Werner Pledath

Werner Pledath
Born	26 April 1898 Berlin, German Empire
Died	6 December 1965 West Berlin, West Germany
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1923 - 1965 (film)

Werner Pledath (1898–1965) was a German actor who appeared in many films during a lengthy career. He generally played supporting roles such as in Five from the Jazz Band (1932). Pledath specialized in playing powerful, authority figures. Following the Second World War he appeared in several films made in East Germany.

Selected filmography

• The Street Song (1931)
• Who Takes Love Seriously? (1931)
• Dreaming Lips (1932)
• I by Day, You by Night (1932)
• Five from the Jazz Band (1932)
• Scandal in Budapest (1933)
• Mother and Child (1934)
• The Higher Command (1935)
• Port Arthur (1936)
• Savoy Hotel 217 (1936)
• Victoria in Dover (1936)
• White Slaves (1937)
• Triad (1938)
• Red Orchids (1938)
• The Muzzle (1938)
• By a Silken Thread (1938)
• A Prussian Love Story (1938)
• Robert Koch (1939)
• Our Miss Doctor (1940)
• Diesel (1942)
• Circus Renz (1943)
• The Degenhardts (1944)
• The Benthin Family (1950)
• The Condemned Village (1952)
• Anna Susanna (1953)
• Ernst Thälmann (1954)

Bibliography

• Youngkin, Stephen. The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre. University Press of Kentucky, 2005.

External links

• Werner Pledath at IMDb