Werner Peters

Werner Peters

Nascimento : 1918-07-07, Werlitzsch, Germany

Morte : 1971-03-30

História

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Werner Peters, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Perfil

Werner Peters
Werner Peters

Filmes

Die 1000 Glotzböbbel vom Dr. Mabuse
Hans-Martin Lamparter (archive footage)
Angels of Terror
William Baxter
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 from an unknown rival, who is methodically assassinating them with a shot to the head.
Hard Women
Heinz-Fritz Bottke
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 parlor he meets industrialist wife Claire Imhoff, who knows more about the crime than she wants to admit.
O Pássaro das Plumas de Cristal
Antique Dealer
Sam Dalmas (Tony Musante) é um escritor norte-americano que vive em Roma. Uma noite ele testemunha uma tentativa de assassinato cometida por um misterioso homem vestido de preto. A vítima sobrevive, mas como a polícia não consegue descobrir quem é o serial killer, Sam decide investigar por conta própria.
Unter den Dächern von St. Pauli
Hausach
Death Knocks Twice
Charly Hollmann
When private detective Bob Martin looking for a stolen diamond necklace, he also has a clever serial killer on the trail ...
Spion unter der Haube
Teddy Surkoff
Zehn kleine Negerlein
William Blore
Istanbul Express
Dr. Lenz
An art dealer on a special mission is pulled into dangerous intrigue while railway detective Cheval tries to help and pursues criminals on the Istanbul Express.
Fragestunde
Runge
The Killer Likes Candy
Guardino
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 leaves candy wrappers at the scene of his every crime. It's up to no-nonsense CIA agent Mark Stone to find Snell and stop him before it's too late.
Que Delícia de Guerra
Maj. von Steignitz
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 orders from each other in order to plan an escape. Harry Frigg is a private who has escaped from the guard house dozens of times. He is promoted to Major General and ordered to get the generals out once he is captured. Harry is willing to escape, but then he meets the countess...
Assignment K
Kramer
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 his girlfriend to force him to reveal the identities of his fellow spies.
Dead Run
Bardieff
A thief gets hold of some top secret papers and is chased around Europe by the sinister Organisation.
Witness Out of Hell
Von Walden
Leah Weiss, a Polish Jew, was first forced into prostitution at Auschwitz. Afterwards, she was victimized in medical experiments. Now, twenty years later, German war crimes prosecutors hope she will be their star witness. But can she stand up to the shame, the publicity, and the reliving of those experiences?
Lotosblüten für Miss Quon
Charlie Lee
O Medalhão Chinês
Pinto
Freelance photographer Cliff Wilder (Robert Stack) finds himself the target of various colorful villains in this quest for an ancient Chinese treasure when he accidentally acquires the key to its location, the Peking medallion.
I Deal In Danger
Elm
Compilation of the show Blue Light.
Sublime Loucura
Dr. Freddie Vorbeck
A womanizing poet falls into the hands of a psychiatrist with a straying wife.
Uma Batalha no Inferno
Gen. Kohler
No final da Segunda Guerra, em dezembro de 1944, o comando das Forças Aliadas já comemora o triunfo sobre as combalidas forças nazistas por toda a Europa. Quando remanescentes do quase derrotado exército nazista planejam um ataque surpresa às forças aliadas, que já não contavam mais com nenhuma reação, um experiente oficial americano alerta seus superiores sobre a possibilidade de uma última ofensiva em massa do inimigo. Esse soldado, experiente, porém desacreditado por seus companheiros, tenta convencer seus superiores a tomarem medidas para impedir a ação. Mas não é ouvido com seriedade. Comandados por um coronel obstinado, os alemães provam que ainda têm poder de fogo e são capazes de dar muito trabalho aos aliados.
The Wild Men of Kurdistan
Mütesselin
After dealing with the Shut in the Balkans, Kara Ben-Nemsi ('Karl the German') receives a firman (precious passport) from the padishah (Ottoman sultan) before he continues his travels through Kurdistan. Achmed El Corda, the son of Halef's Hadedhin Beduin tribe's sheik Mohammed Emin, has been captured by the machredsh (Turkish governor) of Mossul for resisting water seizure by his Turkish troops. Kara takes charge of the rescue.
Der Fall Klaus Fuchs
Commander Stevens
Black Eagle of Santa Fe
Morton
When Comanches go on the warpath, settlers take refuge in Ft. Eagle Rock commanded by Capt. Jackson. Undercover agent Cliff McPherson arrives at the undermanned fort to lend advice and support. He learns that the Comanches have been stirred up by local rancher Morton who wants to take control of the oil under the Indians' reservation.
36 Horas
Otto Schack
Neste drama psicológico de guerra, um major do Exército é capturado pelos alemães durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Os alemães tentam fazer uma lavagem cerebral nele para que acredite que a guerra acabou e que ele está seguro em um hospital dos Aliados, de modo que ele possa falar abertamente dos planos da invasão dos Aliados no Dia D.
The Racetrack Murders
Mysteriöser Partygast
The son of a British racehorse owner conspires with a bookie to ruin the odds of his father's thoroughbred winning an important event.
Three for a Robbery
Peter Weimer
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 prepare and carry out a robbery which, however, will have consequences for all of them.
Dog Eat Dog!
Jannis, Xenia's Butler
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 up on an island in a hotel with an apparently crazed manager and a building full of demented residents.
The Curse of the Hidden Vault
Spedding
Mobsters conspire to loot another criminal's treasure secured in an enormous booby-trapped vault.
The Phantom of Soho
Dr. Dalmar
A masked killer is stalking and killing Londoners outside a nightclub.
The Secret of the Black Widow
William Osbourne
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 and some police detectives investigate.
Dr. Mabuse vs. Scotland Yard
Inspektor Vulpius
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 city.
The Black Abbot
Fabian Gilder
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 hooded figure begins killing off those who may have figured out where the treasure is hidden.
The Endless Night
Herbert
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 Berlin.
The White Spider
Sergeant Meals
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: a small, white spider. However, soon, there are more corpses walking around than at a comic con convention and every single one of them was a white spider sitting on or nearby the body.
Das Feuerschiff
Trittel
The Curse of the Yellow Snake
Stephan Narth
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.
Hypnosis
Detective Superintendent
Erik, the hypnotist Georg's assistant, is in love with Magda, Georg's fiancée, and secretly sends her roses every night. Chris, the guy delivering the flowers, who is also an amateur boxer down on his luck, takes advantage of the empty dressing room to steal the trio's bankroll, but he is caught by Georg, who is knocked out by Chris during a brief struggle.
The Carpet of Horror
Crayton
An evil genius uses poison gas to avenge himself on his enemies.
Jeder stirbt für sich allein
Kriminalkommissar Escherich
The Door with Seven Locks
Bertram Cody
A rich man bequeaths seven keys to seven of his friends, but only one will unlock the door to untold wealth.
O Falso Traidor
Bruno Ulrich
Holden interpreta um executivo sueco, Erick Ericksson, de origem americana que, aceitando ser agente duplo para os Aliados, finge-se de simpatizante dos nazistas visando ganhar-lhes a confiança e ter livre acesso à Alemanha, para onde viaja rotineiramente a pretexto de fazer negócios. Manifestando publicamente sua simpatia pelo nazismo, Erick acaba por ver-se abandonado pela família e hostilizado pelos amigos que se afastam dele devido a suas 'convicções fascista'. Na Alemanha, seu contato é uma mulher de família tradicional, católica, Marianne Möllendorf (Palmer), esposa de um oficial alemão, e ambos simulam ser amantes para se encontrar num apartamento e trocar informações. Com o tempo, eles realmente acabam por se apaixonar, mas os nazistas desconfiam e passam a segui-los. Em crise emocional porque suas informações permitiram aos Aliados bombardear uma região onde foram atingidas e mortas muitas crianças, Marianne vai-se confessar com um padre que, em verdade, é agente da Gestapo.
The Invisible Dr. Mabuse
Martin Droste, aka Bobo the Clown
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 in a trunk the police asks FBI man Joe Como for help. Como gets interested in the revue theatre and an ominous transport firm soon. When he is receiving mysterious threatening letters he is sure that Dr. Mabuse has risen again. But what is going on at "Enterprise X" so that both the goverment and the mad genius in crime are interested in it?
Auf Wiedersehen
Paul Blümel
Operation Caviar
Zumbusch
Bank accountant Thomas Lieven is forced to work as a triple agent for the British, the French and the Nazis.
Blind Justice
François Lacroix
Denn das Weib ist schwach
Vigulla
The Return of Dr. Mabuse
Böhmler
The supposedly dead and buried Mabuse returns to his criminal activities, as his longtime foe Police Inspector Lohmann, a dauntless girl reporter, and an American - who may be an FBI agent, or maybe a Chicago mobster - investigate a series of gruesome murders connected to a maximum security prison and involving a minister who has written a book called "The Anatomy Of The Devil".
Der Hauptmann von Köpenick
Obermüller
Hauptmann - deine Sterne
Willi Sommer, Autogroßhändler
The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
Hieronymus B. Mistelzweig
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 preventing him from seeing the man behind the crime...
Ein Herz braucht Liebe
Punishment Battalion
Hauptfeldwebel Krüll
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 avoiding military service, an officer who retreated against orders, and common criminals. It shows their life in the camp, clearing mines, living in trenches on the front line.
Endstation Rote Laterne
Van laan
Unscrupulous girl traders transport unsuspecting blonde girls from a nightclub in Amsterdam to a brothel in Havana. The young journalist Verena Linkmann wants to expose the slave trade, disguises herself as an available dancer.
Der Schatz vom Toplitzsee
Alfred Kopetzsky
The Black Chapel
Heinrich Himmler
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-Nazi group. They send a reporter, Golder, to communicate the plan of the German offensive allies.
Roses for the Prosecutor
Otto Kugler
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 escape from the firing squad at the last minute, and since the end of the war has been making a meager living as a street peddler. Years later, Dr. Schramm is now a respected public prosecutor. By chance, he runs into Rudi one day on the street. Afraid that Rudi will blow the whistle on him, Dr. Schramm wants to scare him out of town. He has Rudi arrested and bullied by the police.
Bobby Dodd intervenes
Sydows Prokurist
Court Martial
Brenner, Kriegsgerichtsrat
In this war drama, three Nazi survivors are rescued after their battleship sank. Initially they are given heroes' accolades for their courage, but then it becomes apparent that these men actually jumped ship three hours before the boat sank. The men are tried and subsequently executed.
Jons und Erdme
Paul Schmidt
Adaptation of Hermann Sudermann's novel about the troubled relationship between the strong willed Erdme and her irascible husband Jons in the Lithunian moors.
The Scarlet Baroness
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 weapons program.
Romarei, das Mädchen mit den grünen Augen
Reeder Papas Leonidas
13 Little Donkeys and the Sun Court
Oberlehrer Karsten
The Restless Night
Der Tod auf dem Rummelplatz
Kommissar Bergmann
Lightning girls to the front
Stabsarzt im Wehrkreiskommando
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, working at the front line as couriers for the air force. In this war, everyday, they put their lives on the line.
Liebe kann wie Gift sein
Kunsthändler Bogolla
Grabenplatz 17
Eugen Machon, Buchmacher
Murder mystery about the disappearance of a boy who has leukaemia following the murder of his mother, which he witnessed.
Schmutziger Engel
Kalweit
Rosemary
Nakonski
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 fortune. She uses her charms to bring members of West German industrial elite to her bed. There she finds business secrets and later sells them to French competition. However, when scandal errupts, Rosemarie would find that she can't beat the system.
The Copper
Mücke
Otto Friedrich Dennert is a celebrated veteran of the Essen police force. While investigating a series of killings of women he reaches retirement age. The case is taken over by a new team, including Dennert's son Harry. Convinced that they have arrested the wrong person, Dennert begins investigating by himself with assistance from the criminal underworld.
Lilli, a Girl From the Big City
Pastor Klinker
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 just one look from her! Now she is to attend a missionary convention in Sicily. Nothing special? The apparently routine job develops into a murder case...
Visit from the zone
Kleinschmidt
Madeleine und der Legionär
Brouillard
Das Herz von St. Pauli
Tanne
The Devil Strikes at Night
Willi Keun
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, forces as dark and terrible as the criminal himself become involved in the case.
Os Espiões Também Amam
Gefängiswärter Jonny
The true story of a German agent sent to the USA in 1944 in order to stop the development of the atomic bomb.
Die Stimme der Sehnsucht
Manager Pannecke
Anastasia: the Czar's Last Daughter
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 questions, they soon assign them to the insane asylum Dallendorf. A co-patient believes she recognizes the Czar's daughter Anastasia Romanowa - who apparently was the only one who survived the murder of the tsar's family in 1918.
Das Sonntagskind
Mölfes
Ernst Thälmann – Leader of the Working Class
Quadde
This film is the second of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-fascist Ernst Thälmann. Autumn, 1918: Somewhere on Germany’s western front, Ernst Thälmann, age twenty-four, is calling on his fellow soldiers to put down their guns and join him in the communist struggle at home. When Hamburg’s Police Commissioner blocks a much-needed food shipment to the workers of Petrograd, Ernst battles to see it allowed through. Until his murder on August 18, 1944, Ernst remained true to his political convictions in the face of many setbacks.
Vor Gott und den Menschen
Anton Mechala
Star mit fremden Federn
Franz Blume / Günther Kolmin
Hotel Adlon
Kulikowski
Ein Polterabend
Adolf Glasbrenner
The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
Oberstleutnant H.
A disillusioned Wehrmacht officer named Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler on 20 July 1944.
Sommerliebe
Der Teufel vom Mühlenberg
Schulze Bangebös
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, set fire to a forest mill that the farmers used for processing their grain. Without their mill, the farmers must now rely on the millman's services. When the farmhand Anna uncovers the millman’s crimes, he swiftly detains her and a young miller, Jörg. The forest spirits have a different plan, however, and they free the young couple with the charge to rebuild the ruined forest mill and turn things around for the villagers.
Vom Alex zum Eismeer
Narrator (voice)
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 and night the nets are thrown out and pulled aboard again when they are full. After three weeks of hard work the trawler returns to its home port. Here the fish are loaded into refrigerator cars, and the sailors enjoy some days of wll-earned rest.
Ernst Thälmann – Son of the Working Class
Hauptmann Quadde
This film is the first of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-fascist Ernst Thälmann. In early November 1918, Ernst Thälmann is an unwilling soldier serving on the western front. As the revolutionary movement at home is threatened by the betrayal of the Social Democrats and fissures in the working class, Thälmann calls on his fellow soldiers to put down their weapons and unite with the workers in the communist struggle at home. Thälmann’s qualms about which side he is fighting on continue, but when the local police attempt to prevent a shipment of provisions and supplies from reaching the people in Petrograd, he intervenes and the ship is unloaded. With this moment of clarity, Thälmann continues to follow his political convictions and joins the workers at the Hamburg uprising in October 1923.
The Story of Little Mook
Unterster Ramudschin
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 like them, but with better manners and a heap of problems. Having lost his father at early age, little Muck is expelled from home by his greedy relatives. He wanders off into the desert hoping to find the merchant who sells good fortune. Amidst the dunes of sand he comes across a small house owned by a wicked woman and her many cats. She wants to make Little Muck her servant, but he manages to escape by stealing a pair of magic shoes which enable him to run faster than any man in the country. From there he heads right into the next set of challenges...
Die Unbesiegbaren
Köppke
The film "Die Unbesiegbaren" covers an episode in German history, in which the Bismarck government tried to mitigate the rise of the social-democrat movement.
Anna Susanna
Kuddel
Karriere in Paris
Der junge Taillefer
The Kaiser's Lackey
Diederich Heßling
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-be if he wants to wield power himself. His life motto now runs: bow to those at the top and tread on those below. In this way, he always succeeds: as a student in a duel-fighting student fraternity and as a businessman in a paper factory. He cajoles the obese district administrative president Von Wulkow and wins his favor. He slanders his financial rivals and hatches a plot with the social democrats in the town council. On his honeymoon with his rich wife Guste, he finally finds a chance to do his beloved Kaiser a favor. And when a memorial to the Kaiser is unveiled in the town where Diederich lives and works, he delivers the address. He stands behind the lectern in the pouring rain, saluting his Kaiser. The crowd is dispersed. Everything is laid in ruins...
Modell Bianka
Hans Obermann
The friends Jochen and Gerd both work at the fashion boutique "Saxonia", which has only recently designed a new collection. Therefore, Jochen and Gerd are shocked when they meet two young ladies during their well-deserved holiday who are already dressed in two of the new pieces. And as if that was not enough, they pass the creations off as their own, even though they are employed at the competing company "Berolina". Naturally, the two men refuse to let the matter rest, although they do not actually want to raise a quarrel with the pretty ladies. After some turbulent entanglements they become aware of the foolishness of their squabbling and, eventually, the four of them present the disputed designs as a co-production at the fashion fair in Leipzig.
Der Kahn der fröhlichen Leute
Hugo
The Beaver Coat
Eberhard Schulz
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 sorts of crooked deals contribute to the improvement of the daily menu and the increase of household funds. When everyone is searching for pensioner Krueger's missing beaverskin coat, Mother Wolffen and her family are calmly enjoying fresh roast venison.
Rotation
Udo Schulze
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 views. Trying to remain "a non-political man," he withdraws from reality and becomes a Nazis laborer.
Girls in Gingham
Oberleutnant von der Lohe
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 the end of WWII. This film shows that it takes a combination of hard work, political consciousness and family work in tandem to face the tragedies of war, economic hardship and death.
The Blum Affair
Egon Konrad
Dr. Blum, a Jewish manufacturer, is falsely accused of a murder. Even when the real killer’s identity becomes evident, the state prosecutor refuses to accept Blum’s innocence.
Between Yesterday and Tomorrow
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 cope with the tragic consequences of the war and their own actions.