Heinz Weiss

Actor

June 12, 1921 (89 years)

† November 20, 2010

Stuttgart; Germany

Biography

Heinz Weiss (12 June 1921 – 20 November 2010) was a German film actor. Weiss is best known for playing the role of Phil Decker in the Jerry Cotton series of films and the role of Captain Heinz Hansen in Das Traumschiff. He also played the character "Kramer" in the iconic World War II film The Great Escape (1963). He himself had served in German military, the Wehrmacht, during World War II. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Filmography

6.2

Scene of the Crime

Georg Kastrup

Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

5.0

Das Traumschiff

Mr. Hansen

The series is about a cruise ship that travels to places around the world.

6.6

Die Schwarzwaldklinik

Baden-Württembergs Ministerpräsident

The Black Forest Clinic is a German language medical drama television series that was produced by and filmed in West Germany. The series was produced between 1984 and 1988 with the original airing being from October 2, 1985 to March 25, 1989 on West Germany's ZDF television channel. The series' storyline follows the inner workings of a small fictional hospital in the Black Forest region of Germany as well as the lives of the Brinkmann family of doctors who work at the hospital. Shortly after broadcasting had begun in 1985, The Black Forest Clinic became a highly popular television event, reaching audiences of over 20 million viewers. 25 years since its debut, it is still highly regarded in Germany. The series had been re-broadcast several times since 1985 and has spawned two television films released 20 years after its initial airing.

8.0

Das Kriminalmuseum

Kommissar Widmann

Das Kriminalmuseum was a German television series. It ran from 1963 to 1970 on ZDF and was one of its first programs. Each episode began with a tracking shot through an unspecified crime museum, stopping at one of the displays, whose story was then told. Each episode was between 60 and 75 minutes long and featured different actors as the criminal commissioner. The best known was Erik Ode, who in 1969 moved to Der Kommissar, appearing in 97 episodes. The theme music of the series was written by German composer Martin Böttcher, who also composed the complete scores for five episodes.

7.3

The Winds of War

Heinz Guderian

Against the backdrop of world events that led to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Victor 'Pug' Henry is a career naval officer who, along with his family, learns to navigate the waters of his dangerous times in the late 1930s.

7.9

The Great Escape

Kramer

The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true story.

7.9

Peter the Great

Austrian Doctor

Peter the Great is a 1986 NBC television mini-series starring Maximilian Schell as Russian emperor Peter the Great, and based on the biography by Robert K. Massie. It won three Primetime Emmy Awards, including the award for Outstanding Miniseries.

8.0

Die fünfte Kolonne

Lehmann

Die fünfte Kolonne is a German television series.

6.2

Christopher Columbus

Noscomb

After his proposal to sail west to the East Indies is rejected by Portugal, Columbus overcomes court intrigue in Spain to gain support for his expedition.

10.0

Graf Luckner

Kapitän Luckner

Between the first and second World Wars, we portray glorified and renown naval sea officer Felix Graf von Lucker and his fictitious ship Niobe, which is the 1887 built Amphitrite from Southampton. Von Luckner is famous for his tactical genius in the first World War, especially sinking 14 enemy ships and only losing one crewman, whilst always seeking a peaceful outcome - making him the ideal seaman.

8.5

Immenhof

Peter 'PS' Stahl

Immenhof is a German television series.

8.0

Jerry Cotton: Death and Diamonds

Phil Decker

Sixth part of Jerry Cotton movies. Agent Jerry Cotton infiltrates a big crime syndicate that is planning a major diamond heist.

7.0

As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me

Clemens Forell

A prisoner of war is sentenced to 25 years in the Soviet Union. His escape from the Soviet gulag takes him through the intense and hopeless terrain of Siberia.

9.0

Die Protokolle des Herrn M

Schröder

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6.8

Des Christoffel von Grimmelshausen abenteuerlicher Simplizissimus

Zullewitz

The boy Simplizissimus grows up with simple farmers in the Spessart region. But the idyll is abruptly destroyed by the Thirty Years' War. Simplizissimus is sent to the besieged fortress of Hanau. When the lansquenets there play crude jokes on him, he flees with his friend Herzbruder to the Croats. But even here he does not fare much better.

4.4

Confused Feelings

M. Keller

It is the story of a middle age professor who falls deaply in love with a young student in his English literature class. The student is a boarder in the teacher's house. The teacher is married and his wife knows he is mostly attracted to young men. She loves him nevertheless. The whole story revolves around a book the professor will write, dictating to his young pupil... he will only declare his love at the end of the writing ...and, it is too late.

5.0

Die merkwürdige Lebensgeschichte des Friedrich Freiherrn von der Trenck

Herzog von Württemberg

Die merkwürdige Lebensgeschichte des Friedrich Freiherrn von der Trenck is a German television series.

5.6

The Little Drummer Girl

Red Cross

An American Actress with a penchant for lying is forceably recruited by Mosad, the Israeli intelligence agency to trap a Palestinian bomber, by pretending to be the girlfriend of his dead brother.

6.0

Die unfreiwilligen Reisen des Moritz August Benjowski

Crustiew

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8.0

Der Staudamm

Inspektor

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