Date of birth: 1926-04-18
Place of birth: Bremen, Germany
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Guenter Meisner
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.

1971-06-29
When eccentric candy man Willy Wonka promises a lifetime supply of sweets and a tour of his chocolat

1985-11-28
The plan is simple: the three generals Weingarten, Ludovico and Klotz from San Chaco set a hitman on

1980-03-01
A husband is humiliated at home and at work. He decides he has had enough of it and hires a prostitu

1966-12-22
Colonel Stok, a Soviet intelligence officer responsible for security at the Berlin Wall, appears to

1974-10-23
Marseille. Heaps of flowers and funeral wreaths... "A man who no longer defends his colors is no lon

1986-08-06
A mysterious teenager named Ángelo cares for Klaus, a German doctor with a dark past who lives trapp
1971-11-11

1982-10-27
In this action comedy the French boxer Jo Cavalier is charmed on the train to Berlin for the Olympic

1990-07-28
Simon Templar and a newswoman track down the front man for a deadly corporate takeover.

1975-10-19
An American ex-WW II POW returns to Germany 30 years after the war. He teams up with the former comm

1979-10-27
A sartorially resplendent woman of few words arrives in Berlin with plans to live out the rest of he

1989-05-05
Adopted by a treacherous semi-scientific cult where extraordinary mental powers are common, extraord

1961-10-18
Bank accountant Thomas Lieven is forced to work as a triple agent for the British, the French and th

1992-12-12
Baseball cards and a food-aid worker help a woman follow her shady husband's money trail around the

1974-11-15
This film traces the career of Dr Edward Trenbow (Corin Redgrave), who becomes a well-respected Sydn

1988-11-25
Father Joseph Mohr, a newly appointed priest in the town of Oberndorf (near Salzburg), meets the bea

1984-06-20
Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken

1993-09-01
A group of angels look longingly upon the life of humans. Berlin now is a very different place: unif
1991-07-20
A hundred years after the theft from New Zealand of three irreplaceable tribal carvings, two Maori,

1973-11-09
Film about a group of young nazi terrorists commiting crimes after the end of World War 2.

1979-03-01
Starting in late May 1944, during the German retreat on the Eastern Front, Captain Stransky (Helmut

1982-10-08
An East German man finds a way to cross the border between East and West Berlin. But when he succeed

1966-10-26
Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it be

1974-10-17
Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, investigative journalist Peter Miller sets out to hu

1970-11-24
A scientist is persuaded by the government to inject himself with the brain fluid of a dying colleag

1978-10-05
Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot, masterminded by Dr. Josef Mengele,

1979-09-27
CIA agent Harry Wargrave is sent to aid Gen. Marenkov, a senior Russian official, who is defecting t

1982-02-05
Two men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they can ta

1966-11-10
After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi

1969-06-25
In March of 1945, as the War in Europe is coming to a close, fighting erupts between German and Amer

1973-07-03
The headquarters of the Marshal Tito's Liberation Army are surrounded by Axis forces. The Partisans

1976-12-22
A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.

1977-10-28
In 1923 Berlin, following the suicide of his brother, an American acrobat struggles to survive while

1959-09-18
Comedy about a naive French country girl in London who helps the war effort by parachuting into Germ

1962-04-13
Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infil

1986-05-18
1982-01-01

1983-08-26
The Prinz-Eugen-Gymnasium is in a crisis, which is not least due to the insolent students who lack a

1980-03-14
Gibbi Westgermany is the name of a former sailor with a Mick Jagger look—leather jacket over the bar
1975-07-24
Diary of a Disease - prophesied that all psychiatric experience speaks against the described spontan

1988-03-25
The filmmaker René Perraudin made five comedic short films with Otto Sander in the leading role and

1986-01-01
Two shady businessmen set out to shake up the West Berlin funeral industry - with unconventional ide
1978-12-25
Anna is a Jewish girl in Germany. When the Nazis come to power in the 1930s, her family has to flee
1994-12-16
1980-01-01

1977-01-11
Sex, violence, and family secrets in the German countryside.

1975-01-29
A disturbed young woman is kept prisoner in a castle by her aunt for her money. The game-keeper, her
1991-01-01

1989-03-02
After the death of his mother, a lonely farmer in rural Switzerland considers finally starting a fam
1980-01-01
1990-10-26
Gunter Wallraff is a journalist seeking to expose the unethical journalism practiced by The Standard

1975-06-30
Manfred, a lathe operator, and Manuela, a seamstress, marry and try to find happiness together. They

1990-01-01
1981-01-04
1970-02-11
1979-01-04
1984-07-25
1978-08-11

1974-08-09
Born into a well-off family, Franz Blum had led a carefree youth until, some time after graduating f
1965-05-05
Germany, January 1939: a day in a concentration camp. Subjected to harsh military discipline the hun
1959-03-24
After a carnival celebration, young Erika Hansen is offered a lift by two young men in a car. The me

1966-01-29

1961-09-28
Suspenseful story of a boy and his father, each forced to decide his future on his willingness to st
1960-12-01
1967-06-20
1963-06-11

1961-07-03
The ardent prayer of a monk brings about a true miracle in a West German industrial town, which, how
1962-06-20

1964-05-22
A killer terrorizes the small German town of Hainsburg. The police moves in to investigate the crime

1959-10-15
1933 in Germany. The rise of Nazism fears war and some officers, concerned the fate that hostilities
1961-02-09
1964-07-04
1959-12-01

1959-10-01
After a line of mischief Philip Gale, an American sailor, is lured into hiring on the "Yorikke", a t
1957-08-19

1967-08-11
Police try to track down a hooded serial killer who murders his victims with a combination of acid a

1963-05-16
After a truck carrying a cargo of narcotics is held up by rival smugglers, the driver sets out to pr

1990-02-12
Alex, a sought-after professional photographer, is involved in a mysterious series of murders that a
1968-10-18

1962-09-06
Dr. Mabuse has been locked away for years in an insane asylum. Suddenly crimes start occurring and n

1988-09-23
Thierry drops out of school to apprentice as a lion tamer at the zoo where he meets Roselyne, who sh

1977-10-13
The life and struggles of the German writer Heinrich von Kleist.
1964-05-19
Poetic fable about the sophisticated rape of civil rights by a totalitarian power. The orderly exist
1987-02-28
Secret agents from the East and the West scheme to obtain an ingenious invention.

1979-05-02
In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of