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Heinz Weiss

Acting Born Jun 12, 1921 Stuttgart; Germany 24 credits

Biography

Heinz Weiss (12 June 1921 – 20 November 2010) was a German film actor.

Weiss is best known for playing the role of Phil Decker in the Jerry Cotton series of films and the role of Captain Heinz Hansen in Das Traumschiff. He also played the character "Kramer" in the iconic World War II film The Great Escape (1963). He himself had served in German military, the Wehrmacht, during World War II.

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  • Scene of the Crime (1970) as Georg Kastrup
  • Scene of the Crime (1970) as Dr. Münzer
  • Das Traumschiff (1981) as Mr. Hansen
  • Das Traumschiff (1981) as Heinz Hansen
  • Zum blauen Bock (1957) as Self
  • Die Schwarzwaldklinik (1985) as Baden-Württembergs Ministerpräsident
  • The Great Escape (1963) as Kramer
  • Das Kriminalmuseum (1963) as Polizeiinspektor Grabert
  • Das Kriminalmuseum (1963) as Kommissar Widmann
  • The Winds of War (1983) as Heinz Guderian
  • Peter the Great (1986) as Austrian Doctor
  • Christopher Columbus (1985) as Noscomb
  • Die fünfte Kolonne (1963) as Lehmann
  • Die fünfte Kolonne (1963) as Dr. Bucher
  • Graf Luckner (1971) as Kapitän Luckner
  • Immenhof (1994) as Peter 'PS' Stahl
  • Immenhof (1994) as Peter Stahl
  • Intercontinental-Express (1966) as Robert
  • Peter Alexander: Wir gratulieren (1979) as Self
  • Die Kur (1978) as Wagner
  • Jerry Cotton: Death and Diamonds (1968) as Phil Decker
  • Die Protokolle des Herrn M (1979) as Schröder
  • Des Christoffel von Grimmelshausen abenteuerlicher Simplizissimus (1975) as Zullewitz
  • The Little Drummer Girl (1984) as Red Cross