John Wengraf
- Recitazione
- 22 aprile 1897 · Vienna, Austria-Hungary, now Austria
- 4 maggio 1974
Biografia
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 (1943/I), as well as The Boy from Stalingrad (1943), U-Boat Prisoner (1944) and Till We Meet Again (1944). In postwar years, he was often spotted portraying ethnic professionals (scientists, doctors, professors, foreign royalty). Some of the more quality pictures he enhanced were Tomorrow Is Forever (1946); Count Von Papen in 5 Fingers (1952); and Ronchin in the Ethel Merman musical Call Me Madam (1953). Although Wengraf never made it to the very top of the Hollywood character ranks, he remained a throughly strong and reliable player. In the 1950s and 1960s he transferred his talents to TV, appearing on a number of dramatic showcases and on such popular programs as "The Untouchables" (1959), "Hawaiian Eye" (1959), "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." (1964) and "The Time Tunnel" (1966). His last few films included minor roles in the war-themed Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), Hitler (1962) and Ship of Fools (1965). He retired in 1966, and died in Santa Barbara, California, at age 77, on May 4, 1974.
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Filmografia
- Jericho · Monseigneur Paul
- Kronos - Sfida al passato · Dr. Hans Kleinemann
- La nave dei folli · Graf
- The Rogues · Drozhin
- Intrigo a Stoccolma · Hans Eckhart
- La belva del secolo · Dr. Morell
- Vincitori e vinti · Karl Wieck
- Ritratto in nero · Dr. Kessler
- 12 to the Moon · Dr. Erich Heinrich
- The Detectives · Varchek
- Hawaiian Eye
- Bourbon Street Beat
- The Third Man
- One Step Beyond · Ernest, Felix Borgner
- Indirizzo permanente
- Bat Masterson · Colonel Anders Dorn
- Behind Closed Doors · Von Elm
- Il bacio dello spettro · John Merriman
- The Walter Winchell File
- The Disembodied · Dr. Carl Metz
- La donna del ranchero · Mr. Louis Horvat
- Orgoglio e passione · Sermaine
- Panico
- Le donne hanno sempre ragione · Dr. Krauss
- Telephone Time
- Come prima... meglio di prima · Prof. Zimmelman
- Matinee Theater
- Destino sull'asfalto · Dr. Tabor
- The Millionaire · Count Victor Turec
- Giocatore d'azzardo · Nicholas Cadiz
- Attacco alla base spaziale U.S. · Dr. Zeitman
- Paris Playboys · Vidal
- La linea francese · Commodore Renard
- Operazione mistero · Col. Schuman (uncredited)
- The Danny Thomas Show · Victor Waingraft
- I topi del deserto · German Doctor (uncredited)
- General Electric Theater
- You Are There · Dr. Zimmerman
- Il giustiziere dei tropici · Lukats
- Cavalcade of America · German Colonel, Von Schwarz
- Four Star Playhouse · Denoir
- Operazione "Cicero" · Count Franz Von Papen
- Missione pericolosa
- Lux Video Theatre · Landau, Max von Mayerling
- The Lovable Cheat · Pierquin
- La strega rossa · Prosecuting Attorney
- Sealed Verdict · German Doctor
- Sofia · Peter Goltzen
- T-men contro i fuorilegge · 'Shiv' Triano
- Il filo del rasoio · Joseph - Gray & Isabel's Butler
- Conta solo l'avvenire · Dr. Ludwig
- Week-End at the Waldorf · Alex
- Strange Affair · Rudolph Kruger
- L'estrema rinuncia · Gestapo Chief
- U-Boat Prisoner · Gunther Rudehoff, Gestapo Agent
- La settima croce · Overkamp
- Sahara · Maj. von Falken
- The Boy from Stalingrad · German Major
- Mission to Moscow · Polish Ambassador Grzybowski (uncredited)
- Il disertore · Herr Kesselman
- Sailors Three · German Captain
- Convoy · Commander Deutschland
- Night Train to Munich · KL Physician (uncredited)
- All Hands · German
- Dangerous Comment · German Radio Operator
- The Moon in the Yellow River · Tausch
- Bretter, die die Welt bedeuten · Paul Rainer