Wolf Frees, also credited as Wolfgang Müller-Frees, (8 October 1909 – 1974) was a German actor from
Potsdam
Potsdam () is the capital and, with around 183,000 inhabitants, largest city of the German state of Brandenburg. It is part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. Potsdam sits on the River Havel, a tributary of the Elbe, downstream of B ...
who worked in the British film industry. Frees left Germany in the mid-1930s as his wife was Jewish and persecuted by the Nazis.
[Frithjof Trapp et al. (Hrsg.): Handbuch des deutschsprachigen Exiltheaters 1933-1945. K.G. Saur Verlag, München 1999, .] In films he usually played German military men. He had roles in ''
The Guns of Navarone'' (1961), ''
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
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Revelation 6 tells of a book or scroll in God's right hand tha ...
'' (1962),
Dr. Zhivago
''Doctor Zhivago'' is the title of a novel by Boris Pasternak and its various adaptations.
Description
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Yuri Andreievich Zhivago is the ...
(1965) and
The Saint
The Saint may refer to:
Fiction
* Simon Templar, also known as "The Saint", the protagonist of a book series by Leslie Charteris and subsequent adaptations:
** ''The Saint'' (film series) (1938–43), starring Louis Hayward, George Sanders an ...
TV series in the 1960s. His last acting credit dates to 1971.
Filmography
References
External links
Wolf FreesKinotv)
1909 births
1974 deaths
German male film actors
German male television actors
People from Potsdam
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