Wolfgang Neuss
Wolfgang Neuss | |
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Born | Hans Wolfgang Otto Neuß[1] 3 December 1923 |
Died | 5 May 1989 | (aged 65)
Nationality | German |
Occupation(s) | Actor, comedian |
Wolfgang Neuss (3 December 1923 – 5 May 1989)[2] was a German actor and comedian. Beginning in the mid-1960s, he also became famous for his political engagement, first for the SPD, then for the extra-parliamentary opposition, APO. He died in 1989 from a longtime cancer.
At the age of 15 he went to Berlin to become a clown but was dismissed. When Germany entered into the Second World War Neuss was drafted, first to the Reich Labour Service where he was occupied with road construction. Later he was sent to the Eastern Front where he became injured and was rewarded with the Iron Cross. It was during his stays in military hospitals and, after the war during military detention that Neuss began to discover his interest in acting and for Kabarett.
Selected filmography
- de (1950)
- You Have to be Beautiful (1951)
- Pension Schöller (1952)
- Mikosch rückt ein (1952)
- I Lost My Heart in Heidelberg (1952)
- All Clues Lead to Berlin (1952)
- The Empress of China (1953)
- de (1954)
- On the Reeperbahn at Half Past Midnight (1954)
- Phantom des großen Zeltes (1954)
- Sergeant Borck (1955)
- Banditen der Autobahn (1955)
- My Leopold (1955)
- The Three from the Gas Station (1955)
- The Captain from Köpenick (1956)
- Zu Befehl, Frau Feldwebel (1956)
- de (1956)
- Tired Theodore (1957)
- The Spessart Inn (1958)
- The Muzzle (1958)
- The Star of Santa Clara (1958)
- The Green Devils of Monte Cassino (1958)
- Wir Wunderkinder (1958)
- Here I Am, Here I Stay (1959)
- The Night Before the Premiere (1959)
- de (1959)
- de (1959)
- Der lustige Krieg des Hauptmann Pedro (1959)
- Als geheilt entlassen (1960)
- We Cellar Children (1960)
- de (1962)
- de (1963)
- Dead Woman from Beverly Hills (1964)
- Serenade for Two Spies (1965)
- de (1967)
- de (1974)
Bibliography
- Bergfelder, Tim & Bock, Hans-Michael. The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopedia of German. Berghahn Books, 2009.
References
- ^ According to his ID-card as shown in documentation Neuss Deutschland – Querulant der Republik by Julia Oelkers & Peter Scholl, dated 2006
- ^ http://www.knerger.de/html/neusswolschauspieler_43.html
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