Werner Peters
Birthday: 1918-07-07
Place of Birth:
Biography: 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.
Movies
Rosemary
West Germany in '50s is becoming an economic superpower. In such climate, Rosemarie is just one of m...
View Movie
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
An American writer living in Rome witnesses an attempted murder that is connected to an ongoing kill...
View Movie
Das Herz von St. Pauli
Due to a lack of money, Hamburg pub owner Jonny Jensen brings two partners on board. As soon as the ...
View Movie
Unter den Dächern von St. Pauli
Rival gangs are fighting for control of Hamburg's notorious harbor district, spreading fear and terr...
View Movie
The Black Abbot
Several employees on a nobleman's estate show up at a former abbey, reputed to be haunted, to search...
View Movie
Ein Polterabend
Berlin 1849: The democrat Adolf Glasbrenner, known as Brennglas, publishes the political satire maga...
View Movie
The Secret War of Harry Frigg
When 5 allied generals are captured in Italy in WWII, it is a propaganda nightmare for the allies. T...
View Movie
Der Teufel vom Mühlenberg
This film is set in a medieval mill town in the Harz mountains. The greedy and brutal millman and hi...
View Movie
Battle of the Bulge
In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. ...
View Movie
The Kaiser's Lackey
Diederich Heßling is scared of everything and everyone. But as he grows up, he comes to realize that...
View Movie
The Counterfeit Traitor
Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infil...
View Movie
36 Hours
Germans kidnap an American major and try to convince him that World War II is over, so that they can...
View Movie
Punishment Battalion
The film focuses on life in a World War II German penal battalion camp somewhere in Russia. The conv...
View Movie
The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
A reporter is murdered while driving to his job. The Police are contacted by a clairvoyant who saw t...
View Movie
Angels of Terror
An Australian woman arrives in London to search for her sister who she finds is involved with a hero...
View Movie
The Wild Men of Kurdistan
After dealing with the Shut in the Balkans, Kara Ben-Nemsi ('Karl the German') receives a firman (pr...
View Movie
The Curse of the Hidden Vault
Mobsters conspire to loot another criminal's treasure secured in an enormous booby-trapped vault....
View Movie
The Door with Seven Locks
A rich man bequeaths seven keys to seven of his friends, but only one will unlock the door to untold...
View Movie
Hard Women
Rough-and-ready vice detective Perrak has to follow a 1000 leads during the investigation of a trans...
View Movie
The Devil Strikes at Night
Hamburg, Germany, 1944, during World War II. A serial killer terrorizes the city. When it seems clea...
View Movie
Death Knocks Twice
When private detective Bob Martin looking for a stolen diamond necklace, he also has a clever serial...
View Movie
Roses for the Prosecutor
April 1945. Because he stole two bars of chocolate, the soldier Rudi is sentenced to death by the co...
View Movie
Vom Alex zum Eismeer
Five cameramen of the DEFA travel with the trawler ROS 206 to its fishing grounds in the Arctic Ocea...
View Movie
Hypnosis
Erik, in love with Magda, the fiancée of Georg, his boss, secretly sends her roses every night....
View Movie
Operation Caviar
Bank accountant Thomas Lieven is forced to work as a triple agent for the British, the French and th...
View Movie
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 atte...
View Movie
Black Eagle of Santa Fe
When Comanches go on the warpath, settlers take refuge in Ft. Eagle Rock commanded by Capt. Jackson....
View Movie
The Carpet of Horror
Shortly after his return from India, a special agent of the British secret service falls victim to a...
View Movie
The Endless Night
Anthology film about a night at airport Berlin-Tempelhof. Due to fog passengers can't leave Berlin b...
View Movie
The Secret of the Black Widow
Someone is killing people related to a South American expedition. The means of murder are poison dar...
View Movie
The Copper
Otto Friedrich Dennert is a celebrated veteran of the Essen police force. While investigating a seri...
View Movie
13 Little Donkeys and the Sun Court
Martha Krapp is amazed when her husband Josef suddenly appears at the door. He has rarely been seen ...
View Movie
The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
A disillusioned Wehrmacht officer named Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators attem...
View Movie
Jons und Erdme
Adaptation of Hermann Sudermann's novel about the troubled relationship between the strong willed Er...
View Movie
Blitzmädels an die Front
During WWII The German 'Wehrmacht' is heavily under fire after the invasion of Normandy. There are a...
View Movie
Girls in Gingham
A moving saga focusing on the women in a family that spans three generations and almost 70 years of ...
View Movie
The Return of Dr. Mabuse
The supposedly dead and buried Mabuse returns to his criminal activities, as his longtime foe Police...
View Movie
Liebe kann wie Gift sein
After having lost her mother Magdalena was brought up on strict boarding school disciplines. When re...
View Movie
Grabenplatz 17
Murder mystery about the disappearance of a boy who has leukaemia following the murder of his mother...
View Movie
The Phantom of Soho
A masked killer is stalking and killing Londoners outside a nightclub....
View Movie
Der Schatz vom Toplitzsee
Shortly before the end of the war, SS officer Grohmann sinks several crates of counterfeit English m...
View Movie
Romarei, the Girl with the Green Eyes
Clairvoyant gifted Romarei (Carola Kayser) manages to save her childhood friend Lorenz Ophofen from ...
View Movie
Scotland Yard Hunts Dr. Mabuse
The spirit of the evil Dr. Mabuse takes over the body of a famous professor. The professor/Dr. Mabus...
View Movie
The Racetrack Murders
The son of a British racehorse owner conspires with a bookie to ruin the odds of his father's thorou...
View Movie
The Invisible Dr. Mabuse
Strange things happen in a revue theatre. The dancer Maria seems to be hunted by an invisible admire...
View Movie
The White Spider
After an automobile accident, in which a man is unrecognizably burnt to a crisp, his wife's only abl...
View Movie
Dead Run
A thief gets hold of some top secret papers and is chased around Europe by the sinister Organisation...
View Movie
The Beaver Coat
Mother Wolffen, a washerwoman, is a woman of principle: A poor man must do what he must to get throu...
View Movie
Ernst Thälmann – Son of the Working Class
This film is the first of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politicia...
View Movie
Escape from Sahara
Three Foreign Legionnaires - Luigi, Pat and Kurt - desert during the Algerian war because they have ...
View Movie
Die Unbesiegbaren
The film "Die Unbesiegbaren" covers an episode in German history, in which the Bismarck government t...
View Movie
The Curse of the Yellow Snake
A Chinese cult bent on taking over the world uses an idol called The Golden Reptile that they believ...
View Movie
Court Martial
In this war drama, three Nazi survivors are rescued after their battleship sank. Initially they are ...
View Movie
Istanbul Express
An art dealer on a special mission is pulled into dangerous intrigue while railway detective Cheval ...
View Movie
The Blum Affair
Dr. Blum, a Jewish manufacturer, is falsely accused of a murder. Even when the real killer’s identit...
View Movie
Lilli, a Girl from the Big City
The frenzied reporter Lilli is just great: she shoots with both hands and lays her opponents with Ji...
View Movie
Endstation Rote Laterne
Unscrupulous girl traders transport unsuspecting blonde girls from a nightclub in Amsterdam to a bro...
View Movie
Rotation
The mechanic Behnke wants to join the Nazi party to secure a good living. However, after his Jewish ...
View Movie
Star mit fremden Federn
A striking resemblance between the hairdresser Franz Blume and the famous actor Günther Kolmin leads...
View Movie
Blind Justice
A man is accused of murdering his wife. The state prosecutor assumes he did the deed to spend more t...
View Movie
Dog Eat Dog!
Three thieves rip off a shipment of used money being sent back to the US. As they are escaping the r...
View Movie
Modell Bianka
The friends Jochen and Gerd both work at the fashion boutique "Saxonia", which has only recently des...
View Movie
The Scarlet Baroness
During the final days of the Second World War, British intelligence sends an agent to Berlin to try ...
View Movie
Spy for Germany
The true story of a German agent sent to the USA in 1944 in order to stop the development of the ato...
View Movie
Lotosblüten für Miss Quon
American Mark Jason is stranded in Southeast Asia and works there as a teacher. One day, he finds di...
View Movie
Denn das Weib ist schwach
The respected lawyer Jolly Gebhardt is in debt because of his lavish lifestyle and is therefore blac...
View Movie
Besuch aus der Zone
Germany, end of the 1950s. After his business partner Kleinschmidt fled to the West, Mr. Reichert ma...
View Movie
The Corrupt Ones
Freelance photographer Cliff Wilder (Robert Stack) finds himself the target of various colorful vill...
View Movie
The Cat Shows Her Claws
France under the Occupation. Executed for treason against the Resistance, Cora, code-named "La Chatt...
View Movie
The Black Chapel
1933 in Germany. The rise of Nazism fears war and some officers, concerned the fate that hostilities...
View Movie
I Deal In Danger
During World War II, an American who sympathizes with the Nazi cause defects to Germany, where he is...
View Movie
Witness Out of Hell
Leah Weiss, a Polish Jew, was first forced into prostitution at Auschwitz. Afterwards, she was victi...
View Movie
The Story of Little Mook
An old man living in an oriental city tells the story of his life to a group of kids: He too was onc...
View Movie
Ernst Thälmann – Leader of the Working Class
This film is the second of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politici...
View Movie
Assignment K
Philip Scott, the boss of a toy company, is secretly also the chief of a British spy organization. S...
View Movie
Everyone Dies Alone
In wartime Berlin, a factory foreman, Otto Quangel and his wife, Anna learn that their only son, Pau...
View Movie
Three for a Robbery
Gerhard is a young technical in Düsseldorf who works in a factory of security devices for banks. In ...
View Movie
The Barge of Happy People
The girl Marianne inherited a motorboat called “Eintracht” from her parents and struggled to get her...
View Movie
A Fine Madness
A womanizing poet falls into the hands of a psychiatrist with a straying wife....
View Movie
The Killer Likes Candy
Shrewd and evasive ex-Nazi and top assassin Oscar Snell is determined to rub out the King of Kafiris...
View Movie
Karriere in Paris
France at the time of the Restoration. The young country gentleman Rastignac comes to Paris to study...
View Movie
Sommerliebe
Young, pretty Milli is passionate about winter sports, and of all things, she wins a vacation trip t...
View Movie
The Restless Night
1958: during the Russian campaign, a military priest is called upon to assist Private Baranowski, wh...
View Movie
Between Yesterday and Tomorrow
A group of people gathers back in the post-war ruins of a luxurious Munich hotel they inhabited at o...
View Movie