Werner Peters

Werner Peters (7 July 1918 – 30 March 1971) was a German film actor. He appeared in 102 films between 1947 and 1971.

Biography

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.

Peters appeared in two episodes of the 1966 American television espionage drama ''Blue Light''. These were edited together with two other episodes to create the theatrical film ''I Deal in Danger'', released in December 1966, which included his role.

Selected filmography

* ''The Beaver Coat'' (1949), as Eberhard Schulz
* ''Der Kahn der fröhlichen Leute'' (1950), as Hugo
* ''Der Untertan'' (1951), as Diederich Hessling
* ''Anna Susanna'' (1953), as Kuddel
* ''Ernst Thälmann'' (1954), as Gottlieb Quadde
* ''Before God and Man'' (1955), as Anton Mechala
* ''The Devil Strikes at Night'' (1957), as Willi Keun
* '' The Heart of St. Pauli'' (1957), as Tanne
* '' Escape from Sahara'' (1958), as Brouillard
* ' (1958, TV film), as Kleinschmidt
* '' The Copper'' (1958), as Mücke
* ''Rosemary'' (1958), as Franz Josef Nagonski
* ' (1958), as Eugen Machon
* '' Restless Night'' (1958), as Maj. Kartuschke
* ''Thirteen Old Donkeys'' (1958), as Oberlehrer Kasten
* ''Court Martial'' (1959), as Kriegsgerichtsrat Brenner
* ''The Black Chapel'' (1959), as Heinrich Himmler
* ' (1959), as Alfred Kopetzsky
* ' (1960), as Hauptfeldwebel Krüll
* ''The Cat Shows Her Claws'' (1960), as German General
* ''Roses for the Prosecutor'' (1960), as Otto Kugler
* ''The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse'' (1960), as Hieronymus B. Mistelzweig
* '' Auf Wiedersehen'' (1961), as Paul Blümel
* ''The Return of Doctor Mabuse'' (1961), as Böhmler
* '' Blind Justice'' (1961), as François Lacroix
* ' (1961), as Zumbusch
* ' (1962), as Martin Droste / Bobo the Clown
* ''The Counterfeit Traitor'' (1962), as Bruno Ulrich
* '' The Door with Seven Locks'' (1962), as Bertram Cody
* '' Jeder stirbt für sich allein'' (1962, TV film), as Kriminalkommissar Escherich
* ' (1963), as Herbert
* '' The Black Abbot'' (1963), as Fabian Gilder
* ''Scotland Yard Hunts Dr. Mabuse'' (1963), as Inspektor Vulpius
* ''The Lightship'' (1963), as Trittel
* ''The White Spider'' (1963), as Sergeant Meals
* ''The Secret of the Black Widow'' (1963), as Mr. Shor
*'' The Curse of the Yellow Snake'' (1963), as Stephan Narth
* '' The Curse of the Hidden Vault'' (1964), as Spedding
* ''The Seventh Victim'' (1964), as Mysterious man
* '' Dog Eat Dog'' (1964), as Jannis, the butler
* ''The Phantom of Soho'' (1964), as Dr. Dalmer
* '' 36 Hours'' (1965), as SS-Standartenführer Otto Schack
* '' Black Eagle of Santa Fe'' (1965), as Morton
* ''Battle of the Bulge'' (1965), as Gen. Kohler
* ' (1966), as von Walden
* ''A Fine Madness'' (1966), as Dr. Vorbeck
* ''I Deal in Danger'' (1966), as Gestapo Captain Elm
* ''The Peking Medallion'' (1967), as Inspector Pinto
* ''Dead Run'' (1967), as Bardieff
* ''Lotus Flowers for Miss Quon'' (1967), as Charlie Lee
* ''Assignment K'' (1968), as Kramer
* ''The Secret War of Harry Frigg'' (1968), as Maj. von Steignitz
* ' (1968), as Dr. Lenz
* ''The Killer Likes Candy'' (1968), as Guardino
* ''Death Knocks Twice'' (1969), as Charly Hollmann
* ''The Bird with the Crystal Plumage'' (1970), as Antique Dealer
* '' Under the Roofs of St. Pauli'' (1970), as Hausach, "King of St. Pauli"
* ' (1970), as Heinz-Fritz Bottke
* ''The Body in the Thames'' (1971), as William Baxter

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1918 births
1971 deaths
People from Nordsachsen
People from the Province of Saxony
German male film actors
German male television actors
20th-century German male actors
Recipients of the National Prize of East Germany