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Werner Peters (7 July 1918 – 30 March 1971) was a German film actor. He appeared in 102 films between 1947 and 1971. [1] Biography. 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.
Werner Peters. Actor: Battle of the Bulge. Corpulent German character actor, often seen in menacing or unpleasant roles. Trained under Lina Carstens (1935-1937), Peters initially started out as a comedian.
- July 7, 1918
- March 30, 1971
Werner Peters. Actor: Battle of the Bulge. Corpulent German character actor, often seen in menacing or unpleasant roles. Trained under Lina Carstens (1935-1937), Peters initially started out as a comedian.
- January 1, 1
- Werlitzsch, Saxony, Germany
- January 1, 1
- Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany
Biography. 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.
Werner Peters, a German stage and film actor, will be remembered best for his outstanding performance as the opportunistic, cowardly, and impertinent Diederich Hessling, in Wolfgang Staudte’s international film success, Der Untertan, based on Heinrich Mann’s novel of the same title.
Biography. A prolific German actor who worked until the day he died, Werner Peters played both sinister and melodramatic characters with equal aplomb. His first major film part came with the lead in Wolfgang Staudte's "Man of Straw," in which he played the power-crazed Diederich Heßling, a character who gets ahead by trampling others.
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.
