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Dieter Laser is a Actor Allemand born on 17 february 1942 at Kiel (German)
Dieter Laser (born 17 February 1942) is a German actor.
Laser was born in Kiel, Germany. He is known to English speaking audiences for his roles as Mantrid in Lexx, Prof. Otto Blaettchen in The Ogre, Dr. Joseph Heiter in The Human Centipede (First Sequence) and Bill Boss in The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence).
In 1975, he was awarded the German Film Award in Gold in the category of Best Actor for his title role in John Glückstadt.
During the filming of The Human Centipede, many crew members and leading actors described Laser as being a "Method Actor". On the days of filming he did not speak to the cast very often and would stay in character as much as he possibly could. Dieter Laser was among some of director Tom Six's preferences to play Dr Heiter, and Six was impressed with Laser's work after seeing him in some of his earlier films. For his performance, Laser won Best Actor at the Austin Fantastic Fest and was nominated for the LA Scream Awards for Best Villain in 2010. He returned for the final installment of the franchise after refusing to play the part at first.
Laser will star in the Estonian fantasy film Jesus' Blood and Red Currants (shooting November 2015) and in the German Nazisploitation comedy Sky Sharks.
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Birth name Arnold Gunther
Nationality German
Birth 17 february 1942 at Kiel (German)
Death 29 february 2020 (at 78 years)
Nationality German
Birth 17 february 1942 at Kiel (German)
Death 29 february 2020 (at 78 years)
Laser was born in Kiel, Germany. He is known to English speaking audiences for his roles as Mantrid in Lexx, Prof. Otto Blaettchen in The Ogre, Dr. Joseph Heiter in The Human Centipede (First Sequence) and Bill Boss in The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence).
In 1975, he was awarded the German Film Award in Gold in the category of Best Actor for his title role in John Glückstadt.
During the filming of The Human Centipede, many crew members and leading actors described Laser as being a "Method Actor". On the days of filming he did not speak to the cast very often and would stay in character as much as he possibly could. Dieter Laser was among some of director Tom Six's preferences to play Dr Heiter, and Six was impressed with Laser's work after seeing him in some of his earlier films. For his performance, Laser won Best Actor at the Austin Fantastic Fest and was nominated for the LA Scream Awards for Best Villain in 2010. He returned for the final installment of the franchise after refusing to play the part at first.
Laser will star in the Estonian fantasy film Jesus' Blood and Red Currants (shooting November 2015) and in the German Nazisploitation comedy Sky Sharks.
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, 1h42Directed by Tom Six
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Horror
Themes Prison films
Actors Dieter Laser, Tom Six, Laurence R. Harvey, Eric Roberts, Bree Olson, Robert LaSardo
Roles William "Bill" Boss
Rating27%
Bill Boss (Dieter Laser), a psychotic prison warden, watches the end of The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) with his accountant Dwight Butler (Laurence R. Harvey). Bill says that he hates the films as his feet are massaged by his assistant, Daisy (Bree Olson), who says she quite enjoyed them. Bill sexually assaults Daisy, by sucking his fingers, and then inserting them into her vagina, and claims that women should not be allowed an opinion, much to the dismay of Dwight, who tries to pitch a 'brilliant idea', but is interrupted by a phone call.
, 1h24Directed by Tom Six
Origin Pays-bas
Genres Drama, Horror, Crime
Actors Ashlynn Yennie, Laurence R. Harvey, Dieter Laser
Rating38%
In the tollbooth of a multistory carpark, Martin Lomax (Laurence R. Harvey) is watching The Human Centipede (First Sequence) on his laptop, a film he is obsessed with. Overweight, asthmatic, and mentally challenged, Martin lives with his overbearing mother (Vivien Bridson), who blames him for having his father put in prison for physically and sexually abusing Martin when he was a boy. Dr. Sebring (Bill Hutchens), Martin's psychiatrist, also touches him inappropriately and prescribes him heavy medication. Martin keeps a pet centipede, which he gleefully feeds insects to.
, 1h32Directed by Tom Six
Origin Pays-bas
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Actors Dieter Laser, Ashley C. Williams, Ashlynn Yennie, Akihiro Kitamura
Roles Dr. Heiter
Rating44%
Lindsay (Ashley C. Williams) and Jenny (Ashlynn Yennie), two American tourists in Germany, are drugged and involuntarily detained by crazed surgeon Dr Josef Heiter (Dieter Laser) when they seek help at his house after they get a flat tire. The women awake in a makeshift medical ward. They witness Heiter kill a kidnapped truck driver after Heiter informs him he is "not a match". Heiter secures a new male captive, Japanese tourist Katsuro (Akihiro Kitamura). The doctor explains that he is a world-renowned expert at separating Siamese twins, but dreams of making new creatures by sewing people together. He describes in detail how he will surgically connect his three victims mouth-to-anus, so that they share a single digestive system.
Baltic Storm (2003)
, 1h50Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Disaster films, Films about seafaring accidents or incidents
Actors Greta Scacchi, Jürgen Prochnow, Donald Sutherland, Dieter Laser, Thure Riefenstein, Barbara Schöne
Roles Gehrig
Rating40%
The plot portrays the Swedish government as being responsible for using the ship to covertly transport Russian high-tech components to the United States. The story is uncovered by a young female journalist, not unlike Rabe herself. According to Rabe, divers hired by the Swedish government (signing contracts swearing lifetime secrecy) spent hours breaking into cabins frantically searching for a black attaché case carried by a Russian space technology dealer, Aleksandr Voronin (who died 2002). She highlighted US interest in various Soviet technology, including nuclear-powered satellites. She also suggested that panic about the stability of some form of nuclear device is the most likely reason behind the initial Swedish government suggestion of burying the wreck in concrete, a highly unusual proposal for a wreck, reminiscent of Chernobyl's sarcophagus.
Big Girls Don't Cry (2002)
, 1h27Origin German
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Anna Maria Mühe, Karoline Herfurth, Dieter Laser, Jennifer Ulrich, Josefine Domes, Nina Petri
Roles Herr Winter
Rating67%
The movie is about two best friends, Kati and Steffi, who discover that Steffi's father is having an affair and Steffi's planning revenge on his lover. An important subplot follows an abused girl named Yvonne (Jennifer Ulrich) and a deranged pornographer calling himself "Mr. Winter" (Dieter Laser).
Shanghai 1937 (1997)
, 3hDirected by Peter Patzak
Genres Drama
Actors Agnieszka Wagner, Nicholas Clay, James McCaffrey, Nigel Davenport, Elliott Gould, Dieter Laser
Rating58%
Conversation with the Beast (1997)
Directed by Armin Mueller-Stahl
Genres Comedy
Themes Political films
Actors Armin Mueller-Stahl, Bob Balaban, Hark Bohm, Katharina Böhm, Dieter Laser, Otto Sander
Roles Peter Hollstein
Rating64%
The Ogre (1996)
, 1h58Directed by Volker Schlöndorff
Origin German
Genres Drama, War
Themes Films about children, Films about sexuality, Films about pedophilia, Political films
Actors John Malkovich, Agnès Soral, Volker Spengler, Marianne Sägebrecht, Gottfried John, Heino Ferch
Roles Professor Blättchen
Rating67%
Abel Tiffauges (Malkovich) is a simple Frenchman at the start of World War II, who loves animals and children. The first part of the film recalls his childhood at a Catholic school for boys, in where he wishes to Saint Christopher that the school, which he sees as a prison, is burned down. By irony of fate, while Abel is being disciplined for spilling lamp oil on the chapel floor, his friend Nestor accidentally sets fire to the building, burning it down as he wished. From that day on, Abel is convinced that fate is on his side, and that it will protect him from anything.
Meeting Venus (1991)
, 1h59Directed by István Szabó
Origin Hongrie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Glenn Close, Niels Arestrup, Erland Josephson, Macha Méril, Jay O. Sanders, Marián Labuda
Rating65%
Un chef d'orchestre hongrois est appelé à l'Opéra de Paris pour diriger Tannhäuser de Richard Wagner, et rencontre de nombreuses difficultés.
The Man Inside (1990)
, 1h33Directed by Bobby Roth
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Jürgen Prochnow, Peter Coyote, Nathalie Baye, Dieter Laser, Monique van de Ven, Philip Anglim
Roles Leonard Schröter
Rating53%
Un journaliste allemand, Günter Wallraff, est victime d'une machination.
Fathers and Sons (1986)
, 8hDirected by Bernhard Sinkel
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films about families, Political films
Actors Burt Lancaster, Julie Christie, Bruno Ganz, Rüdiger Vogler, Tina Engel, Dieter Laser
Roles Friedrich Deutz
Rating74%
Two German industrial dynasties, one of Jewish bankers and a founder of a chemical empire. For three generations, their plots and plans, loves and betrayals help the rise of Germany and then to total destruction. The Deutz end up in the dock, on trial for war crimes at Nuremberg, while his trusted friends, the Bemheim, with one exception, have been killed
Germany in Autumn (1978)
, 1h59Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Volker Schlöndorff, Alexander Kluge, Alf Brustellin, Edgar Reitz, Bernhard Sinkel, Katja Rupé
Origin German
Genres Drama, Documentary
Themes Films about terrorism, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Autobiographical documentary films
Actors Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Heinz Bennent, Lilo Pempeit, Katja Rupé, Helmut Griem, Angela Winkler
Roles Abgeordneter (TV Aufsichtsgremium)
Rating68%
Automne allemand 1977, la Fraction armée rouge (RAF) terrorise la République fédérale d’Allemagne pour libérer ses figures historiques. Deux célébrations de funérailles à deux jours d'intervalle à Stuttgart ponctuent le récit. La première est l'enterrement du patron des patrons, exécuté par les terroristes de la RAF après la nuit de la mort de leurs leaders retrouvés suicidés dans leurs cellules de Stammheim quelques heures après l'annonce de la libération des otages du détournement du Landshut. La seconde est l'enterrement des suicidés de Stammheim sous haute surveillance policière. Dix réalisateurs du nouveau cinéma allemand témoignent de cette accélération des événements en mettant en scène des fictions et courts documentaires historiques pour restituer le climat de terreur quotidienne inspirée par la RAF tout en s'interrogeant sur la pression étatique nécessaire à la traque de terroristes dans un pays démocratique.
The Glass Cell (1978)
, 1h33Directed by Hans W. Geißendörfer
Origin German
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Brigitte Fossey, Helmut Griem, Dieter Laser, Walter Kohut, Bernhard Wicki
Roles David Reinalt
Rating66%
, 1h46Directed by Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlöndorff
Origin German
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime
Themes Films about journalists, Political films
Actors Angela Winkler, Mario Adorf, Dieter Laser, Jürgen Prochnow, Heinz Bennent, Hannelore Hoger
Roles Werner Tötges
Rating72%
The title character is an innocent housekeeper whose life is ruined by an invasive tabloid reporter and a police investigation when the man with whom she has just fallen in love turns out to be a radical bank robber. The film, unlike the novel, ends with a scene at Tötges' funeral, with his publisher delivering a hypocritical condemnation of the murder as an infringement on the freedom of the press.
John Glückstadt (1975)
, 1h34Directed by Ulf Miehe
Genres Drama
Actors Dieter Laser, Marie-Christine Barrault, Johannes Schaaf, Dan van Husen, Tilo Prückner
Roles John Hansen, genannt 'John Glückstadt'
Rating60%