John Wengraf

Interprète

Né·e le 22/04/1897 à Vienna, Austria-Hungary, now Austria

Emigrating to England in 1933 as the Nazis began their rise to power, Wengraf appeared unbilled in a couple of films there, as well as in some of the first BBC live-television shows ever presented but his career began to languish. In late 1941, however, he had the good fortune of appearing on Broadway with Helen Hayes in "Candle in the Wind" and decided to stay. The following year he headed west and settled permanently in the Los Angeles area. A dark, cold-eyed, thin-lipped player with a precise, meticulous air about him, he found himself invariably playing the very characters he detested. Some of his more nefarious nasties surfaced in such films as the Humphrey Bogart classic Sahara (1943/I), as well as The Boy from Stalingrad (1943), U-Boat Prisoner (1944) and Till We Meet Again (1944). In postwar years, he was often spotted portraying ethnic professionals (scientists, doctors, profes…

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Rôles marquants

8,0 Jugement à Nuremberg Film, 1961

5,6 The Return of Dracula Film, 1958

7,5 L'Affaire Cicéron Film, 1952

7,2 Sahara Film, 1943

6,0 Orgueil et passion Film, 1957

6,7 Pas de lauriers pour les tueurs Film, 1963

6,9 Le fil du rasoir Film, 1946

6,8 La Brigade du suicide Film, 1947

Gog Film, 1954

Demain viendra toujours Film, 1946

6,6 La Nef des fous Film, 1965

7,2 Train de nuit pour Munich Film, 1940

Filmographie complète

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