Wolf Kahler  | |
|---|---|
| Born | 3 April 1940 | 
| Occupation | Actor | 
| Years active | 1975–present | 
Wolf Kahler (born 3 April 1940) is a German stage, film, television, and voice actor.[1][2][3]
Since 1975, he appeared in many English language US and UK television and film productions.[4] One of his early roles was Kaiser Wilhelm II in Michael York's adventure film The Riddle of the Sands.[5] One of his most well-known roles was that of Hermann Dietrich in Raiders of the Lost Ark.[2]
His voice also appeared in video games including as 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 portrayed a Wehrmacht General in the World War II TV miniseries, Band of Brothers.[8] In the 1982 Clint Eastwood spy thriller Firefox, he played KGB chairman Yuri Andropov. In 2011 Kahler appeared as Dr. Hoffmanstahl in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.[2][9] In 2017, he appeared as a German Commander in the Warner Bros./DCEU film Wonder Woman.[3]
Filmography
Film
- 1975 Barry Lyndon as Prince of Tübingen
 - 1976 The Eagle Has Landed as SS Hauptsturmführer Fleischer (uncredited)
 - 1977 March or Die as first German
 - 1978 Force 10 from Navarone as German soldier at supply dump
 - 1978 The Boys from Brazil as Schwimmer
 - 1979 The Riddle of the Sands as Kaiser Wilhelm II
 - 1979 The Lady Vanishes as Helmut von Reider
 - 1980 Rough Cut as De Gooyer
 - 1980 The Sea Wolves as Trompeta
 - 1981 At the Fountainhead as Wolfgang Leonhard
 - 1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark as Colonel Hermann Dietrich
 - 1981 Priest of Love as German officer
 - 1982 Firefox as KGB Chairman Andropov
 - 1982 Remembrance as Dutch Matelot
 - 1983 High Road to China as Von Hess
 - 1983 Ascendancy as Muller
 - 1983 The Keep as SS adjutant
 - 1985 A Zed & Two Noughts as Felipe Arc-en-Ciel
 - 1988 The Bourne Identity as Gold Glasses
 - 1992 Shining Through as border commandant
 - 1993 The Remains of the Day as German ambassador
 - 1994 Backbeat as Bert Kaempfert
 - 1996 Loch Ness as Dr. Muller
 - 1997 Firelight as Sussman
 - 2000 Britannic as Captain Kruger
 - 2001 The Lost Battalion as General Von Sybel
 - 2001 Charlotte Gray as Oberleutenant Lindermann
 - 2004 Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason as Commentator
 - 2010 Shanghai as German consul
 - 2011 Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows as Dr. Hoffmanstahl
 - 2012 Full Firearms as Adam
 - 2012 Cockneys vs Zombies as Nazi officer
 - 2017 Wonder Woman as German commander
 - 2017 Damascus Cover as Colonel Ludwig Streicher
 - 2023 The Great Escaper as Heinrich
 
Short films
- 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
- 1980 Don Siegel: Last of the Independents as himself
 - 1980 The Sandbaggers as Lincke
 - 1982 The Secret Adversary as the German
 - 1982 Hess as Rudolf Hess[10]
 - 1984 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes as King of Bohemia
 - 1985 Space as Funkhauser
 - 1985 The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission as General Sepp Dietrich
 - 1987 The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission as Colonel Krieger
 - 1987 A Perfect Spy as Lieutenant Dollendorf
 - 1988 War and Remembrance as SS Major Anton Burger
 - 1992 The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles as German second at duel
 - 1993 Soldier Soldier as Dr. Heller
 - 1999 Kavanagh QC as Dieter Klausen
 - 2000 Dalziel and Pascoe as Jurgen Falke
 - 2001 Band of Brothers as German general
 - 2001 Red Cap as General Joachim Ulmke
 - 2004 London as German traveller
 - 2005 The Girl in the Café (TV) as Herr Gerhardt
 - 2006 The Somme - From Defeat to Victory as General Hans von Plessen
 - 2008 George Gently – Bomber's Moon as Gunter Schmeikel
 - 2014 Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond as Admiral Brandel
 - 2019 BBC Look North (Yorkshire and North Midlands) as himself
 - 2019 The Mallorca Files as Hans Weber
 
Video games
- 1998 Metal Gear Solid as Donald Anderson / Revolver Ocelot / Jim Houseman (German dub)
 - 1999 Syphon Filter as Thomas Markinson (German dub)
 - 2003 Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness as Grant Muller
 - 2004 Half-Life 2 as Dr. Wallace Breen (German dub)
 - 2005 Battalion Wars as Kaiser Vlad
 - 2007 Battalion Wars 2 as Kaiser Vlad / Lord Ferrok
 - 2008 The Club as Enemy Characters
 - 2009 IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey as German Voice
 - 2010 Kirby's Epic Yarn as The Narrator (German Version)
 - 2011 Crysis 2 as Karl Ernst Rasch (German & English dub)
 - 2013 Crysis 3 as Karl Ernst Rasch (German & English dub)
 - 2013 Company of Heroes 2 as German Announcer
 - 2015 Calvino Noir as Arno
 - 2017 Raid: World War II as Dr. Maximillion Reihnhart
 - 2018 Call of Cthulhu: The Official Video Game as Thomas Fuller
 - 2019 Close to the Sun as Aubrey King
 
Thanks
- 2012 Raiding the Lost Ark: A Filmumentary (special thanks)
 
Soundtrack
- 2008 Inspector George Gently (performer: The Lambton Worm Song – Episode: "Bomber's Moon")
 
Radio
The Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican was first broadcast in 2006 on BBC Radio4. He played Herbert Kappler. This was a drama by Robin Glendinning: a Nazi war criminal is befriended by a Vatican priest in his cell, based on the real-life adventures of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty.[11][12]
References
- ↑ "Wolf Kahler – Theatricalia". theatricalia.com. Archived from the original on 1 August 2018. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
 - 1 2 3 4 "Wolf Kahler". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2014. Archived from the original on 24 January 2014.
 - 1 2 "Wolf Kahler". BFI. Archived from the original on 16 September 2018. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
 - ↑ "Wolf Kahler – Movies and Filmography". AllMovie. Archived from the original on 1 August 2018. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
 - ↑ "The Riddle of the Sands (1978)". BFI. Archived from the original on 31 December 2022. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
 - ↑ "Wolf Kahler – Harvey Voices". Archived from the original on 25 June 2020. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
 - ↑ "Barry Lyndon (1975) – Stanley Kubrick – Cast and Crew". AllMovie. Archived from the original on 1 August 2018. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
 - ↑ "Wolf Kahler". www.aveleyman.com. Archived from the original on 1 August 2018. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
 - ↑ "Wolf Kahler – TV Guide". TVGuide.com. Archived from the original on 1 August 2018. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
 - ↑ 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.
 - ↑ "The Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican". Imperial War Museums. Archived from the original on 1 August 2018. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
 - ↑ "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
- Wolf Kahler at IMDb