Siegfried Weiß

Siegfried Weiss (18 April 1906 – 8 October 1989) was an East German actor.

Biography Weiss made his artistic debut on the stage of the Halberstadt Theater, at 1924. He continued his career in the theaters of Lübeck, Königsberg, Magdeburg, Leipzig and Berlin, where he acted in the Berlin Ensemble, among others.

Weiss' film career started already in the Nazi era, with the 1937 Sherlock Holmes inspired movie Die Graue Dame (The Gray Lady), and had lasted for almost fifty years. After the Second World War he returned to acting on screen, working with the East German studio DEFA and with the television producers DFF. He appeared in more than fifty independent GDR productions and in co-productions with other Eastern Bloc countries, such as the epic movies Ernst Thaelmann, Karl Liebknecht and Liberation. He retired in 1984. Weiss retired at 1987, making his last appearance on stage in the Berlin Ensemble on 25 October that year.

Partial filmography

The Grey Lady (1937) - Ganove The Call of the Sea (1951) Die Unbesiegbaren (1953) - Kriminalbeamter Die Störenfriede (1953) - Erichs Vater Kein Hüsung (1954) - Graf Pfeil Alarm in Zirkus (1954) - Hepfield Ernst Thaelmann - Leader of his Class (1955) - industrialist Der Teufelskreis (1956) - Hanussen Zwischenfall in Benderath (1956) - Direktor Tappert Rivalen am Steuer (1957) - Alvarez Berlin – Ecke Schönhauser… (1957) - Fritz Erdmann Spielbank-Affäre (1957) - Balduin Gejagt bis zum Morgen (1957) - Eleganter Herr Sie kannten sich alle (1958) - Dr. Blei Der Prozeß wird vertagt (1958) Das Lied der Matrosen (1958) Erich Kubak (1959) - Egon Hempel Doctor Ahrendt's Decision (1960) - Kripphahn Der Traum des Hauptmann Loy (1961) - Colonel Nelson Henker - Der Tod hat ein Gesicht (1961) - Sekretär Das Stacheltier - Der Dieb von San Marengo (1963) - Syndikus der Hohlkörper AG Jetzt und in der Stunde meines Todes (1963) - Geschworener : Herr Meier Engel im Fegefeuer (1964) - Polizeioffizier Das Stacheltier - Das blaue Zimmer (1964) - (voice) The Story of a Murder (1965) - Dr. Rotholz Solange Leben in mir ist (1965) - Franz Mehring The Escape In The Silent (1966) - Juwelier Ohne Kampf kein Sieg (1966, TV Mini-Series) Ich - Axel Caesar Springer (1968, TV Series) Mohr und die Raben von London (1968) - Ender Der Mord, der nie verjährt (1968) - Prosecutor General Lebende Ware (1969) - Ferenc Chorin (1970) - Oberst am Klavier KLK Calling PTZ - The Red Orchestra (1971) - Canaris Husaren in Berlin (1971) - Gotzkowsky Liberation III: Direction of the Main Blow (1971) - Manstein Trotz alledem! (1972) Das zweite Leben des Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Platow (1973) - Obersekretär Dollwitz Зарево над Драва (1974) Take Aim (1975) - Niels Bohr Komödianten-Emil (1980) - Meyer sen. Die Gerechten von Kummerow (1982) - Amtsrichter Romeo and Julia auf dem Dorfe (1984) - Richter Polizeiruf 110 (1984, TV Series) - Alois Hauber