@@bele2.041 Dora Reisser who might be ethnic German but was born in Sofia, Bulgaria. Most of the other actresses in the movie listed "German Officer's Wife" or "German Officer's Girl" were British.
I'm surprised you didn't include Curd Jürgens in your list, wonderful actor who played a variety of roles, two of my favourites were the U-Boat captain in The Enemy Below, and as captain Lin Nan (a mixed race Chinese/Dutch officer in the Chinese Army) in The Inn Of The Sixth Happiness. He was in a lot of movies, people might remember him most as the villain Karl Stromberg in The Spy Who Loved Me.
@@suspiciousminds1750 The first war movie I ever remember seeing (and it was in the cinema as well) was The Battle Of Britain. I remember in the foyer of the cinema, they'd set up all these diorama's of battle scenes, some used Action Man and GI Joe figurines in British Army uniforms, others had model planes suspended from fishing line flying over (probably Matchbox) soldier figures, with little tanks and armoured cars. It's probably that memory which has stuck with me, I do remember being in the cinema waching the movie, but probably because of those dioramas.
Wow really enjoyed this video. Love all those actors for their movies as well. My favorite is Wolfgang Preiss as Feldmarschall Von Rundstedt. Cheers all!!!!
Hans Christian Blech for me. I thought his role as Conrad against Robert Shaw's Hessler in Battle of the Bulge was admirable, as was his all too brief part as Pluskat in The Longest Day. Silver medal goes to Karl-Otto Alberty.
All of these actors so impressed me as a youth watching war movies...they could play their roles so convincingly ....many thanks for making this small doco. I would love to have the last guy play a role in a film I am working on here in NZ.
Yep. Not to mention Ferdy Mayne, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, and Walter Gotell. Funnily enough most of these actors were either Jewish, part-Jewish or homosexual and fled Germany to escape persecution. Maximillian Schell was born in Vienna, Austria so technically he doesn't count as German.
You forget about one of the most famous actors in British cinema Anton Differing who was a German soldier in almost all WW2 movies. He is worth a video about his career.
Very interesting video. Very informative. BTW, Hand Christian Blech was always one of my favourite actors to see pop up unexpectedly in everything from One, Two, Three to Morituri to The Battle of the Bulge. Always added something good to every film he was in.
Good video but no mention of Wolf Kahler. He’s the actor playing the German general who gives a moving speech to his men at the end of Band Of Brothers as well as being the Wehrmacht colonel in Raiders Of The Lost Ark and played German officers in various war movies.
Wolf Kahler…played in dozens of classics…Raiders Of the Lost Ark, The Lady Vanishes, Band Of Brothers, The Keep, Charlotte Gray, The Eagle Has Landed, War And Rememberance and dozens of other war movies…and is still doing it (as the only German vet in The Grear Escaper).
Apparently you are unaware of what Mosfilm is churning out. Also the Brits like to bask in reflected 80-year-old glory while they can't seem to be able to deal with an invasion of small boats today.
No mention of Conrad Veidt (Casablanca and The Spy In Black - although that is WW1) nor Erich von Stroheim (Rommel in Five Graves to Cairo)! My favourite has always been Wolfgang Preiss.
In order of favourite German actors who were in world war 2 films: Hardy Krüger, Jürgen Prochnow and Curt Jurgens. I am also a fan of Bruno Ganz and Maximillian Schell, but they were both Swiss actors who starred in second world war movies.
Slightly off topic for this video but would you consider doing a spotlight on Steve McQueen for your stars in the services series? Admittedly he’s not a WWII vet but I know he was in the USMC and he’s one of my favorite actors. Keep up the great work!
and sitting next to Otto-Alberty in the scene from the Great Escape...Hannes Messemer who played the Camp Commandant. Hannes did a few other WW2 films, and was also an escaped POW from the Soviets, and veteran of Stalingrad.
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I literally just watched Alberti last night in the 1970 film The Great White Hope with James Earl Jones and Jane Alexander reprising their tony award winning roles. Based on the life of Boxer Jack Johnson when “Jack Jefferson “ Johnson goes to Europe he’s banned in Great Britain from Boxing,made his way to France and then Germany just before the outbreak of WW-1. Alberti plays a German soldier arm wrestling with the Heavyweight Champion. James Earl Jones.
Yes, I see a few here have reminded me of so many other well known actors..one in particular I admired was Gert Frobe...esp in Those Magnificent men and their flying machines. The Paris based German General in Is Paris burning. also in Triple Cross..brilliant actor!!!!
HARDY KRUGER WAS GREAT IN "THE WILD GEESE'1978 AND "HATARI" MAYBE YOU COULD DO VIDEO ON THE 82ND. AIRBORNE IN THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE.,MOST PEOPLE FORGET THEY WERE THERE ALSO.TAKE CARE
You missed one that I can think right now. His name escapes me, but the actor who played " Slugworth" in "Willy Wonka" was a German paratrooper during the war. He played a SS officer in "Is Paris Burning" and has had small parts in various other war movies. I was hoping to see him in here.
Yes I remember him in 'Is Paris Burning'. He was the creep at the railroad station. Played the part a little too well lol. There were many I could have added so maybe I will do a follow up if there is enough interest in this one.
a fraught period in history that they'd just as soon forget. Besides, Germany has this prohibition against glorifying WWII events ,so directors always have to make sure to toe an ideological fine line.
Remember Hardy Kruger in Flight of the Phoenix with Jimmy Stewart as the brilliant but arrogant aviation engineer who oversees the construction of a new plane from the one that crashed, and in Hatari with John Wayne.
Geez, so Hardy Kruger lived up until 2022? I had thought that he died years ago, but, there you go. Anyway, my favourite movie of his was "the one that got away," a film about the real life figter pilot named Hans von Werner or von Wearer ( I think I've spelled that wrong) who was shot down over England in the battle of Britain, captured, and tried to escape maybe 4 or more times. Anyway, the English sent him to Canada, where they thought he would be no more trouble. They were quite wrong. He escaped from the train he and other German POWs were on, and made a break for to cross the boarder into the still neutral United States. He made it! He sought the sanctuary of a neutral nation, which the United States had to grant to him under protocol and law, and made it back to Germany via Spain I believe. Apparently, a year or more after those events, he was in a plane flying somewhere over the Baltic Ocean, and was believed to be shot down on the same mission. He should have stayed in Canada!!
There were some german/austrian actors in Inglorious Basterds... Diane Kruger, Christoph Walz, Til Schweiger, Sylvester Groth, Gedeon Burkhard, August Diehl and Daniel Brühl...🤓
Nice documentary but some dodgy pronunciations!- The worst was "Das Boot" which is pronounced pretty much the same as "boat" . Also, Helmut Griem from the Mackenzie Break and and Hans Messemer from the Graet Escape are worth a mention.
I also shared one time on my Facebook page the scene in the movie The Train where Wolfgang Preiss was in a scene where a locomotive was derailed and the man was within inches danger. That was back in the day where actors were real men.
Oskar Werner starred in "Decision Before Dawn" and a minor part in "Odessa File" as well as some German war films. He served in the Wehrmacht during the war and deserted toward the end.
Also in "Decision Before Dawn" was Hans Christian Blech, a veteran of the war on the Eastern front. Oskar Werner was a Whermacht desterter. I wonder how those two got along.
There are a number of WW II movies that were made by Russian studios using East German actors. Most of their names are lost to history. However, thanks to Ytube, more and more of these movies are finding a global audience, deservedly so. One of those DDR-made movies is one of my favorites, a multi-parter called 'Aufruhr des Gewissens' (Tumult of Conscience). The lead actor playing a German colonel deserves an honorable mention. '08/15' is a West German production starring Joachim 'Blackie' Fuchsberger, who had a long and varied career right up to his death in German TV and movies, including WW II themed movies. Lastly, everybody's favorite German officer, Wolf Kahler. He is the go-to guy whom central casting sends over every time a role calls for a Nazi officer, be that 'Raiders of the Lost Ark', or, most recently, the General asking permission to address his troops in 'Band of Brothers'.
@@War_And_Truth Allow me to suggest three that I found over the years that I think are worth your time. 'White Tiger' directed by Karen Shaknazarov. "The Mornings Are Quiet Here", both the b/w original and the remake. "Spies". It's kinda a non-descript title that makes is hard to find, but it is worth the effort. It's a multi-parter for TV that follows the experiences of two young women from Kyev, who after meeting under fraught circumstances find themselves in spy school, where they have to learn to cooperate as undercover operatives in occupied Poland.
Franz Von Werra, whom Kruger portrayed in " The One That Got Away," was the only German to escape from captivity in North America and make it back to Germany.
A modern German actor, who has appeared in a load of recent WW2 movies, is Sylvester Groth. Of course, we can't include Christoph Waltz, who probably played the best Nazi Baddy in Inglourious Basterds, because he's Austrian not German
I'm making myself unpopular. But most American films about World War II are just pure Hollywood cinema, even when German actors are involved. The best films about this war were made by the Germans in the 50s (e.g. The Bridge). Hardy Krüger was a great, believable actor. Even though "All Quiet on the Western Front" from 1930 is not a film about WW2, I think it is one of the best American war films. Very believable. As a more recent film, I think "Enemy at the Gates" is really good. Ed Harris was great. Jürgen Prochnow was really good. Many people thought he was a real submarine commander. Just my personal opinion.
Fritz Wepper had a long and varied career in TV and movies, most notably in the long-running police procedurals 'Der Kommissar" and " Derrick'.' He worked until way into his eighties, appearing in 'UM Himmel's Willen' (For Heaven's Sake). I heard he just died about a year or two ago.
Would you have interest in covering the real story of Willi Herold, the Luftwaffe private that assumed the role of a Captain near the end of the war and exercised his new found power in brutal ways? The excellent German movie "Der Hauptman" (The Captain) is based on this true story. Unlike BoB, "The Private" makes no pretenses about it's historical accuracy.
Thomas Kretschmann lives in Kreuzberg, Berlin and is a neighbour and friend of Fran Healy from the band Travis. Interesting (though completely useless!) fact.
The two actors were detained like Muhammad Ali for their beliefs against the war. Another Austrian-German actor is Oskar Werner worth mentioning both actors Antonio Diffing appeared in the movie Fahrenheit 451 (1965)this movie became basis of Equilibrium (2002) Fatherland ( 1996)
Who was your favorite German WW2 actor?
The blonde chick that Telly Savalas stabbed in The Dirty Dozen.
@@bele2.041 Haha nice.
Anton Diffring, O E Hasse, and Anton Diffring. Oh, and Oskar Werner.
@@bele2.041 Dora Reisser who might be ethnic German but was born in Sofia, Bulgaria. Most of the other actresses in the movie listed "German Officer's Wife" or "German Officer's Girl" were British.
Werner Klemperer, John Banner, or any of the other German officer actors from _Hogan's Heroes._ 😀
I'm surprised you didn't include Curd Jürgens in your list, wonderful actor who played a variety of roles, two of my favourites were the U-Boat captain in The Enemy Below, and as captain Lin Nan (a mixed race Chinese/Dutch officer in the Chinese Army) in The Inn Of The Sixth Happiness.
He was in a lot of movies, people might remember him most as the villain Karl Stromberg in The Spy Who Loved Me.
I had to leave out a few. If this video gets enough interest I will do a part 2.
"To you my friend, and YOU my friend and all of us together..." ;-)
@@suspiciousminds1750 "I don't think your strategy is working Sir, they're having a ball down there!"
@@peterbrown3608 I think it's one of the first war movies I remember watching back in the 60s. Ouch
@@suspiciousminds1750 The first war movie I ever remember seeing (and it was in the cinema as well) was The Battle Of Britain.
I remember in the foyer of the cinema, they'd set up all these diorama's of battle scenes, some used Action Man and GI Joe figurines in British Army uniforms, others had model planes suspended from fishing line flying over (probably Matchbox) soldier figures, with little tanks and armoured cars.
It's probably that memory which has stuck with me, I do remember being in the cinema waching the movie, but probably because of those dioramas.
Wow really enjoyed this video. Love all those actors for their movies as well. My favorite is Wolfgang Preiss as Feldmarschall Von Rundstedt. Cheers all!!!!
Thanks mate
"No baby, we aint." Glad you used Kelly's Heroes for the thumbnail. It's such a great movie. Guess I don't have a favorite actual German actor.
Yeah it's one of the greatest scenes in movie history in my opinion.
You know what's inside that bank, man?
Jurgen Prochnow is my favourite, he gave a brilliant performance in Das Boot, the movie.
Wolfgang Preiss, Anton Differing, Karl-Otto Alberty. Thanks for this video. Just Awesome. But yeah, Jürgen Prochnow, he's in there for sure.
There will be a part 2 for sure.
Hans Christian Blech for me. I thought his role as Conrad against Robert Shaw's Hessler in Battle of the Bulge was admirable, as was his all too brief part as Pluskat in The Longest Day. Silver medal goes to Karl-Otto Alberty.
"You know those thousands of ships you say the Allies haven't got?!?! Well, they got them!!", Maj. Pluskat in "The Longest Day".
That Was Hans Christian Blech
Love that line!!
Jürgen Prochnow, and not just because of Das Boot. Thanks, W&T, take care.
Yes there were a few others worthy of mention but those are the guys I grew up watching.
@@War_And_Truth Dont forget the movie Beerfest.
Excellent Actor... 💪💪💪
He did The Keep as well.
All of these actors so impressed me as a youth watching war movies...they could play their roles so convincingly ....many thanks for making this small doco. I would love to have the last guy play a role in a film I am working on here in NZ.
Wow, you missed Maximilian Schell, Karl Michael Vogler, and Anton Diffring, Oskar Werner, Werner Peters, John Banner..
Makes for a part 2. People lose interest in these types of videos if they are too long.
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Good point. Ty
Yep. Not to mention Ferdy Mayne, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, and Walter Gotell. Funnily enough most of these actors were either Jewish, part-Jewish or homosexual and fled Germany to escape persecution. Maximillian Schell was born in Vienna, Austria so technically he doesn't count as German.
You forget about one of the most famous actors in British cinema Anton Differing who was a German soldier in almost all WW2 movies. He is worth a video about his career.
Yes he will be in part 2.
@War_And_Truth Great
Excellent work Mate. Love it!!!! I knew these guys but had no idea these guys were so talented.
Thanks mate. Yes the German actors were up there with the best but not always given the same recognition.
Once again, a very interesting and informative video. Your work is solid gold!
Thank you very much!
Always appreciated the German actors in WWII war moves , many of these are my favorites.
Very interesting video. Very informative. BTW, Hand Christian Blech was always one of my favourite actors to see pop up unexpectedly in everything from One, Two, Three to Morituri to The Battle of the Bulge. Always added something good to every film he was in.
He was brilliant in everything he was in.
I think Hardy Kruger's bet English language pic was The Flight of the Pheonix, (which isn't a war movie)
Good video but no mention of Wolf Kahler. He’s the actor playing the German general who gives a moving speech to his men at the end of Band Of Brothers as well as being the Wehrmacht colonel in Raiders Of The Lost Ark and played German officers in various war movies.
He also lives in London.
@ didn’t know that!
Thanks, great information.
You are welcome
Wolf Kahler…played in dozens of classics…Raiders Of the Lost Ark, The Lady Vanishes, Band Of Brothers, The Keep, Charlotte Gray, The Eagle Has Landed, War And Rememberance and dozens of other war movies…and is still doing it (as the only German vet in The Grear Escaper).
He will be in part 2.
Great video
Thanks
Karl Otto Alberty is my favorite. He also was in the movie Sink The Bismarck as the German naval officer saying FIRE at several sports in the movie
Karl Otto Alberty is my favorite. When you first see him on the silver screen, you knew his character was not to be messed with.
I remember seeing most of them. It just dawned on me, growing up with so many ww2 movies, I don't see them much anymore.
Apparently you are unaware of what Mosfilm is churning out. Also the Brits like to bask in reflected 80-year-old glory while they can't seem to be able to deal with an invasion of small boats today.
No mention of Conrad Veidt (Casablanca and The Spy In Black - although that is WW1) nor Erich von Stroheim (Rommel in Five Graves to Cairo)!
My favourite has always been Wolfgang Preiss.
loved 'Five Graves to Cairo'.
In order of favourite German actors who were in world war 2 films: Hardy Krüger, Jürgen Prochnow and Curt Jurgens.
I am also a fan of Bruno Ganz and Maximillian Schell, but they were both Swiss actors who starred in second world war movies.
Yes Schell was brilliant in The Young Lions and just a great actor. I never knew he was the father in The Day After Tomorrow.
@@War_And_Truth I believe that Schell was born in Austria.
Karl-Otto was a great 'Bad Guy' evil hun in the movies I loved back in the day. May he rest in peace.
Slightly off topic for this video but would you consider doing a spotlight on Steve McQueen for your stars in the services series? Admittedly he’s not a WWII vet but I know he was in the USMC and he’s one of my favorite actors. Keep up the great work!
Thank you. And yes I'm definitely going to do a video on Steve McQueen.
@@War_And_Truthgreat! Looking forward to it! 😁
@@War_And_Truth Then you can include Hans Messemer, the camp Kommandant of The Great Escape who was himself an actual P.O.W.
and sitting next to Otto-Alberty in the scene from the Great Escape...Hannes Messemer who played the Camp Commandant. Hannes did a few other WW2 films, and was also an escaped POW from the Soviets, and veteran of Stalingrad.
What about Otto Preminger, who played the camp commandant in Stalag 17. But also directed the Classic war movie In Harms Way
I had to look him up. Interesting guy.
He looks like GUNTHER from
FRIENDS 😃
This channel has opened up so much HISTORY / INSIGHT…
It’s makes it fun to watch movies…
I have to watch all these movies now , with all these ACTORS…
ANZIO, The Longest Day
A Bridge too Far ,
BATTLE of the BULGE…
36 Hours, I can go ON….
I have all these movies…
Kretchman was in the movie
Remake of KING KONG …
The Ships captain who brought KING KONG back to NY…
I JUST LOVE THIS CHANNEL 👍
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Thanks Chris, I always love to read your comments and yes, make sure you keep watching WW2 films as they are the best.
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I’m always into finding new movies to watch…. Just watched the latest
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Yes I remember Gert on the horse at the beginning of The Longest day....
I literally just watched Alberti last night in the 1970 film The Great White Hope with James Earl Jones and Jane Alexander reprising their tony award winning roles. Based on the life of Boxer Jack Johnson when “Jack Jefferson “ Johnson goes to Europe he’s banned in Great Britain from Boxing,made his way to France and then Germany just before the outbreak of WW-1. Alberti plays a German soldier arm wrestling with the Heavyweight Champion. James Earl Jones.
"What makes you so strong, Boxy?"
@@thomasthomas2418 You have a excellent memory!! I forgot it was Alberti until a couple nights ago.
Yes, I see a few here have reminded me of so many other well known actors..one in particular I admired was Gert Frobe...esp in Those Magnificent men and their flying machines. The Paris based German General in Is Paris burning. also in Triple Cross..brilliant actor!!!!
And Goldfinger.
You see him in the beginning of The Longest Day riding a horse and seeing the invasion fleet appearing.
could you do a video of the guys that played col.Klink and sgt. schults?
I have just finished Hogan's Heroes. It will be up in the next couple of videos.
HARDY KRUGER WAS GREAT IN "THE WILD GEESE'1978 AND "HATARI" MAYBE YOU COULD DO VIDEO ON THE 82ND. AIRBORNE IN THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE.,MOST PEOPLE FORGET THEY WERE THERE ALSO.TAKE CARE
I loved Hardy in Hatari!
Walter Gotell & Klaus Lowitsch appeared in several war films and should be included in your next video about German actors.
I will take a look at them. Thanks for the suggestion.
You missed one that I can think right now. His name escapes me, but the actor who played " Slugworth" in "Willy Wonka" was a German paratrooper during the war. He played a SS officer in "Is Paris Burning" and has had small parts in various other war movies. I was hoping to see him in here.
Yes I remember him in 'Is Paris Burning'. He was the creep at the railroad station. Played the part a little too well lol. There were many I could have added so maybe I will do a follow up if there is enough interest in this one.
@War_And_Truth That would be great!
Why was Anton Diffring and Curt Jurgens missed out ?
Both will be in part 2.
Cheers to Hardy Kruger for his bravery and compassion. Rest well, all you old soldiers.
Bert Frobe (Auric Goldfinger) played Sgt. Kaffeekkaan (riding a donkey) in the Longest Day.
Yes very good. He also brilliantly played Dietrich von Chlotitz in 'Is Paris Burning'
@@War_And_Truth Gert Frobe.
You had some good ones in Havana Hero’s!
I can't find that film?
Thanks for doing this, there’s no german language account of actors playing german ww2 soldiers.
I might dub one in German if that's the case.
@ I would love to see that.
a fraught period in history that they'd just as soon forget. Besides, Germany has this prohibition against glorifying WWII events ,so directors always have to make sure to toe an ideological fine line.
@@War_And_Truth If you do, don't forget East German actors appearing in Russian WW II movies.
@@shelbynamels7948 Interesting take. I am not sure anglosaxon movie buffs know about these films. Were they translated?
Remember Hardy Kruger in Flight of the Phoenix with Jimmy Stewart as the brilliant but arrogant aviation engineer who oversees the construction of a new plane from the one that crashed, and in Hatari with John Wayne.
Great films.
Joachim Hansen as Marseille in Der Stern Von Afrika.
Austrian-German actor Oskar Werner is worth mentioning.
Geez, so Hardy Kruger lived up until 2022? I had thought that he died years ago, but, there you go.
Anyway, my favourite movie of his was "the one that got away," a film about the real life figter pilot named Hans von Werner or von Wearer ( I think I've spelled that wrong) who was shot down over England in the battle of Britain, captured, and tried to escape maybe 4 or more times.
Anyway, the English sent him to Canada, where they thought he would be no more trouble. They were quite wrong. He escaped from the train he and other German POWs were on, and made a break for to cross the boarder into the still neutral United States. He made it!
He sought the sanctuary of a neutral nation, which the United States had to grant to him under protocol and law, and made it back to Germany via Spain I believe.
Apparently, a year or more after those events, he was in a plane flying somewhere over the Baltic Ocean, and was believed to be shot down on the same mission.
He should have stayed in Canada!!
Flight of the Pheonix
There were some german/austrian actors in Inglorious Basterds... Diane Kruger, Christoph Walz, Til Schweiger, Sylvester Groth, Gedeon Burkhard, August Diehl and Daniel Brühl...🤓
Yeah I just can't take that film seriously. Its up there with 'The Captain' and Fury.
What about Anton Diffring?
Part 2.
Nice documentary but some dodgy pronunciations!- The worst was "Das Boot" which is pronounced pretty much the same as "boat" . Also, Helmut Griem from the Mackenzie Break and and Hans Messemer from the Graet Escape are worth a mention.
Yes I am deaf so pronunciations can be a problem for me when it comes to foreign words.
Just to suggest a few other actors: Helmut Dantine, Martin Kosleck, Karl Michael Vogler, and Horst Janson.
I'll have a look at them, thanks for the suggestion.
Karl Otto Alberty was also in Sink The Bismarck.
I will have to watch that film again to see how he was in it.
@@War_And_Truth small role, nothing major.
I also shared one time on my Facebook page the scene in the movie The Train where Wolfgang Preiss was in a scene where a locomotive was derailed and the man was within inches danger. That was back in the day where actors were real men.
thank you for this video. I've 0ften wondered who these Germans were as many times as I saw them.👍
No problem!
Oskar Werner starred in "Decision Before Dawn" and a minor part in "Odessa File" as well as some German war films. He served in the Wehrmacht during the war and deserted toward the end.
Also in "Decision Before Dawn" was Hans Christian Blech, a veteran of the war on the Eastern front. Oskar Werner was a Whermacht desterter. I wonder how those two got along.
@@thomasthomas2418 I wondered that myself. 🌞
Curt Jurgens? Anton Diffring? Maximillian Schell? Those are some major omissions.
They will be in Part 2.
Kurt Jurgens had an interesting life, was fortunate to survive and continue his career post-war.
There are a number of WW II movies that were made by Russian studios using East German actors. Most of their names are lost to history. However, thanks to Ytube, more and more of these movies are finding a global audience, deservedly so.
One of those DDR-made movies is one of my favorites, a multi-parter called 'Aufruhr des Gewissens' (Tumult of Conscience). The lead actor playing a German colonel deserves an honorable mention.
'08/15' is a West German production starring Joachim 'Blackie' Fuchsberger, who had a long and varied career right up to his death in German TV and movies, including WW II themed movies.
Lastly, everybody's favorite German officer, Wolf Kahler. He is the go-to guy whom central casting sends over every time a role calls for a Nazi officer, be that 'Raiders of the Lost Ark', or, most recently, the General asking permission to address his troops in 'Band of Brothers'.
Great post, thanks for sharing. There are some wonderful WW2 Russian films if you can weed out the ones which are way over the top in propaganda.
@@War_And_Truth Allow me to suggest three that I found over the years that I think are worth your time.
'White Tiger' directed by Karen Shaknazarov.
"The Mornings Are Quiet Here", both the b/w original and the remake.
"Spies". It's kinda a non-descript title that makes is hard to find, but it is worth the effort.
It's a multi-parter for TV that follows the experiences of two young women from Kyev, who after meeting under fraught circumstances find themselves in spy school, where they have to learn to cooperate as undercover operatives in occupied Poland.
Very imteresting
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They are all great actors.
For me it would be Wolfgang Preiss in The Train and Von Ryan's Express!
Yes he was brilliant in The Train. So was Burt.
Elke sommers. Yum yum.
Franz Von Werra, whom Kruger portrayed in " The One That Got Away," was the only German to escape from captivity in North America and make it back to Germany.
A modern German actor, who has appeared in a load of recent WW2 movies, is Sylvester Groth. Of course, we can't include Christoph Waltz, who probably played the best Nazi Baddy in Inglourious Basterds, because he's Austrian not German
I remember seeing Alberty more than any of them.
I'm making myself unpopular. But most American films about World War II are just pure Hollywood cinema, even when German actors are involved. The best films about this war were made by the Germans in the 50s (e.g. The Bridge). Hardy Krüger was a great, believable actor. Even though "All Quiet on the Western Front" from 1930 is not a film about WW2, I think it is one of the best American war films. Very believable. As a more recent film, I think "Enemy at the Gates" is really good. Ed Harris was great. Jürgen Prochnow was really good. Many people thought he was a real submarine commander. Just my personal opinion.
How abour Jurgen Prochnow?
Yes but he was really only in Das Boot.
Although most of his work was TV work, there is also Eric Braeden.
Die Brücke (The Bridge) was a great german anti war movie with Fritz Wepper, Günther Pfitzmann, Gunter Lechtenbrink among others,
Love that movie. I might do a video on it soon.
Fritz Wepper had a long and varied career in TV and movies, most notably in the long-running police procedurals 'Der Kommissar" and " Derrick'.'
He worked until way into his eighties, appearing in 'UM Himmel's Willen' (For Heaven's Sake).
I heard he just died about a year or two ago.
Roger Bushell was a South African. He served in the RAF but was not British
Yes he was a British officer.
@@War_And_Truth He was not British, he was a South African.
No self-respecting WW2 film was without Anton Diffring back in the day.
He will be in part 2.
ANTON DIFFERING SHOULD BE ON THIS LIST!!!
Part 2.
Max von Sydow
You forgot Anton Diffring.
He will be in part 2.
@War_And_Truth Ok.
NO SMOKE!
Would you have interest in covering the real story of Willi Herold, the Luftwaffe private that assumed the role of a Captain near the end of the war and exercised his new found power in brutal ways? The excellent German movie "Der Hauptman" (The Captain) is based on this true story. Unlike BoB, "The Private" makes no pretenses about it's historical accuracy.
I was not a fan of that movie but I think it will be an interesting one to research vs the real story. Thanks for the suggestion.
@@War_And_Truth It was quite harsh. They might have been following Dante's levels of hell. I'm not sure, it has been a while.
Thomas Kretschmann lives in Kreuzberg, Berlin and is a neighbour and friend of Fran Healy from the band Travis.
Interesting (though completely useless!) fact.
That is interesting.
@@War_And_TruthThank you.
KURT KREUGER ANTON DIFFRING
The two actors were detained like Muhammad Ali for their beliefs against the war. Another Austrian-German actor is Oskar Werner worth mentioning both actors Antonio Diffing appeared in the movie Fahrenheit 451 (1965)this movie became basis of Equilibrium (2002) Fatherland ( 1996)
I bet you if you're a German actor and Hollywood call you. you probably say I'm sick of tired playing a German officer go away😂😂😂😂
Karl Michael Vogler hands down
I knew he was in Patton. Was in a lot more too looking at his list.
Klaus Kinski also played Nazi villains early in his career
Thanks I'll look him up.
This has got to be AI. It consistently mispronounces Remagen, but worst of all was Das Boot. It does not rhyme with hoot.
I'm deaf so have trouble with my txt to speech at times.
@ If so, I take back my comment. Perhaps there’s a way for you to learn to pronounce place names properly.
Please stop pronouncing german words and names like an american😅
I'm actually Australian, so there you go. I am also deaf so I don't know the difference between German and Ethiopian.
Seems like they’re in all my favorite films. I know many of these actors life stories, but many I didn’t- thanks🫡