Werner Pledath (26 April 1898 – 6 December 1965) was a German actor who appeared in many films during a lengthy career. He generally played
supporting role
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s such as in ''
Five from the Jazz Band'' (1932).
[Youngkin p.465] Pledath specialized in playing powerful, authority figures. Following the
Second World War
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he appeared in several films made in
East Germany
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.
Selected filmography
* ''
Man by the Wayside'' (1923)
* ''
The Street Song'' (1931)
* ''
Who Takes Love Seriously?'' (1931)
* ''
Dreaming Lips'' (1932)
* ''
I by Day, You by Night
''I by Day, You by Night'' () is a 1932 German musical comedy film directed by Ludwig Berger and starring Käthe von Nagy and Willy Fritsch. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios and on location at the Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam. The film' ...
'' (1932)
* ''
Things Are Getting Better Already'' (1932)
* ''
Five from the Jazz Band'' (1932)
* ''
The Invisible Front'' (1932)
* ''
Scandal in Budapest'' (1933)
* ''
Today Is the Day
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'' (1933)
* ''
Mother and Child
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'' (1934)
* ''
The Higher Command'' (1935)
* ''
The Valiant Navigator'' (1935)
* ''
Pygmalion'' (1935)
* ''
The Saint and Her Fool'' (1935)
* ''
Port Arthur'' (1936)
* ''
Savoy Hotel 217'' (1936)
* ''
Victoria in Dover'' (1936)
* ''
White Slaves'' (1937)
* ''
Dangerous Crossing'' (1937)
* ''
Mother Song'' (1937)
*''
The Chief Witness'' (1937)
* ''
Triad'' (1938)
* ''
Red Orchids'' (1938)
* ''
The Night of Decision'' (1938)
* ''
The Muzzle'' (1938)
* ''
By a Silken Thread'' (1938)
* ''
A Prussian Love Story'' (1938)
* ''
Escape in the Dark'' (1939)
* ''
Police Report
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'' (1939)
* ''
In the Name of the People'' (1939)
* ''
Robert Koch
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'' (1939)
* ''
A Hopeless Case'' (1939)
* ''
The Governor'' (1939)
* ''
Our Miss Doctor'' (1940)
* ''
The Three Codonas'' (1940)
* ''
Diesel'' (1942)
* ''
Between Heaven and Earth'' (1942)
* ''
Circus Renz'' (1943)
* ''
The Golden Spider'' (1943)
* ''
Laugh Bajazzo'' (1943)
* ''
The Degenhardts'' (1944)
* ''
Street Acquaintances'' (1948)
* ''
Thank You, I'm Fine'' (1948)
* ''
The Blue Swords'' (1949)
* ''
The Appeal to Conscience'' (1949)
* ''
The Benthin Family'' (1950)
* ''
The Last Year
''The Last Year'' () is a 1951 East German drama film directed by E.W. Fiedler and Hans Heinrich (director), Hans Heinrich and starring Inge Keller, Hans Klering and Hermann Stövesand.Reimer p.21 It was made by the state-controlled DEFA in commun ...
'' (1951)
* ''
The Condemned Village'' (1952)
* ''
Anna Susanna'' (1953)
* ''
Ernst Thälmann
Ernst Johannes Fritz Thälmann (; 16 April 1886 – 18 August 1944) was a German communist politician and leader of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) from 1925 to 1933.
A committed communist, Thälmann sought to overthrow the liberal democr ...
'' (1954)
References
Bibliography
* Youngkin, Stephen. ''The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre''. University Press of Kentucky, 2005.
External links
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1898 births
1965 deaths
Male actors from Berlin
German male film actors
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