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Wolf Kahler

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Wolf Kahler
Born (1940-04-03) 3 April 1940 (age 84)
Kiel, German Reich
OccupationActor
Years active1975–present

Wolf Kahler (born 3 April 1940) is a German character actor in stage, film, television, and voice actor.[1][2][3]

Early life

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Kahler was born in Kiel in Germany.

Career

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With blue eyes and height of 6'2" (1.88m), Kahler was often chosen to play unsympathetic German characters or Nazis.

He appeared in the British production of the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes as the young Bohemian king in "A Scandal in Bohemia" and in "A Game of Shadows".

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]

Personal life

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Kahler is an expatriate living in England.

Filmography

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Film

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Short films

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  • 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

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Video games

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Thanks

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  • 2012 Raiding the Lost Ark: A Filmumentary (special thanks)

Soundtrack

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Radio

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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

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  1. ^ "Wolf Kahler – Theatricalia". theatricalia.com. Archived from the original on 1 August 2018. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
  2. ^ a b c d "Wolf Kahler". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2014. Archived from the original on 24 January 2014.
  3. ^ a b "Wolf Kahler". BFI. Archived from the original on 16 September 2018. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
  4. ^ "Wolf Kahler – Movies and Filmography". AllMovie. Archived from the original on 1 August 2018. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
  5. ^ "The Riddle of the Sands (1978)". BFI. Archived from the original on 31 December 2022. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
  6. ^ "Wolf Kahler – Harvey Voices". Archived from the original on 25 June 2020. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
  7. ^ "Barry Lyndon (1975) – Stanley Kubrick – Cast and Crew". AllMovie. Archived from the original on 1 August 2018. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
  8. ^ "Wolf Kahler". www.aveleyman.com. Archived from the original on 1 August 2018. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
  9. ^ "Wolf Kahler – TV Guide". TVGuide.com. Archived from the original on 1 August 2018. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ "The Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican". Imperial War Museums. Archived from the original on 1 August 2018. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
  12. ^ "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.
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