Werner Dissel
Werner Friedrich Dissel (26 August 1912 – 22 January 2003) was a German actor, director, and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime.
Dissel's began working as a newspaper photographer in the late 1920s. After the Nazis' rise to power, he became a member of an antifascist group headed by Harro Schulze-Boysen, and was involved in the resistance newspaper Wille zum Reich. Dissel was caught and imprisoned from 1937 to 1939. During his time in prison, the Gestapo arranged for Boysen to visit him, in the hope that something incriminating would be said while the two would be left alone in a tapped room; Boysen passed a cigarette pack to Dissel, on which he wrote that the police had no concrete evidence against him. After his release, Boysen convinced him to volunteer into the Wehrmacht, so he could "destroy Hitler's army from within". Dissel joined the armed forces shortly before the German Invasion of Poland, and served in a military meteorology unit. At 1942, he barely avoided an arrest during the Gestapo's crackdown on the Red Orchestra.
After the war, he openly joined the KPD and decided to pursue his old dream to become an actor. Dissel joined a cabaret in Wiesbaden, and in 1950 emigrated to East Germany. There he appeared in numerous plays, TV shows and movies. He worked with the Berliner Ensemble, DEFA and DFF. He continued his acting career after the reunification. In total, he appeared in more than a hundred film and television productions.
He received the Art Prize of the German Democratic Republic at a collective awarding in October 1986.
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Acting
Movie
Anatomy
as Paulas Großvater
2000
TV
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
as Neighbor
1996
Movie
Les Misérables
as Brevet (uncredited)
1958
Movie
Liberation - Part 3 : Direction of the Main Blow
as Alfred Jodl
1971
Movie
Coming Out
as Älterer Homosexueller Walter
1989
Movie
Liberation - Part 1 : The Fire Bulge
as Alfred Jodl
1970
Movie
Liberation - Part 2 : Breakthrough
1970
Movie
Liberation - Part 4 : The Battle of Berlin
1971
TV
Polizeiruf 110
as Herr Wolf
1971
TV
Polizeiruf 110
as Herr Breit
1971
TV
Polizeiruf 110
1971
TV
Polizeiruf 110
as Alfons Seebacher
1971
TV
Polizeiruf 110
as Otto Masurke
1971
Movie
Naked Among Wolves
as Otto Lange
1963
Movie
Ulzana
as Mexikanischer Arzt
1974
Movie
Little Red Riding Hood
as Wolf
1962
Movie
The Gleiwitz Case
as Volksschullehrer
1961
Movie
Just Don't Think I'll Cry
as Mantek
1965
Movie
Till Eulenspiegel
as Scholastischer Professor
1975
Movie
Stielke, Heinz, Fifteen...
as Invalide
1987
Movie
The Architects
as Alter
1990
Movie
Everything's a Lie
as Notary
1992
TV
In aller Freundschaft
as Herr Kagel
1998
TV
Der letzte Zeuge
as Karl Waller
1998