Wolf Kahler (born 3 April 1940) is a German stage, film, television, and voice actor. Since 1975, he appeared in many English language US and UK television and film productions. One of his early roles was

Kaiser Wilhelm II Wilhelm II (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert; 27 January 18594 June 1941) was the last German Emperor (german: Kaiser) and List of monarchs of Prussia, King of Prussia, reigning from 15 June 1888 until Abdication of Wilhelm II, his abdication on 9 ...

in Michael York's adventure film '' The Riddle of the Sands''. One of his most well-known roles was that of Herman Dietrich in ''

Raiders of the Lost Ark ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' is a 1981 American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Lawrence Kasdan, based on a story by George Lucas and Philip Kaufman. It stars Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, Ronal ...

''. His voice also appeared in video games including as Kaiser Vlad in ''

Battalion Wars ''Battalion Wars'', released as in Japan, is a 2005 real-time tactics game developed by Kuju London and published by Nintendo for the GameCube. The player controls a vast array of units ranging from infantry, armoured divisions and aircraft, co ...

''. Kahler played the Prince of Tübingen in

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's 1975 film, ''

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''. In 2001, he portrayed a

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General in the

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TV miniseries, '' Band of Brothers''. In the 1982

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spy thriller '' Firefox'', he played KGB chairman

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. In 2011 Kahler appeared as Dr. Hoffmanstahl in '' Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows''. In 2017, he appeared as a German Commander in the Warner Bros./DCEU film ''

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''.

Filmography

Film

* 1975 ''

'' as Prince of Tübingen'' * 1976 '' The Eagle Has Landed'' as SS Hauptsturmführer Fleischer (uncredited) * 1977 '' March or Die'' as First German * 1978 ''

Force 10 from Navarone ''Force 10 from Navarone'' is a World War II novel by Scottish author Alistair MacLean. It serves as a sequel to MacLean's 1957 '' The Guns of Navarone'', but follows the events of the 1961 film adaptation of the same name. It features vari ...

'' as German Soldier At Supply Dump * 1978 '' The Boys from Brazil'' as Schwimmer * 1979 '' The Riddle of the Sands'' as

* 1979 ''

The Lady Vanishes ''The Lady Vanishes'' is a 1938 British mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave. Written by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder, based on the 1936 novel ''The Wheel Spins'' by Ethel Lina ...

'' as Helmut von Reider * 1980 '' Rough Cut'' as De Gooyer * 1980 '' The Sea Wolves'' as Trompeta * 1981 ''At the Fountainhead'' as Wolfgang Leonhard * 1981 ''

'' as Colonel Hermann Dietrich * 1981 ''

Priest of Love ''Priest of Love'' is a British biographical film about D. H. Lawrence and his wife Frieda (née Von Richthofen) played by Ian McKellen and Janet Suzman. It was a Stanley J. Seeger presentation, produced and directed by Christopher Miles and ...

'' as German Officer * 1982 '' Firefox'' as

KGB The KGB (russian: links=no, lit=Committee for State Security, Комитет государственной безопасности (КГБ), a=ru-KGB.ogg, p=kəmʲɪˈtʲet ɡəsʊˈdarstvʲɪn(ː)əj bʲɪzɐˈpasnəsʲtʲɪ, Komitet gosud ...

Chairman Andropov * 1982 '' Remembrance'' as Dutch Matelot * 1983 '' High Road to China'' as Von Hess * 1983 '' Ascendancy'' as Muller * 1983 '' The Keep'' as SS Adjutant * 1985 ''

A Zed & Two Noughts ''A Zed & Two Noughts'' is a 1985 film written and directed by Peter Greenaway. This film was Greenaway's first collaboration with cinematographer Sacha Vierny, who went on to shoot virtually all of Greenaway's work in the 1980s and 1990s, until ...

'' as Felipe Arc-en-Ciel * 1988 '' The Bourne Identity'' as Gold Glasses * 1992 '' Shining Through'' as Border Commandant * 1993 '' The Remains of the Day'' as German Ambassador * 1994 '' Backbeat'' as

Bert Kaempfert Bert Kaempfert (born Berthold Heinrich Kämpfert; 16 October 1923 – 21 June 1980) was a German orchestra leader, multi-instrumentalist, music producer, arranger, and composer. He made easy listening and jazz-oriented records and wrote the musi ...

* 1996 '' Loch Ness'' as Dr. Muller * 1997 ''

Firelight ''Firelight'' is a 1997 period romance film written and directed by William Nicholson and starring Sophie Marceau and Stephen Dillane. Written by William Nicholson, the film is about a woman who agrees to bear the child of an anonymous English ...

'' as Sussman * 2000 ''

Britannic Britannic means 'of Britain' or 'British', from the Roman name for the British. Britannic may also refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Britannic'' (film), a 2000 film based on the story of HMHS ''Britannic'' * SS ''Britannic'', a fictional ...

'' as Captain Kruger * 2001 '' The Lost Battalion'' as General Von Sybel * 2001 '' Charlotte Gray'' as Oberleutenant Lindermann * 2004 '' Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason'' as Commentator * 2010 ''

Shanghai Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flow ...

'' as German Consul * 2011 '' Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows'' as Dr. Hoffmanstahl * 2012 ''Full Firearms'' as Adam * 2012 ''

Cockneys vs Zombies ''Cockneys vs Zombies'' is a 2012 British zombie comedy film directed by Matthias Hoene and written by James Moran and Lucas Roche. The plot centres on a group of Cockneys who arm themselves to rescue their grandfather and his friends from their r ...

'' as Nazi Officer * 2017 ''

'' as German Commander * 2017 '' Damascus Cover'' as Colonel Ludwig Streicher

Short films

* 2008 ''

Haber Haber is a surname of German origin. The meaning in old German is "oat". The cereal is now in German called . Notable people with this surname include: * Alan Haber, American student activist * Alessandro Haber, Italian actor, director, and singer ...

'' as

Erich Ludendorff Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff (9 April 1865 – 20 December 1937) was a German general, politician and military theorist. He achieved fame during World War I for his central role in the German victories at Liège and Tannenberg in 1914. ...

* 2010 ''Stasi Dog'' as The Narrator * 2012 ''Cold Warrior'' as Bochinsky * 2016 ''Millefeuille'' as Hans-Peter (Opa) * 2016 ''Rubicon'' as Dirk Van de Cleef * 2020 ''Cognition'' as Dr. Zoger

Television

* 1980 ''Don Siegel: Last of the Independents'' as Himself * 1980 ''

The Sandbaggers ''The Sandbaggers'' is a British spy drama television series about men and women on the front lines of the Cold War. Set contemporaneously with its original broadcast on ITV in 1978 and 1980, ''The Sandbaggers'' examines the effect of espionage ...

'' as Lincke * 1982 ''

The Secret Adversary ''The Secret Adversary'' is the second published detective fiction novel by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in January 1922 in the United Kingdom by The Bodley Head and in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company later in th ...

'' as The German * 1982 ''Hess'' as

Rudolf Hess Rudolf Walter Richard Hess (Heß in German; 26 April 1894 – 17 August 1987) was a German politician and a leading member of the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany. Appointed Deputy Führer to Adolf Hitler in 1933, Hess held that position unt ...

* 1984 '' The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'' as King of

Bohemia Bohemia ( ; cs, Čechy ; ; hsb, Čěska; szl, Czechy) is the westernmost and largest historical region of the Czech Republic. Bohemia can also refer to a wider area consisting of the historical Lands of the Bohemian Crown ruled by the Bohem ...

* 1985 ''

Space Space is the boundless three-dimensional extent in which objects and events have relative position and direction. In classical physics, physical space is often conceived in three linear dimensions, although modern physicists usually consider ...

'' as Funkhauser * 1985 '' The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission'' as General Sepp Dietrich * 1987 '' The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission'' as Colonel Krieger * 1987 ''

A Perfect Spy ''A Perfect Spy'' (1986) is a novel by British author John le Carré about the mental and moral dissolution of a high-level intelligence-officer. Major aspects of the novel are lifted from the real life of the author, including the relationsh ...

'' as Lieutenant Dollendorf * 1988 '' War and Remembrance'' as SS Major Anton Burger * 1992 '' The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles'' as German Second At Duel * 1993 '' Soldier Soldier'' as Dr. Heller * 1999 ''

Kavanagh QC ''Kavanagh QC'' is a British television series made by Central Television for ITV between 1995 and 2001. All five series are available on DVD in both Region 1 and Region 2. Plot The series starred John Thaw as barrister James Kavanagh QC, wh ...

'' as Dieter Klausen * 2000 '' Dalziel and Pascoe'' as Jurgen Falke * 2001 '' Band of Brothers'' as German General * 2001 '' Red Cap'' as General Joachim Ulmke * 2004 ''

London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...

'' as German Traveller * 2005 ''

The Girl in the Café ''The Girl in the Café'' is a British made-for-television drama film directed by David Yates, written by Richard Curtis and produced by Hilary Bevan Jones. The film is produced by the independent production company Tightrope Pictures and was o ...

'' (TV) as Herr Gerhardt * 2006 ''

The Somme - From Defeat to Victory ''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the m ...

'' as General Hans von Plessen * 2008 ''

George Gently George may refer to: People * George (given name) * George (surname) * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Washington, First President of the United States * George W. Bush, 43rd President ...

– Bomber's Moon'' as Gunter Schmeikel * 2014 '' Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond'' as Admiral Brandel * 2019 '' BBC Look North (Yorkshire and North Midlands)'' as Himself

Video games

* 1998 '' Metal Gear Solid'' as Donald Anderson / Revolver Ocelot / Jim Houseman (German dub) * 1999 '' Syphon Filter'' as Thomas Markinson (German dub) * 2003 '' Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness'' as Grant Muller * 2004 '' Half-Life 2'' as Dr. Wallace Breen (German dub) * 2005 ''

'' as Kaiser Vlad * 2007 ''

Battalion Wars 2 ''Battalion Wars 2'', released as in Japan, is a 2007 real-time tactics game developed by Kuju London and published by Nintendo for the Wii. It is the sequel to '' Battalion Wars'' (2005), in which players take command of a battalion of troop ...

'' as Kaiser Vlad / Lord Ferrok * 2008 '' The Club'' as Enemy Characters * 2009 '' IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey'' as German Voice * 2010 ''

Kirby's Epic Yarn ''Kirby's Epic Yarn'' is a platform video game developed by Good-Feel and published by Nintendo for the Wii. It is an installment of the ''Kirby'' series and was released in October 2010 in Japan and North America and in February 2011 in Austral ...

'' as The Narrator (German Version) * 2011 '' Crysis 2'' as Karl Ernst Rasch (German & English dub) * 2013 ''

Crysis 3 ''Crysis 3'' is a 2013 first-person shooter video game developed by Crytek and published by Electronic Arts. It is the third game of the ''Crysis'' series, a sequel to the 2011 video game ''Crysis 2''. The multiplayer portion of the game was d ...

'' as Karl Ernst Rasch (German & English dub) * 2013 '' Company of Heroes 2'' as German Announcer * 2015 '' Calvino Noir'' as Arno * 2017 '' Raid: World War II'' as Dr. Maximillion Reihnhart * 2018 '' Call of Cthulhu: The Official Video Game'' as Thomas Fuller * 2019 '' Close to the Sun'' as Aubrey King

Thanks

* 2012 ''Raiding the Lost Ark: A Filmumentary'' (special thanks)

Soundtrack

* 2008 ''

Inspector George Gently ''Inspector George Gently'' (also known as ''George Gently'' for the pilot and first series) is a 2008 British television crime drama series produced by Company Pictures for BBC One, set in the 1960s and loosely based on some of the Inspector G ...

'' (performer: The Lambton Worm Song - Episode: "Bomber's Moon")

Radio

''The Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican'' was first broadcast in 2006 on BBC Radio4. He played Herbert Kappler. This was a drama by

Robin Glendinning Robert James Glendinning (born 1 September 1938), known as Robin Glendinning, is a Northern Irish playwright and former politician. Born in Belfast, the brother of Will Glendinning,John Stanley Bull, ''British and Irish dramatists since World W ...

: a Nazi war criminal is befriended by a Vatican priest in his cell, based on the real-life adventures of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kahler, Wolf Male actors from Berlin German male stage actors German male film actors German male television actors 20th-century German male actors 21st-century German male actors Living people 1940 births Expatriates in England