Haus1991 · as Dr.Olbert
Farssmann oder Zu Fuß in die Sackgasse1991 · as Hinkelmann
The Architects1990 · as Alter
Der Magdalenenbaum1989 · as Opa Panse
Coming Out1989 · as Älterer Homosexueller Walter
Späte Ankunft1989 · as Kutscher Pankoke
Fallada: The Last Chapter1988 · as Doktor
Nachts schlafen die Ratten1988
Childhood1987 · as Lehrer
Stielke, Heinz, Fifteen...1987 · as Invalide
Der Traum vom Elch1986 · as Paulchen
Das wirkliche Blau1986
Ernst Thälmann1986 · as Emil Kirdorf
Die Schöne und das Tier1984 · as Alter
Zeitzünder1984 · as Dr. Engelberger
Chirurgus Johann Paul Schroth1981 · as Gundelsheimer
Chirurgus Johann Paul Schroth1981
Die Rache des Kapitäns Mitchell1979 · as Schiffsarzt
Sunday's Child Sometimes Runs Wild1978 · as Älterer Herr mit Hund
Jörg Ratgeb, Painter1978
Beethoven - Days in a Life1976 · as Grisslinger
Jede Woche Hochzeitstag1976 · as Otto Haubold
Man against Man1975 · as Angler
Till Eulenspiegel1975 · as Scholastischer Professor
Am Ende der Welt1975 · as Amtsdiener Göpel
Johannes Kepler1974 · as Richter
Ulzana1974 · as Mexikanischer Arzt
Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui1974 · as Butcher
Liberation - Part 4 : The Battle of Berlin1971
Optimistische Tragödie1971
Liberation - Part 3 : Direction of the Main Blow1971 · as Alfred Jodl
Pułapka1971 · as Runge
Liberation - Part 1 : The Fire Bulge1970 · as Alfred Jodl
Liberation - Part 2 : Breakthrough1970
Die Rosenholzmöbel1969 · as Duponchel
Heroin1968 · as Zollrat Donkenberg
Stories of That Night1967 · as Kilian (segment "Materna")
Zejście do piekła1966 · as Rudolf Knoll
Black Panthers1966 · as Dressurreiter Alois Feldmann
Lebende Ware1966 · as Erno Brody
Die Tage der Commune1966 · as Delegierter
Just Don't Think I'll Cry1965 · as Mantek
As Long as There’s Life in Me1965 · as Bethmann-Hollweg
Pension Boulanka1964 · as Dr. Vollmer
Jetzt und in der Stunde meines Todes1963 · as Herr Merker
Naked Among Wolves1963 · as Otto Lange
Entdeckung des Julian Böll1962
Little Red Riding Hood1962 · as Wolf
Ärzte1962
The Gleiwitz Case1961 · as Volksschullehrer
Der Fremde1961
Die Liebe und der Co-Pilot1961 · as Meteorologe
The Opportunists1960 · as Fario
Love's Confusion1959 · as Taxifahrer
Before lightning strikes1959 · as Silvio O. Schmitt
Ware für Katalonien1959 · as Portier
Der Prozeß wird vertagt1958
Ein Mädchen von 16 ½1958 · as Rohn
Les Misérables1958 · as Brevet (uncredited)
The Captain from Cologne1956

All TV Shows (21)

In aller Freundschaft1998 · as Herr Kagel
Der letzte Zeuge1998 · as Karl Waller
The German Bronx1997 · as Pfarrer Müller
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police1996 · as Neighbor
Immenhof1994 · as Wilhelm
Auf eigene Gefahr1993 · as Schreiner
Motzki1993 · as Birne
Albert Einstein1990 · as Max Planck
Barfuß ins Bett1988 · as Opa Jonny
A Stortebeker Girl1980 · as Opa Warning
Die Lange Strasse1979 · as ein Arzt
Polizeiruf 1101971 · as Herr Wolf
Polizeiruf 1101971 · as Herr Breit
Polizeiruf 1101971
Polizeiruf 1101971 · as Alfons Seebacher
Polizeiruf 1101971 · as Otto Masurke
Geheimkommando Ciupaga1968 · as Hauptmann Garzel
Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort1965 · as Matthes Horka
Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort1965 · as Opa Schütz
Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort1965 · as Sanitätsrat
The Green Monster1962 · as Dr. Luis Guerra