Werner Lieven
Werner Gottfried Lieven (born October 15, 1909 in Dresden , † March 7, 1968 in Munich ) was a German actor , radio play and voice actor .
Life
Werner Lieven first attended high school and the conservatory in his home town of Dresden. He then attended university and passed his theological exam . Then, in 1933, he immediately got a job as a Protestant pastor . He held his office until 1939. But since he was interested in acting, he took acting lessons from that year. In order to be able to finance his studies, he also worked as a transport driver. But in 1941 he had to break off his studies because he was drafted into the armed forces. After the war he got an engagement at the State Theater in Dresden . In 1946 he moved to the Schlossparktheater in Berlin. From 1947 to 1950 he was under contract at the Bavarian State Theater in Munich .
In the following years he made guest appearances and appeared more often in feature films. He was mostly seen in smaller or larger supporting roles. He often embodied southern types. For example, he was seen in the Zarah Leander film Cuba Cabana in 1952 or in the double films Stars About Colombo and The Prisoners of the Maharajah in 1954 . A role that was certainly tailor-made for him was that of a Protestant pastor in the 1964 feature film Password… Heron . He played his most famous role in television. He was one of the main actors in the 1960 five-part television film On the Green Beach of the Spree by director Fritz Umgelter based on the novel of the same name by Hans Scholz . At that time it was one of the first big street sweeps on the still young German television.
The main focus of his artistic work, however, lay in the field of dubbing foreign language films. In this medium he was one of the busiest actors in Germany for about 20 years. Here he also often spoke the main roles. He worked in the studios in Hamburg , Berlin , Remagen and Munich . He was also heard more often in radio plays, for example as Inspector Kingston in the sixth crime novel in his Paul Temple series, produced by WDR in 1956, entitled Paul Temple and the Gilbert case by Francis Durbridge , with René Deltgen , Annemarie Cordes and Kurt Lieck and Peter René Körner .
Werner Lieven was married to the editor and painter Gertraut Lieven (1911–1985), with whom he had two children. Until recently he lived in the community of Grünwald near Munich . His grave is in the Grünwald Forest Cemetery , Department 1, Grave 47a. He was originally buried in Division 3, Grave 37.
Synchronized work (selection)
- Warren William as Charles d'Artagnan in The Man in the Iron Mask ( The Man in the Iron Mask )
- Gino Cervi as Peppone in four of five Don Camillo films
- Oliver Hardy in the 1949 dubbed version of On High Seas
- Alec Guinness as Marcus Aurelius in The Fall of the Roman Empire
- Orson Welles as pastor in Moby Dick
- Karius in Karius and Baktus
- James Cagney as Mr. MacNamara in One, Two, Three
- Sig Ruman as group leader Erhardt (concentration camp-Erhardt) in To Be or Not to be and as NCO Schulz in Stalag 17
- Rod Steiger as Al Capone in Al Capone
- Ed Begley as Juror 10 in The Twelve Jurors
- Louis de Funès as Scapin in Fracass, the cheeky cavalier
- Folco Lulli as Luigi in Wages of Fear
- Cecil Parker as Bob Matthews in 23 Steps to the Abyss
- Nehemiah Persoff as Little Bonaparte in Some Like It Hot
- Peter Ustinov as Captain Vere in The Damned of the Seas
- Lino Ventura as Angelo in When Night falls in Paris
- Robert Strauss as Kruhulik in The 7th Year Itch
- Edward G. Robinson as Louis Chamalis in San Francisco in gold fever
- Billy Gilbert as Field Marshal Hering in The Great Dictator
Filmography
- 1949: Hans im Glück - Director: Peter Hamel
- 1952: Cuba Cabana (Pedro) - Director: Fritz Peter Buch
- 1953: The Golden Goose (Court Marshal) - Director: Walter Oehmichen
- 1953: Arlette conquers Paris (M. Boiret) - Director: Viktor Tourjansky
- 1953: Young heart full of love (Italian landlord) - Director: Paul May
- 1953: Stars over Colombo (rice trader) - Director: Veit Harlan
- 1954: The Prisoner of the Maharajah - continuation of Stars About Colombo
- 1955: Parole Heimat (Reinhold) - Director: Hans F. Wilhelm
- 1955: The Double Husband - Director: Ferdinand Dörfler
- 1955: Women around Richard Wagner - Director: William Dieterle
- 1956: Santa Lucia - Director: Werner Jacobs
- 1957: Gynecologist Dr. Bertram - Director: Werner Klingler
- 1960: Die Irre von Chaillot (Broker) - Movie made for TV - Director: Harry Buckwitz
- 1960: On the green beach of the Spree (Hans Schott) - TV multi-part - Director: Fritz Umgelter
- 1961: Cancan and Bakarole - Movie made for TV - Director: Arthur Maria Rabenalt
- 1961: Flimmerparade - Director: Johannes Häussler
- 1962: The Marquis of Keith (Saranieff) - Movie made for TV - Director: Axel Corti
- 1962: The black-white-red four-poster bed - Director: Rolf Thiele
- 1963: The fifth column ; Result: The yellow package (police sergeant) - Director: Jürgen Goslar
- 1963: The Impresario von Smyrna - Movie made for TV - Director: Arthur Maria Rabenalt
- 1963: Vacation from Me - Director: Hans Grimm
- 1963: The card with the lynx head - TV series - Director: Hermann Kugelstadt
- 1964: One beautiful day (Bertram Krogull) - TV movie - Director: Dieter Munck
- 1964: Password: Reiher (Pastor) Director: Rudolf Jugert
- 1964: Commissioner Freytag ; Episode: A Black Teuton (Anatol Echbach) - Director: Michael Braun
- 1965: Weekend in Paradies - TV movie - director: Rolf von Sydow
- 1965: The Diplomat on Ice (Finger Boss) - TV movie - Director: Korbinian Köberle
- 1966: Standgericht (Zimmerle) - TV movie - Director: Rolf Busch
- 1967: Die Zimmerwirtin (The elderly detective) - TV film - Director: Ludwig Cremer
- 1967: Civil War in Russia - five-part television film - Director: Wolfgang Schleif
- 1967: Playing with Death (Charitschkin) - Director: Karl-Heinz Bieber
- 1967: Ransom for Mylady (In different batches) - TV movie - Director: Georg Wildhagen
- 1967: Country doctor Dr. Brock ; 2 episodes (Herr Dübbers) - Director: Ralph Lothar
- 1968: Risk for Santa Clauses (Mulka) - TV movie - Director: Thomas Fantl
Radio plays
- 1947: The devil trips Monsieur Darcy to Ernst Nebhut (Flamat, former wrestler) - directed by Paul Verhoeven
- 1948: Undine (Andreas) - Director: Helmut Brennicke
- 1948: We haven't learned anything (Hermes) - Director: Wilm ten Haaf
- 1948: The Song of Bernadette (Duran) - Director: Walter Ohm
- 1948: Prossy's Mam (Polly Bunker) - Director: Fritz Benscher
- 1949: The interrogation of Lukullus according to Bertolt Brecht - Director: Harald Braun
- 1949: Women lose their heads - Director: Fritz Benscher
- 1949: Stella, based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
- 1950: Nothing of importance (The Boss) - Author: Dietmar Schönherr - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
- 1950: The Christgeburtsspiel from Oberufer - Director: Peter Glas
- 1951: The sad story of an opportunity - Director: Fritz Benscher
- 1951: At the end of the street (policeman) - Director: Fritz Benscher
- 1951: Pit and Fonso; 1st episode: SOS girl robbery - author and director: Willy Purucker
- 1951: In the 25th hour - Director: Hanns Cremer
- 1951: The Blue Wilson - Director: Willy Purucker
- 1951: The big knife (director) - director: Gert Westphal
- 1951: Mr. Richter, this is my child! (Post) - Director: Heinz Schimmelpfennig
- 1951: The Walk through Purgatory (Reporter) - Director: Werner Hausmann
- 1951: The Bewitched Spitzweg - Director: Peter Glas
- 1952: The days are numbered (Greek) - Director: Gerd Beermann
- 1952: The Answer (Poldi) - Director: Christian Boehme
- 1952: On the Way to Paradise (Drago) - Director: Helmut Brennicke
- 1952: Sängerkrieg der Heidehasen (Wackelohr) - children's radio play - director: Hanns Cremer
- 1953: Celia and her adventures; 3rd episode: The story of the missing child star (Butch) - Director: Fritz Benscher
- 1953: The Scarlet Flower (Chauvelin) - Director: Kurt Meister
- 1953: The little man with the big bill (landlord) - author and director: Willy Purucker
- 1953: The sensational news (Gendarme) - author and director: Gustav Machatý
- 1954: Tim among the pirates - director: Hanns Cremer
- 1954: News from Schilda; Episode: Through thick and thin (Roland, police guard) - Director: Franz Zimmermann
- 1954: News from Schilda; Result: The trial of the donkey's shadow (anthrax, donkey driver and landlord) - Director: Raoul Wolfgang Schnell
- 1954: An angel comes to Babylon, according to Friedrich Dürrenmatt (Nimrid, ex-king of Babylon) - Director: Raoul Wolfgang Schnell
- 1955: The Fire Salamander (Paul Taylor) - Director: Fritz Benscher
- 1956: At Night in Manhattan (Jack) - Director: Fritz Benscher
- 1956: The Little Lord (Mr. Silas Hobbs) - Director: Otto Kurth
- 1956: A whale came swimming (Koinar) - Director: Wilhelm Semmelroth
- 1956: The portrait of old age (Third Jew) - Director: Otto Kurth
- 1956: Night Watch (Baruch) - Director: Otto Kurth
- 1956: The Gangsters of Valence (Perrier) - Director: Wilhelm Semmelroth
- 1957: Paul Temple and the Gilbert case (Inspector Kingston) - Directed by Eduard Hermann
- 1957: Live in Peace (Lawyer) - Director: Raoul Wolfgang Schnell
- 1957: The arithmetic task (chauffeur) - Director: Wilhelm Semmelroth
- 1957: Der Roßdieb zu Fünsing (Jockl Flapp) - Director: Otto Kurth
- 1957: Das Assentat (Aky) - Director: Ludwig Cremer
- 1957: A gondola in Paris (Lombard Poulain) - Director: Raoul Wolfgang Schnell
- 1957: Daphnis and Chloe (Pan) - Director: Wilhelm Semmelroth
- 1957: The Man from Thermopylae (Koryander) - Director: Wilhelm Semmelroth
- 1957: Not easy to be a fool (Doctor Stevens) - Director: Otto Kurth
- 1958: The Sniffing Commission (Farmer Müller) - Director: Otto Kurth
- 1958: Tom Sawyer's Adventure (Defender) - Director: Heinz Dieter Köhler
- 1959: Deliberately (Sam Eldridge) - Director: Alexander Pestel
- 1960: Dentist at the Crossroads (Captain Rowley) - Director: Oswald Döpke
- 1961: The zero hour was three fifteen (Mr. Stanford) - Director: Walter Netzsch
- 1961: Conversation in the afternoon (boss) - Director: Gustav Machaty
- 1961: The Big Catch (Davizes) - Director: Fritz Benscher
- 1962: A serious case (director Günther Berneck) - director: Walter Netzsch
- 1962: Inspector Hornleigh (2nd season); 2nd episode: 9:30 a.m. - Milestone 10 (Dr. Purves) - Director: Walter Netzsch
- 1963: Inspector Hornleigh (3rd season); 1st episode: The Señor from Norivia (Mr. Castro) - Director: Walter Netzsch
- 1963: Party worries (Herr Vogt) - Director: Sammy Drechsel
- 1963: For fools with good nerves - author and director: Walter Netzsch
- 1963: Allow me, my name is Cox - The Little Witch (taxi driver) - Director: Walter Netzsch
- 1964: Trouble with Pearls (Lou Ganbesi, bar owner) - Director: Ludwig Cremer
- 1964: Half-Half or The Little Green Circles (Director Schober) - Director: Walter Netzsch
- 1965: Allow me, my name is Cox; 6th episode: Wonder is the miller's pleasure - Director: Walter Netzsch
- 1965: Postraub (Watts) - Director: Walter Netzsch
- 1966: A well-dressed gentleman (Inspector Dwyer) - Director: Walter Netzsch
- 1966: Bells on New Years Eve (Harry Gotobed) - Director: Otto Kurth, with Marianne Mosa
- 1967: a case for Dr. Dahlberg - Director: Fritz Benscher
Web links
- Works by Werner Lieven in the catalog of the German National Library
- Werner Lieven in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Werner Lieven in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ↑ knerger.de: Werner Lieven's grave
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Lieven, Werner |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lieven, Werner Gottfried (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor, radio play and voice actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 15, 1909 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
DATE OF DEATH | March 7, 1968 |
Place of death | Munich |