Wolf Kahler | |
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Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1975–present |
Wolf Kahler (born 3 April 1940) is a German stage, film, television, and voice actor.[1][2][3]
Since 1975, he has appeared in many English-language American and British television and film productions.[4] One of his early roles was that of Kaiser Wilhelm II in Michael York's adventure film The Riddle of the Sands.[5] One of his best-known roles was that of Hermann Dietrich in Raiders of the Lost Ark.[2]
Among the characters he has voiced in video games is Kaiser Vlad in Battalion Wars.[6] Kahler played the Prince of Tübingen in Stanley Kubrick's 1975 film, Barry Lyndon.[2][7] In 2001, he played a Wehrmacht General in a television miniseries about World War II, Band of Brothers.[8] In the Clint Eastwood spy thriller Firefox (1982), Kahler played KGB chairman Yuri Andropov. In 2011 Kahler appeared as Dr. Hoffmanstahl in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.[2][9] In 2017, he played a German Commander in the Warner Bros./DCEU film Wonder Woman.[3]
Filmography
Film
- 1975 Barry Lyndon as Prince of Tübingen
- 1976 The Eagle Has Landed as SS Hauptsturmführer Fleischer (uncredited)[citation needed]
- 1977 March or Die as first German
- 1978 Force 10 from Navarone as German soldier at supply dump
- 1978 The Boys from Brazil as Schwimmer
- 1979 The Riddle of the Sands as Kaiser Wilhelm II
- 1979 The Lady Vanishes as Helmut von Reider
- 1980 Rough Cut as De Gooyer
- 1980 The Sea Wolves as Trompeta
- 1981 At the Fountainhead as Wolfgang Leonhard
- 1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark as Colonel Hermann Dietrich
- 1981 Priest of Love as German officer
- 1982 Firefox as KGB Chairman Andropov
- 1982 Remembrance as Dutch Matelot
- 1983 High Road to China as Von Hess
- 1983 Ascendancy as Muller
- 1983 The Keep as SS adjutant
- 1985 A Zed & Two Noughts as Felipe Arc-en-Ciel
- 1988 The Bourne Identity as Gold Glasses
- 1992 Shining Through as border commandant
- 1993 The Remains of the Day as German ambassador
- 1994 Backbeat as Bert Kaempfert
- 1996 Loch Ness as Dr. Muller
- 1997 Firelight as Sussman
- 2000 Britannic as Captain Kruger
- 2001 The Lost Battalion as General Von Sybel
- 2001 Charlotte Gray as Oberleutenant Lindermann
- 2004 Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason as Commentator
- 2010 Shanghai as German consul
- 2011 Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows as Dr. Hoffmanstahl
- 2012 Full Firearms as Adam
- 2012 Cockneys vs Zombies as Nazi officer
- 2017 Wonder Woman as German commander
- 2017 Damascus Cover as Colonel Ludwig Streicher
- 2023 The Great Escaper as Heinrich
Short films
- 2008 Haber as Erich Ludendorff
- 2010 Stasi Dog as the narrator
- 2012 Cold Warrior as Bochinsky
- 2016 Millefeuille as Hans-Peter (Opa)
- 2016 Rubicon as Dirk Van de Cleef
- 2020 Cognition as Dr. Zoger
Television
- 1980 Don Siegel: Last of the Independents as himself
- 1980 The Sandbaggers as Lincke
- 1982 The Secret Adversary as the German
- 1982 Hess as Rudolf Hess[10]
- 1984 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes as King of Bohemia
- 1985 Space as Funkhauser
- 1985 The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission as General Sepp Dietrich
- 1987 The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission as Colonel Krieger
- 1987 A Perfect Spy as Lieutenant Dollendorf
- 1988 War and Remembrance as SS Major Anton Burger
- 1992 The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles as German second at duel
- 1993 Soldier Soldier as Dr. Heller
- 1999 Kavanagh QC as Dieter Klausen
- 2000 Dalziel and Pascoe as Jurgen Falke
- 2001 Band of Brothers as German general
- 2001 Red Cap as General Joachim Ulmke
- 2004 London as German traveller
- 2005 The Girl in the Café (TV) as Herr Gerhardt
- 2006 The Somme - From Defeat to Victory as General Hans von Plessen
- 2008 George Gently – Bomber's Moon as Gunter Schmeikel
- 2014 Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond as Admiral Brandel
- 2019 BBC Look North (Yorkshire and North Midlands) as himself
- 2019 The Mallorca Files as Hans Weber
Video games
- 1998 Metal Gear Solid as Donald Anderson / Revolver Ocelot / Jim Houseman (German dub)
- 1999 Syphon Filter as Thomas Markinson (German dub)
- 2003 Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness as Grant Muller
- 2004 Half-Life 2 as Dr. Wallace Breen (German dub)
- 2005 Battalion Wars as Kaiser Vlad
- 2007 Battalion Wars 2 as Kaiser Vlad / Lord Ferrok
- 2008 The Club as Enemy Characters
- 2009 IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey as German Voice
- 2010 Kirby's Epic Yarn as The Narrator (German Version)
- 2011 Crysis 2 as Karl Ernst Rasch (German & English dub)
- 2013 Crysis 3 as Karl Ernst Rasch (German & English dub)
- 2013 Company of Heroes 2 as German Announcer
- 2015 Calvino Noir as Arno
- 2017 Raid: World War II as Dr. Maximillion Reihnhart
- 2018 Call of Cthulhu: The Official Video Game as Thomas Fuller
- 2019 Close to the Sun as Aubrey King
Thanks
- 2012 Raiding the Lost Ark: A Filmumentary (special thanks)
Soundtrack
- 2008 Inspector George Gently (performer: The Lambton Worm Song – Episode: "Bomber's Moon")
Radio
The Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican, a drama by Robin Glendinning, was first broadcast in 2006, on BBC Radio4. Kahler played Herbert Kappler, a Nazi war criminal, who is befriended in his cell by a Vatican priest; the story is based on the real-life adventures of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty.[11][12]
References
- ^ "Wolf Kahler – Theatricalia". theatricalia.com. Archived from the original on 1 August 2018. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
- ^ a b c d "Wolf Kahler". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2014. Archived from the original on 24 January 2014.
- ^ a b "Wolf Kahler". BFI. Archived from the original on 16 September 2018. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
- ^ "Wolf Kahler – Movies and Filmography". AllMovie. Archived from the original on 1 August 2018. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
- ^ "The Riddle of the Sands (1978)". BFI. Archived from the original on 31 December 2022. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
- ^ "Wolf Kahler – Harvey Voices". Archived from the original on 25 June 2020. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
- ^ "Barry Lyndon (1975) – Stanley Kubrick – Cast and Crew". AllMovie. Archived from the original on 1 August 2018. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
- ^ "Wolf Kahler". www.aveleyman.com. Archived from the original on 1 August 2018. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
- ^ "Wolf Kahler – TV Guide". TVGuide.com. Archived from the original on 1 August 2018. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
- ^ Fraser, C. Gerald (7 March 1982). "Television Week". The New York Times. p. A2. Archived from the original on 27 November 2020. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
- ^ "The Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican". Imperial War Museums. Archived from the original on 1 August 2018. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
- ^ "Afternoon May: The Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican – BBC Radio 4 FM – 30 November 2006 – BBC Genome". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. 30 November 2006. Archived from the original on 1 August 2018. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
External links
- Wolf Kahler at IMDb