Wolf Kahler

Wolf Kahler
Born (1940-04-03) 3 April 1940 (age 84)
Kiel, German Reich
OccupationActor
Years active1975–present

Wolf Kahler (born 3 April 1940) is a German stage, film, television, and voice actor.[1][2][3]

Since 1975, he has appeared in many English-language American and British television and film productions.[4] One of his early roles was that of Kaiser Wilhelm II in Michael York's adventure film The Riddle of the Sands.[5] One of his best-known roles was that of Hermann Dietrich in Raiders of the Lost Ark.[2]

Among the characters he has voiced in video games is Kaiser Vlad in Battalion Wars.[6] Kahler played the Prince of Tübingen in Stanley Kubrick's 1975 film, Barry Lyndon.[2][7] In 2001, he played a Wehrmacht General in a television miniseries about World War II, Band of Brothers.[8] In the Clint Eastwood spy thriller Firefox (1982), Kahler played KGB chairman Yuri Andropov. In 2011 Kahler appeared as Dr. Hoffmanstahl in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.[2][9] In 2017, he played a German Commander in the Warner Bros./DCEU film Wonder Woman.[3]

Filmography[edit]

Film[edit]

Short films[edit]

  • 2008 Haber as Erich Ludendorff
  • 2010 Stasi Dog as the narrator
  • 2012 Cold Warrior as Bochinsky
  • 2016 Millefeuille as Hans-Peter (Opa)
  • 2016 Rubicon as Dirk Van de Cleef
  • 2020 Cognition as Dr. Zoger

Television[edit]

Video games[edit]

Thanks[edit]

  • 2012 Raiding the Lost Ark: A Filmumentary (special thanks)

Soundtrack[edit]

Radio[edit]

The Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican, a drama by Robin Glendinning, was first broadcast in 2006, on BBC Radio4. Kahler played Herbert Kappler, a Nazi war criminal, who is befriended in his cell by a Vatican priest; the story is based on the real-life adventures of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty.[11][12]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Wolf Kahler – Theatricalia". theatricalia.com. Archived from the original on 1 August 2018. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
  2. ^ a b c d "Wolf Kahler". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2014. Archived from the original on 24 January 2014.
  3. ^ a b "Wolf Kahler". BFI. Archived from the original on 16 September 2018. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
  4. ^ "Wolf Kahler – Movies and Filmography". AllMovie. Archived from the original on 1 August 2018. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
  5. ^ "The Riddle of the Sands (1978)". BFI. Archived from the original on 31 December 2022. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
  6. ^ "Wolf Kahler – Harvey Voices". Archived from the original on 25 June 2020. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
  7. ^ "Barry Lyndon (1975) – Stanley Kubrick – Cast and Crew". AllMovie. Archived from the original on 1 August 2018. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
  8. ^ "Wolf Kahler". www.aveleyman.com. Archived from the original on 1 August 2018. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
  9. ^ "Wolf Kahler – TV Guide". TVGuide.com. Archived from the original on 1 August 2018. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
  10. ^ Fraser, C. Gerald (7 March 1982). "Television Week". The New York Times. p. A2. Archived from the original on 27 November 2020. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
  11. ^ "The Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican". Imperial War Museums. Archived from the original on 1 August 2018. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
  12. ^ "Afternoon May: The Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican – BBC Radio 4 FM – 30 November 2006 – BBC Genome". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. 30 November 2006. Archived from the original on 1 August 2018. Retrieved 1 August 2018.

External links[edit]

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