About Albert Welling
Born 1952. Albert Welling is a British actor and television actor.
Albert Welling (born 29 February 1952) is a British actor. He has appeared in a number of television series including The Line of Beauty, Cribb, Z-Cars, The Sweeney, Rumpole of the Bailey, The Bretts, Inspector Morse and A Touch of Frost.
Career He made his stage debut in Zigger Zagger in 1967 with the National Youth Theatre. In 1979 he played Keith Everly, a recurring character, in the BBC drama series Telford's Change.
His film credits include Backbeat, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's directorial debut Cemetery Junction and Wilde. He portrayed Adolf Hitler in an episode of Doctor Who entitled "Let's Kill Hitler", and later was cast as Winston Churchill in the Netflix series Kennedy. He played Max Pruss, in the documentary Hindenburg: The Untold Story.
In 2013, Welling wrote and starred in the play No Direction alongside Ronnie Toms; the play was premièred at the Edinburgh Festival. No Direction was directed by Bob Golding and ran for the duration of the festival at Assembly Three, George Square.
Filmography Film YearTitleRoleNotes 2005 Mangal Pandey: The Rising Lord Charles Canning 2019 The Good Liar German Industrialist 2021 Mothering Sunday Mr. Paxton
Television YearTitleRoleNotes 2006 Holby City Dr. Klaus Hafner Episode: "Moondance" 2007 Hindenburg: Titanic of the Skies Captain Pruss Television movie 2008 Midsomer Murders Ron Wilson Episode: "Left for Dead" 2011 Doctor Who Adolf Hitler Episode: "Let's Kill Hitler" 2017 Taboo Count Musgrove Episode: "#1.5" 2018 Outlander Pastor Gottfried Episode: "Savages" 2019 Traitors Brigadier Moss Episode: "Feef" 2019 Succession Paul Dodds Episode: "Return" 2019 Catherine the Great German Ambassador Episode: "#1.4" 2023 Stonehouse Cliff Michelmore Episode: #1.1" 2023 FBI: International Simon Ballack Episode: "Glimmers and Ghosts" 2024 Mr Bates vs The Post Office Judge Harvey Television miniseries
Video games YearTitleRoleNotes 2017 Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2 (voice)
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British actor
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Albert Welling was born on 29 February 1952 in London.
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