Günter Meisner
Birthday: 1926-04-18
Place of Birth: Bremen, Germany
Biography: Günter Meisner (18 April 1926 – 5 December 1994) was a German TV and film character actor. He is remembered for his several cinematic portrayals of Adolf Hitler and for his role as Mr. Slugworth in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. He was fluent in four languages and appeared in many English-language, German-language and French-language films.
Movies
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
When eccentric candy man Willy Wonka promises a lifetime supply of sweets and a tour of his chocolat...
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Drei gegen drei
The plan is simple: the three generals Weingarten, Ludovico and Klotz from San Chaco set a hitman on...
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The American Success Company
A husband is humiliated at home and at work. He decides he has had enough of it and hires a prostitu...
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Funeral in Berlin
Colonel Stok, a Soviet intelligence officer responsible for security at the Berlin Wall, appears to ...
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Borsalino and Co.
Marseille. Heaps of flowers and funeral wreaths... "A man who no longer defends his colors is no lon...
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In a Glass Cage
A mysterious teenager named Ángelo cares for Klaus, a German doctor with a dark past who lives trapp...
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Ace of Aces
In this action comedy the French boxer Jo Cavalier is charmed on the train to Berlin for the Olympic...
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The Saint: The Big Bang
Simon Templar and a newswoman track down the front man for a deadly corporate takeover....
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Inside Out
An American ex-WW II POW returns to Germany 30 years after the war. He teams up with the former comm...
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Ticket of No Return
A sartorially resplendent woman of few words arrives in Berlin with plans to live out the rest of he...
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Moon Child
Adopted by a treacherous semi-scientific cult where extraordinary mental powers are common, extraord...
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Operation Caviar
Bank accountant Thomas Lieven is forced to work as a triple agent for the British, the French and th...
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Ruby Cairo
Baseball cards and a food-aid worker help a woman follow her shady husband's money trail around the ...
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Between Wars
This film traces the career of Dr Edward Trenbow (Corin Redgrave), who becomes a well-respected Sydn...
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Magdalene
Father Joseph Mohr, a newly appointed priest in the town of Oberndorf (near Salzburg), meets the bea...
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Under the Volcano
Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken...
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Faraway, So Close!
Damiel is now married to Marion, runs the pizzeria “Da Angelo” and the two have a child. The solitar...
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Te Rua
A hundred years after the theft from New Zealand of three irreplaceable tribal carvings, two Maori, ...
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Werwölfe
Film about a group of young nazi terrorists commiting crimes after the end of World War 2....
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Breakthrough
Starting in late May 1944, during the German retreat on the Eastern Front, Captain Stransky (Helmut ...
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The Man on the Wall
An East German man finds a way to cross the border between East and West Berlin. But when he succeed...
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Is Paris Burning?
Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it be...
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The Odessa File
Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, investigative journalist Peter Miller sets out to hu...
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Hauser's Memory
A scientist is persuaded by the government to inject himself with the brain fluid of a dying colleag...
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The Boys from Brazil
Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot, masterminded by Dr. Josef Mengele,...
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Avalanche Express
CIA agent Harry Wargrave is sent to aid Gen. Marenkov, a senior Russian official, who is defecting t...
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Night Crossing
Two men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they can ta...
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The Quiller Memorandum
After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi...
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The Bridge at Remagen
In March of 1945, as the War in Europe is coming to a close, fighting erupts between German and Amer...
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The Battle of Sutjeska
The headquarters of the Marshal Tito's Liberation Army are surrounded by Axis forces. The Partisans ...
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Voyage of the Damned
A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival....
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The Serpent's Egg
In 1923 Berlin, following the suicide of his brother, an American acrobat struggles to survive while...
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Babette Goes to War
Comedy about a naive French country girl in London who helps the war effort by parachuting into Germ...
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The Counterfeit Traitor
Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infil...
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Plem, Plem – Die Schule brennt
The Prinz-Eugen-Gymnasium is in a crisis, which is not least due to the insolent students who lack a...
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Gibbi West Germany
Gibbi Westgermany is the name of a former sailor with a Mick Jagger look—leather jacket over the bar...
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Depressionen
Diary of a Disease - prophesied that all psychiatric experience speaks against the described spontan...
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The Case of Mr. Spalt
The filmmaker René Perraudin made five comedic short films with Otto Sander in the leading role and ...
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Gestatten, Bestatter
Two shady businessmen set out to shake up the West Berlin funeral industry - with unconventional ide...
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Als Hitler das rosa Kaninchen stahl
Anna is a Jewish girl in Germany. When the Nazis come to power in the 1930s, her family has to flee ...
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Flesh of the Orchid
A disturbed young woman is kept prisoner in a castle by her aunt for her money. The game-keeper, her...
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Bride of the Orient
After the death of his mother, a lonely farmer in rural Switzerland considers finally starting a fam...
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The Man Inside
Gunter Wallraff is a journalist seeking to expose the unethical journalism practiced by The Standard...
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A Happy Family Life
Manfred, a lathe operator, and Manuela, a seamstress, marry and try to find happiness together. They...
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The Brutalization of Franz Blum
Born into a well-off family, Franz Blum had led a carefree youth until, some time after graduating f...
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One Day: A Report from a German Concentration Camp 1939
Germany, January 1939: a day in a concentration camp. Subjected to harsh military discipline the hun...
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Notes from a Gynecologist's Diary
After a carnival celebration, young Erika Hansen is offered a lift by two young men in a car. The me...
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Question 7
Suspenseful story of a boy and his father, each forced to decide his future on his willingness to st...
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The Miracle of Father Malachia
"Wunderbar" takes on a new meaning in this routine satire by Bernhard Wicki about a bar that is mira...
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The Black Chapel
1933 in Germany. The rise of Nazism fears war and some officers, concerned the fate that hostilities...
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Ship of the Dead
After a line of mischief Philip Gale, an American sailor, is lured into hiring on the "Yorikke", a t...
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The College Girl Murders
Police try to track down a hooded serial killer who murders his victims with a combination of acid a...
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The Black Cobra
After a truck carrying a cargo of narcotics is held up by rival smugglers, the driver sets out to pr...
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Central Station
Alex, a sought-after professional photographer, is involved in a mysterious series of murders that a...
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The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
Dr. Mabuse has been locked away for years in an insane asylum. Suddenly crimes start occurring and n...
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Roselyne and the Lions
Thierry drops out of school to apprentice as a lion tamer at the zoo where he meets Roselyne, who sh...
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Das Martyrium des Peter OHey
Poetic fable about the sophisticated rape of civil rights by a totalitarian power. The orderly exist...
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Close Up
Secret agents from the East and the West scheme to obtain an ingenious invention....
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The Tin Drum
In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...
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