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John Wengraf

John Wengraf
  • Name: John Wengraf
  • Birthday: 1897-04-22
  • Place of birth: Vienna, Austria-Hungary, now Austria
  • Popularity: 0.046
Biography: Emigrating to England in 1933 as the Nazis began their rise to power, Wengraf appeared unbilled in a couple of films there, as well as in some of the first BBC live-television shows ever presented but his career began to languish. In late 1941, however, he had the good fortune of appearing on Broadway with Helen Hayes in "Candle in the Wind" and decided to stay. The following year he headed west and settled permanently in the Los Angeles area. A dark, cold-eyed, thin-lipped player with a precise, meticulous air about him, he found himself invariably playing the very characters he detested. Some of his more nefarious nasties surfaced in such films as the Humphrey Bogart classic Sahara... Read More

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Title Release date
Ship of Fools   as  Graf 1965-07-29
The Prize   as  Hans Eckhart 1963-12-25
Hitler   as  Dr. Morell 1962-03-21
Judgment at Nuremberg   as  Karl Wieck 1961-12-18
Portrait in Black   as  Dr. Kessler 1960-07-27
12 to the Moon   as  Dr. Erich Heinrich 1960-02-03
The Return of Dracula   as  John Merriman 1958-05-21
The Disembodied   as  Dr. Carl Metz 1957-08-25
Valerie   as  Mr. Louis Horvat 1957-08-01
The Pride and the Passion   as  Sermaine 1957-07-10
Oh, Men! Oh, Women!   as  Dr. Krauss 1957-02-22
Never Say Goodbye   as  Prof. Zimmelman 1956-03-10
The Racers   as  Dr. Tabor 1955-02-04
The Gambler from Natchez   as  Nicholas Cadiz 1954-08-04
Gog   as  Dr. Zeitman 1954-06-04
Paris Playboys   as  Vidal 1954-03-07
The French Line   as  Commodore Renard 1954-02-08
Hell and High Water   as  Col. Schuman (uncredited) 1954-02-06
The Desert Rats   as  German Doctor (uncredited) 1953-05-20
Tropic Zone   as  Lukats 1953-01-14
5 Fingers   as  Count Franz Von Papen 1952-02-22
The Lovable Cheat   as  Pierquin 1949-05-11
Wake of the Red Witch   as  Prosecuting Attorney 1948-12-30
Sealed Verdict   as  German Doctor 1948-11-05
Sofia   as  Peter Goltzen 1948-09-03
T-Men   as  'Shiv' Triano 1947-12-15
The Razor's Edge   as  Joseph - Gray & Isabel's Butler 1946-11-19
Tomorrow Is Forever   as  Dr. Ludwig 1946-02-20
Week-End at the Waldorf   as  Alex 1945-10-04
Strange Affair   as  Rudolph Kruger 1944-10-05
U-Boat Prisoner   as  Gunther Rudehoff, Gestapo Agent 1944-07-25
The Seventh Cross   as  Overkamp 1944-07-24
Sahara   as  Maj. von Falken 1943-09-22
The Boy from Stalingrad   as  German Major 1943-05-20
Mission to Moscow   as  Polish Ambassador Grzybowski (uncredited) 1943-04-29
Lucky Jordan   as  Herr Kesselman 1942-11-16
Sailors Three   as  German Captain 1940-12-14
Convoy   as  Commander Deutschland 1940-09-28
Night Train to Munich   as  KL Physician (uncredited) 1940-08-31
All Hands   as  German 1940-05-31
Dangerous Comment   as  German Radio Operator 1940-05-18
The Moon in the Yellow River   as  Tausch 1938-12-28
Bretter, die die Welt bedeuten   as  Paul Rainer 1935-02-01