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Werner Peters
Born: 7th Jul 1918 - Died 30th Mar 1971
Dept: Acting
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Werner Peters (7 July 1918 – 30 March 1971) was a German film actor. He appeared in 102 films between 1947 and 1971.
Peters was born in Werlitzsch, Kreis Delitzsch, Prussian Saxony, and died of a heart attack on a promotion tour for his latest film in Wiesbaden, Germany.
His film career started with the lead in Wolfgang Staudte's Der Untertan, produced in the young German Democratic Republic. Peters then worked in West-Germany, appearing mostly in supporting roles in popular movies. He also established himself in the European and international film industry by frequently playing sinister German or Nazi characters.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 110
Film: 102 (93%)
Television: 8 (7%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Science Fiction, Family, Western, Music, Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Talk, Documentary, Reality
Filmography
Original title: Perrak
1975
Rough-and-ready vice detective Perrak has to follow a 1000 leads during the investigation of a trans murder case. In a profoundly mysterious massage p ... view
Character:
Heinz-Fritz Bottke
Jun 1971 (first aired)
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 ... view
Character:
Otto Bräker (1 ep.)
Original title: Die Tote aus der Themse
1971
An Australian woman arrives in London to search for her sister who she finds is involved with a heroin smuggling gang. The gang itself is under attack ... view
Character:
William Baxter
Original title: L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo
1970
An American writer living in Rome witnesses an attempted murder that is connected to an ongoing killing spree in the city and conducts his own investi ... view
Character:
Antique Dealer
1970
Rival gangs are fighting for control of Hamburg's notorious harbor district, spreading fear and terror in the process. In the streets, houses and club ... view
Character:
Hausach
Original title: Blonde Köder für den Mörder
1969
When private detective Bob Martin looking for a stolen diamond necklace, he also has a clever serial killer on the trail ... ... view
Character:
Charly Hollmann
1969
An art dealer on a special mission is pulled into dangerous intrigue while railway detective Cheval tries to help and pursues criminals on the Istanbu ... view
Character:
Dr. Lenz
Original title: Un killer per sua maestà
1968
Shrewd and evasive ex-Nazi and top assassin Oscar Snell is determined to rub out the King of Kafiristan. Snell's sole weakness is his sweet tooth; he ... view
Character:
Guardino
1968
When 5 allied generals are captured in Italy in WWII, it is a propaganda nightmare for the allies. The generals are all 1 star and refuse to take orde ... view
Character:
Maj. von Steignitz
1968
Philip Scott, the boss of a toy company, is secretly also the chief of a British spy organization. Scott's cover is destroyed when enemy agents kidnap ... view
Character:
Kramer
Original title: Deux billets pour Mexico
1967
A thief gets hold of some top secret papers and is chased around Europe by the sinister Organisation. ... view
Character:
Bardieff
Jul 1967 (first aired)
Dem Täter auf der Spur is a German television series. ... view
Character:
Pierre Morestel (1 ep.)
Charles Buffet (1 ep.)
Original title: Die Zeugin aus der Hölle
1967
Leah Weiss, a Polish Jew, was first forced into prostitution at Auschwitz. Afterwards, she was victimized in medical experiments. Now, twenty years la ... view
Character:
Von Walden
1967
American Mark Jason is stranded in Southeast Asia and works there as a teacher. One day, he finds diamonds worth several million dollars in his apartm ... view
Character:
Charlie Lee
Original title: Die Hölle von Macao
1967
Freelance photographer Cliff Wilder (Robert Stack) finds himself the target of various colorful villains in this quest for an ancient Chinese treasure ... view
Character:
Pinto
1966
During World War II, an American who sympathizes with the Nazi cause defects to Germany, where he is greeted as a hero and given a job broadcasting pr ... view
Character:
Elm
1966
A womanizing poet falls into the hands of a psychiatrist with a straying wife. ... view
Character:
Dr. Freddie Vorbeck
1965
In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent it, Hitler orders an all-out offensive ... view
Character:
Gen. Kohler
Original title: Durchs wilde Kurdistan
1965
After dealing with the Shut in the Balkans, Kara Ben-Nemsi ('Karl the German') receives a firman (precious passport) from the padishah (Ottoman sultan ... view
Character:
Mütesselin
Original title: Die schwarzen Adler von Santa Fe
1965
When Comanches go on the warpath, settlers take refuge in Ft. Eagle Rock commanded by Capt. Jackson. Undercover agent Cliff McPherson arrives at the u ... view
Character:
Morton
1964
Germans kidnap an American major and try to convince him that World War II is over, so that they can get details about the Allied invasion of Europe o ... view
Character:
Otto Schack
Original title: Das siebente Opfer
1964
The son of a British racehorse owner conspires with a bookie to ruin the odds of his father's thoroughbred winning an important event. ... view
Character:
Mysteriöser Partygast
Original title: Tre per una rapina
1964
Gerhard is a young technical in Düsseldorf who works in a factory of security devices for banks. In agreement with Nicola, Mario and Hans, they prepa ... view
Character:
Peter Weimer
Original title: Einer Frisst den Anderen
1964
Three thieves rip off a shipment of used money being sent back to the US. As they are escaping the robbery (after having taken a hostage), they wind u ... view
Character:
Jannis, Xenia's Butler
Original title: Die Gruft mit dem Rätselschloss
1964
Mobsters conspire to loot another criminal's treasure secured in an enormous booby-trapped vault. ... view
Character:
Spedding
Original title: Das Phantom von Soho
1964
A masked killer is stalking and killing Londoners outside a nightclub. ... view
Character:
Dr. Dalmar
Original title: Das Geheimnis der schwarzen Witwe
1963
Someone is killing people related to a South American expedition. The means of murder are poison darts with rubber spiders attached to them. A writer ... view
Character:
William Osbourne
Character:
Frederick Offenbach (1 ep.)
Original title: Scotland Yard jagt Dr. Mabuse
1963
The spirit of the evil Dr. Mabuse takes over the body of a famous professor. The professor/Dr. Mabuse then begins a new crime wave that terrorizes the ... view
Character:
Inspektor Vulpius
Original title: Der schwarze Abt
1963
Several employees on a nobleman's estate show up at a former abbey, reputed to be haunted, to search for a hidden treasure. Howver, a mysterious hoode ... view
Character:
Fabian Gilder
Original title: Die endlose Nacht
1963
Anthology film about a night at airport Berlin-Tempelhof. Due to fog passengers can't leave Berlin by plane and struggle to find other ways out of Ber ... view
Character:
Herbert
Original title: Die weiße Spinne
1963
After an automobile accident, in which a man is unrecognizably burnt to a crisp, his wife's only able to confirm the corpse's identity by his talisman ... view
Character:
Sergeant Meals
Apr 1963 (first aired)
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 tracki ... view
Character:
Kriminalkommissar Walther (1 ep.)
Original title: Der Fluch der gelben Schlange
1963
A Chinese cult bent on taking over the world uses an idol called The Golden Reptile that they believe can give them the power to achieve their goal. ... view
Character:
Stephan Narth
Original title: Ipnosi
1962
Erik, in love with Magda, the fiancée of Georg, his boss, secretly sends her roses every night. ... view
Character:
Original title: Der Teppich des Grauens
1962
Shortly after his return from India, a special agent of the British secret service falls victim to an insidious poisoning in London. Scotland Yard get ... view
Character:
Crayton
Original title: Jeder stirbt für sich allein
1962
In wartime Berlin, a factory foreman, Otto Quangel and his wife, Anna learn that their only son, Paul, has been killed in action in France. In their g ... view
Character:
Kriminalkommissar Escherich
Original title: Die Tür mit den sieben Schlössern
1962
A rich man bequeaths seven keys to seven of his friends, but only one will unlock the door to untold wealth. ... view
Character:
Bertram Cody
1962
Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany. ... view
Character:
Bruno Ulrich
Original title: Die unsichtbaren Krallen des Dr. Mabuse
1962
Strange things happen in a revue theatre. The dancer Maria seems to be hunted by an invisible admirer. When the body of a probable FBI agent is found ... view
Character:
Martin Droste, aka Bobo the Clown
Original title: Es muß nicht immer Kaviar sein
1961
Bank accountant Thomas Lieven is forced to work as a triple agent for the British, the French and the Nazis. ... view
Character:
Zumbusch
Original title: Im Stahlnetz des Dr. Mabuse
1961
The supposedly dead and buried Mabuse returns to his criminal activities, as his longtime foe Police Inspector Lohmann, a dauntless girl reporter, and ... view
Character:
Böhmler
Original title: Unter Ausschluß der Öffentlichkeit
1961
A man is accused of murdering his wife. The state prosecutor assumes he did the deed to spend more time with his lover. But the woman in question says ... view
Character:
François Lacroix
1961
The respected lawyer Jolly Gebhardt is in debt because of his lavish lifestyle and is therefore blackmailed by dubious criminals for embezzlement. ... view
Character:
Vigulla
1960
Scammers in Bundeswehr uniforms fool a future garrison town. ... view
Character:
Willi Sommer, Autogroßhändler
Original title: Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse
1960
A reporter is murdered while driving to his job. The Police are contacted by a clairvoyant who saw the death in a vision, but some dark force is preve ... view
Character:
Hieronymus B. Mistelzweig
Original title: Strafbataillon 999
1960
The film focuses on life in a World War II German penal battalion camp somewhere in Russia. The convicts include a heroic doctor unjustly convicted of ... view
Character:
Hauptfeldwebel Krüll
1960
Unscrupulous girl traders transport unsuspecting blonde girls from a nightclub in Amsterdam to a brothel in Havana. The young journalist Verena Linkma ... view
Character:
Van laan
Original title: La chatte sort ses griffes
1960
France under the Occupation. Executed for treason against the Resistance, Cora, code-named "La Chatte", was left for dead. Recovered and cared for by ... view
Character:
German general
1959
Shortly before the end of the war, SS officer Grohmann sinks several crates of counterfeit English money in Lake Toplitz with his comrade Kopetzky. Th ... view
Character:
Alfred Kopetzsky
Original title: Geheimaktion Schwarze Kapelle
1959
1933 in Germany. The rise of Nazism fears war and some officers, concerned the fate that hostilities would reserve to their country, organize an anti- ... view
Character:
Heinrich Himmler
Original title: Rosen für den Staatsanwalt
1959
April 1945. Because he stole two bars of chocolate, the soldier Rudi is sentenced to death by the court-martial judge Dr. Schramm. Rudi manages to esc ... view
Character:
Otto Kugler
1959
Father and son have the same taste in women, but different tastes in music: both love the beautiful Linda, but while the father leads a successful dan ... view
Character:
(uncredited)
Original title: Kriegsgericht
1959
In this war drama, three Nazi survivors are rescued after their battleship sank. Initially they are given heroes' accolades for their courage, but the ... view
Character:
Brenner, Kriegsgerichtsrat
1959
Adaptation of Hermann Sudermann's novel about the troubled relationship between the strong willed Erdme and her irascible husband Jons in the Lithunia ... view
Character:
Paul Schmidt
Original title: Die feuerrote Baronesse
1959
During the final days of the Second World War, British intelligence sends an agent to Berlin to try to discover the secrets of Nazi Germany's nuclear ... view
Character:
Original title: Romarei, das Mädchen mit den grünen Augen
1958
Clairvoyant gifted Romarei (Carola Kayser) manages to save her childhood friend Lorenz Ophofen from what would have been a fatal accident. Prang, a gr ... view
Character:
Reeder Papas Leonidas
Original title: 13 kleine Esel und der Sonnenhof
1958
Martha Krapp is amazed when her husband Josef suddenly appears at the door. He has rarely been seen in recent years, instead traveling the world and e ... view
Character:
Oberlehrer Karsten
Original title: Unruhige Nacht
1958
1958: during the Russian campaign, a military priest is called upon to assist Private Baranowski, who has been sentenced to death for desertion, on hi ... view
Character:
1958
A fairground in a small town in northern Germany: a young woman named Margret Winter enjoys herself there with a friend. She has 900 D-Mark in her poc ... view
Character:
Kommissar Bergmann
1958
During WWII The German 'Wehrmacht' is heavily under fire after the invasion of Normandy. There are also a lot of women participating in the war, worki ... view
Character:
Stabsarzt im Wehrkreiskommando
1958
After having lost her mother Magdalena was brought up on strict boarding school disciplines. When returning to her father, she is looked after by an e ... view
Character:
Kunsthändler Bogolla
1958
Murder mystery about the disappearance of a boy who has leukaemia following the murder of his mother, which he witnessed. ... view
Character:
Eugen Machon, Buchmacher
1958
A teacher is defamed in an obscene way by an over-excited pupil. ... view
Character:
Kalweit
Original title: Das Mädchen Rosemarie
1958
West Germany in '50s is becoming an economic superpower. In such climate, Rosemarie is just one of many enterpreneurs who wants her piece of new fortu ... view
Character:
Nakonski
Original title: Der Greifer
1958
Otto Friedrich Dennert is a celebrated veteran of the Essen police force. While investigating a series of killings of women he reaches retirement age. ... view
Character:
Mücke
Original title: Lilli – ein Mädchen aus der Großstadt
1958
The frenzied reporter Lilli is just great: she shoots with both hands and lays her opponents with Jiu-Jitsu while the guys fall to the ground with jus ... view
Character:
Pastor Klinker
1958
Germany, end of the 1950s. After his business partner Kleinschmidt fled to the West, Mr. Reichert managed the company they had once founded together i ... view
Character:
Kleinschmidt
Original title: Madeleine und der Legionär
1958
Three Foreign Legionnaires - Luigi, Pat and Kurt - desert during the Algerian war because they have had enough of the inhumane war machine. But their ... view
Character:
Brouillard
1957
Due to a lack of money, Hamburg pub owner Jonny Jensen brings two partners on board. As soon as the contract is finalized, the ex-sea bear is almost s ... view
Character:
Tanne
Original title: Nachts, wenn der Teufel kam
1957
Hamburg, Germany, 1944, during World War II. A serial killer terrorizes the city. When it seems clear that the local police are unable to catch him, f ... view
Character:
Willi Keun
Original title: Spion für Deutschland
1956
The true story of a German agent sent to the USA in 1944 in order to stop the development of the atomic bomb. ... view
Character:
Gefängiswärter Jonny
Original title: Anastasia - Die letzte Zarentochter
1956
In 1920, an unknown 24-year-old woman was fished out of Berlin's Landwehr kanal after a suicide attempt. Since she has no papers and no answers to any ... view
Character:
Amerikanischer Anwalt
Original title: Ernst Thälmann - Führer seiner Klasse
1955
This film is the second of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-fascist Ernst Thälmann. Autumn, 1918 ... view
Character:
Quadde
1955
A striking resemblance between the hairdresser Franz Blume and the famous actor Günther Kolmin leads to a curious mix-up during a vacation in Feuerst ... view
Character:
Franz Blume / Günther Kolmin
1955
Berlin 1849: The democrat Adolf Glasbrenner, known as Brennglas, publishes the political satire magazine "Phosphor" on a shoestring budget. He plans t ... view
Character:
Adolf Glasbrenner
Original title: Der 20. Juli
1955
A disillusioned Wehrmacht officer named Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler on 20 July 1944. ... view
Character:
Oberstleutnant H.
1955
Young, pretty Milli is passionate about winter sports, and of all things, she wins a vacation trip to the Baltic Sea at her company - in summer, of co ... view
Character:
Original title: Der Teufel vom Mühlenberg
1955
This film is set in a medieval mill town in the Harz mountains. The greedy and brutal millman and his accomplices, the castle steward and the mayor, s ... view
Character:
Schulze Bangebös
1954
Five cameramen of the DEFA travel with the trawler ROS 206 to its fishing grounds in the Arctic Ocean. The journey to the grounds takes 5,5 days. Day ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice)
Original title: Ernst Thälmann - Sohn seiner Klasse
1954
This film is the first of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-fascist Ernst Thälmann. In early Nove ... view
Character:
Hauptmann Quadde
Original title: Die Geschichte vom kleinen Muck
1953
An old man living in an oriental city tells the story of his life to a group of kids: He too was once a young boy by the name of Little Muck - much li ... view
Character:
Ramudschin
1953
The film "Die Unbesiegbaren" covers an episode in German history, in which the Bismarck government tried to mitigate the rise of the social-democrat m ... view
Character:
Köppke
1952
France at the time of the Restoration. The young country gentleman Rastignac comes to Paris to study. He takes up residence in a poor boarding house, ... view
Character:
Der junge Taillefer
Original title: Der Untertan
1951
Diederich Heßling is scared of everything and everyone. But as he grows up, he comes to realize that he has to offer his services to the powers-that- ... view
Character:
Diederich Heßling
1951
The friends Jochen and Gerd both work at the fashion boutique "Saxonia", which has only recently designed a new collection. Therefore, Jochen and Gerd ... view
Character:
Hans Obermann
Original title: Der Kahn der fröhlichen Leute
1950
The girl Marianne inherited a motorboat called “Eintracht” from her parents and struggled to get her to drive it with her uncle. There is a row wi ... view
Character:
Hugo
1950
The mechanic Behnke wants to join the Nazi party to secure a good living. However, after his Jewish neighbors have been taken away, he changes his vie ... view
Character:
Udo Schulze
Original title: Der Biberpelz
1949
Mother Wolffen, a washerwoman, is a woman of principle: A poor man must do what he must to get through life, only he mustn't get caught doing it. All ... view
Character:
Eberhard Schulz
Original title: Die Buntkarierten
1949
A moving saga focusing on the women in a family that spans three generations and almost 70 years of German history, from the Wilhelmine period through ... view
Character:
Oberleutnant von der Lohe
Original title: Affaire Blum
1948
Dr. Blum, a Jewish manufacturer, is falsely accused of a murder. Even when the real killer’s identity becomes evident, the state prosecutor refuses ... view
Character:
Egon Konrad
Original title: Zwischen gestern und morgen
1947
A group of people gathers back in the post-war ruins of a luxurious Munich hotel they inhabited at one point or another years before; each trying to c ... view
Character: