Theo Maria Werner
Theo Maria Werner (born May 15, 1925 in Munich ; † 1989 ) was a German film producer , film director , actor and screenwriter .
Life
Werner studied theater and newspaper studies in Munich for eight semesters and then became a feature section editor. Among other things, he wrote for Film-Woche and Film-Revue, was press officer at Union-Filmverleih and Columbia (also a dubbing author there) as well as successively dramaturge at the film companies Roxy and Bavaria .
He founded a PR office in Munich under the name Werner-Press and emerged as an author. In 1959 he worked as an actor in Yes, such a girl with 16 at the side of Cornelia Froboess and participated in song texts for The Frog with the Mask (1959) and I always want to belong to you (1960). He then wrote the scripts for two films.
He produced with his Parnassus film in the 1960s, mostly in cooperation with foreign co-producers several agent and adventure films including the multi-part adaptation of the successful novels about Commissioner X . Under the pseudonym "Werner Hauff" he wrote scripts and appeared as an actor. In 1969 Werner founded Regina-Film and in the 1980s Neue Reginafilm. Occasionally, he would direct the films he produced himself. He died of a heart attack and is buried in Munich's Westfriedhof .
As a director he used the pseudonym Werner Hauff .
Filmography
(as producer or production manager, unless otherwise stated)
- 1959: Yes, a girl like that at 16 (actor)
- 1960: My niece doesn't (script)
- 1962: Camp of the Damned (screenplay)
- 1964: Don't tell me anything (also screenplay and actor)
- 1966: Inspector X - Hunt for Unknown (also screenplay)
- 1966: Commissioner X - Three yellow cats (also actors)
- 1966: Inspector X - In the Claws of the Golden Dragon (also screenplay)
- 1966: Those who go through hell ( Las siete magníficas , also screenplay)
- 1967: Inspector X - Three green dogs
- 1967: Agent 3S3 puts everything on one card (also screenplay in the German version)
- 1967: The three supermen clean up ( I fantastici tre supermen , script only)
- 1967: Mister Dynamit - Tomorrow death kisses you (Executive Producer, also actor)
- 1968: Inspector X - Three Blue Panthers (also actors)
- 1968: Mister Ten Percent - Kitty and Moneten (also screenplay)
- 1968: Se incontri Sartana prega per la tua morte (screenplay)
- 1968: Three cheers to the paramedic Neumann
- 1968: Thunderstorm! Thunderstorm! Bonifatius Kiesewetter (also screenplay)
- 1969: Il Nero - hate was his prayer (L'odio è il mio Dio)
- 1969: Commissioner X - Three golden snakes
- 1969: The man with the golden brush
- 1969: Libido - The great lexicon of lust ( Le 10 meraviglie dell'amore , only direction and screenplay)
- 1971: Inspector X chases the red tigers (also script)
- 1974: Jungle Girl for Two Scoundrels (screenplay)
- 1974: The Stolen Sky (also director)
- 1975: I think I'll kick a horse (also direction and screenplay)
- 1977: 3 devils laugh at everything ( Mettetemi in galera , only script)
- 1978: Agents don't know tears (A chi tocca, tocca ...!)
- 1978: Götz von Berlichingen with the iron hand
- 1984: Nobody cries forever
- 1986: The stone of death
- 1987: Sri Lanka - Shining Land
Web links
- Literature by and about Theo Maria Werner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Theo Maria Werner in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Theo Maria Werner in the Internet Movie Database (English) as Werner Hauff
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interview with Herbert Fux
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Werner, Theo Maria |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hauff, Werner (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 15, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1989 |