Werner Dissel
Actor
Born August 26, 1912 in Köln, Germany
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.
Filmography
Anatomy
Paulas Großvater
Picknick im Schnee
Mann mit Decke
In aller Freundschaft
Herr Kagel
Der letzte Zeuge
Karl Waller
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
Neighbor
Immenhof
Wilhelm
Auf eigene Gefahr
Schreiner
Motzki
Birne
Verlorene Landschaft
Die Spur des Bernsteinzimmers
Everything's a Lie
Notary
Albert Einstein
Max Planck
The Architects
Alter
Der Magdalenenbaum
Opa Panse
Coming Out
Älterer Homosexueller Walter
Späte Ankunft
Kutscher Pankoke
Barfuß ins Bett
Opa Jonny
Fallada: The Last Chapter
Doktor
Childhood
Lehrer
Stielke, Heinz, Fifteen...
Invalide
Der Traum vom Elch
Paulchen
Ernst Thälmann
Emil Kirdorf
Die Schöne und das Tier
Alter
Chirurgus Johann Paul Schroth
Gundelsheimer
A Stortebeker Girl
Opa Warning
Die Rache des Kapitäns Mitchell
Schiffsarzt
Die Lange Strasse
ein Arzt
Sunday's Child Sometimes Runs Wild
Älterer Herr mit Hund
Jörg Ratgeb, Painter
Beethoven - Days in a Life
Grisslinger
Jede Woche Hochzeitstag
Otto Haubold
Man against Man
Angler
Till Eulenspiegel
Scholastischer Professor
Am Ende der Welt
Amtsdiener Göpel
Johannes Kepler
Richter
Ulzana
Mexikanischer Arzt
Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui
Butcher
Liberation - Part 4 : The Battle of Berlin
Polizeiruf 110
Herr Wolf
Optimistische Tragödie
Liberation - Part 3 : Direction of the Main Blow
Alfred Jodl
Pułapka
Runge
Liberation - Part 1 : The Fire Bulge
Alfred Jodl
Liberation - Part 2 : Breakthrough
Heroin
Zollrat Donkenberg
Stories of That Night
Kilian (segment "Materna")
Zejście do piekła
Rudolf Knoll
Black Panthers
Dressurreiter Alois Feldmann
Lebende Ware
Erno Brody
Just Don't Think I'll Cry
Mantek
Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort
Matthes Horka
As Long as There’s Life in Me
Bethmann-Hollweg
Pension Boulanka
Dr. Vollmer
Jetzt und in der Stunde meines Todes
Herr Merker
Naked Among Wolves
Otto Lange
The Green Monster
Dr. Luis Guerra
Entdeckung des Julian Böll
Little Red Riding Hood
Wolf
Ärzte
The Gleiwitz Case
Volksschullehrer
Der Fremde
Die Liebe und der Co-Pilot
Meteorologe
The Opportunists
Fario
Love's Confusion
Taxifahrer
Before lightning strikes
Silvio O. Schmitt
Ware für Katalonien
Portier
Der Prozeß wird vertagt
Ein Mädchen von 16 ½
Rohn
Les Misérables
Brevet (uncredited)
The Captain from Cologne