Werner Peters
A prolific German actor who worked until the day he died, Werner Peters played both sinister and melodramatic characters with equal aplomb. His first major film part came with the lead in Wolfgang Staudte's "Man of Straw," in which he played the power-crazed Diederich Heßling, a character who gets ahead by trampling others. His next big turn came in the disturbing "The Devil Strikes at Night," in which Peters played the desperate Willi Keun, a married man wrongly accused of murdering his lover. Taking a break from fiendish characters, Peters soon after became a fixture in the Dr. Mabuse melodramas of the 1960s. He appeared in German auteur Fritz Lang's "The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse" as the obnoxiously aggressive insurance salesman Hieronymus B. Mistelzweig. Peters went on to play Böhmler in "The Return of Dr. Mabuse," and the Clown Bobo, a revue theater entertainer involved in criminal doings, in "The Invisible Dr. Mabuse." The actor became known to American audiences playing General Kohler, the strong-willed German commander in the World War II war epic "Battle of the Bulge" and as another German war operative--Otto Schack--in "36 Hours," in which he played opposite James Garner. Peters worked consistently until 1971, when he died of a heart attack at age 52 during a promotional tour for a movie.
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Werner Peters
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Death Knocks Twice | Charly Holmann (Character) | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Istanbul Express | Dr. Lenz (Character) | - | 1968 |
40% |
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The Secret War of Harry Frigg | Maj. von Steignitz (Character) | - | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Corrupt Ones | Pinto (Character) | - | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Black Eagle of Santa Fe | Morton (Character) | - | 1966 |
No Score Yet |
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I Deal in Danger | Elm (Character) | - | 1966 |
33% |
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A Fine Madness | Dr. Freddie Vorbeck (Character) | - | 1966 |
63% |
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Battle of the Bulge | Gen. Kohler (Character) | - | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wild Kurdistan | Mütesselin (Character) | - | 1965 |
No Score Yet |
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Dog Eat Dog | Unknown (Character) | - | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Secret of the Black Widow | Mr. Shor (Character) | - | 1964 |
83% |
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36 Hours | Otto Schack (Character) | - | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Curse of the Hidden Vault | Spedding (Character) | - | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The White Spider | Sergeant Meals (Character) | - | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Black Abbot | Fabian Gilder (Character) | - | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Curse of the Yellow Snake | Stephan Narth (Character) | - | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Carpet of Horror | Crayton (Character) | - | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hypnosis | Kommisar (Character) | - | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Return of Dr. Mabuse | Böhmler (Character) | - | 1961 |
100% |
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The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse | Hieronymus B. Mistelzweig (Character) | - | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Court Martial | Brenner (Character) | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Black Chapel | Heinrich Himmler (Character) | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bobby Dodd greift ein | Merten (Character) | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Roses for the Prosecutor | Otto Kugler (Character) | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Copper | Mücke (Character) | - | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rosemary | Nakonski (Character) | - | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Kaiser's Lackey | Diederich (Character) | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet |
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Rotation | Udo Schulze (Character) | - | 1949 |