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Oskar Werner is a Actor Autrichien born on 13 november 1922 at Vienna (Austria)

Oskar Werner

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Birth name Oskar Josef Bschliessmayer
Nationality Austria
Birth 13 november 1922 at Vienna (Austria)
Death 23 october 1984 (at 61 years) at Marburg (German)

Oskar Werner (13 November 1922 – 23 October 1984) was an Austrian actor.

He is known for his film performances in Jules and Jim (1962), Ship of Fools (1965), The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965), Fahrenheit 451 (1966) and The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968). Werner received an Academy Award nomination in 1966, two BAFTA award nominations in 1966 and 1967, and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture in 1966.

Biography

Issu d'une famille modeste, Oskar Werner est né à Vienne, dans le quartier de Gumpendorf (une partie du 6e arrondissement de la ville), non loin de l'endroit où Johann Strauss est né, dans la Marchettigasse 1A. Dès l'âge de quinze ans, il fait de la figuration au cinéma pour payer ses cours d'art dramatique. Son oncle lui obtient quelques petits rôles dans des films, notamment Geld faellt von Himmel, Hotel Sacher (dans lequel il interprète le rôle d'un chasseur) et Leinen aus Irlande. Il se produit au cabaret Der Beisskorb et au théâtre Die Komoedie. En 1940, à 18 ans, il entre au Burgtheater de Vienne, accepté par Lothar Müthel . Il est alors le plus jeune acteur à avoir reçu cet honneur. Il fait ses débuts, sous le nom de scène « Oskar Werner », le 11 octobre 1941.

Le 3 décembre 1941, après son dix-neuvième anniversaire, il est enrôlé dans la Wehrmacht. Pacifiste et anti-nazi, il déteste son uniforme. Il montre à ses supérieurs qu'il n'a pas la capacité de devenir un soldat en tombant de cheval et commet des erreurs délibérées pour montrer qu'il ne sait pas se servir d’une arme à feu. Il n'est donc pas envoyé sur le front russe pour combattre, mais employé aux corvées de patates et au nettoyage des latrines. Il épouse l'actrice Elizabeth Kallina ; leur mariage est tenu secret parce qu'elle est demi-juive. La Gestapo les surveille de près. En 1944 naît leur fille, Éléonore.

Au cours des bombardements alliés sur Vienne, Oskar Werner voit de nombreuses personnes mourir, parmi lesquelles des amis. Il ne l'oubliera jamais. Il dira ensuite qu'il savait le nombre exact de bombes larguées sur sa ville natale. Il a lui-même été enseveli pendant trois jours sous les décombres. Le 8 décembre 1944, il déserte la Wehrmacht et emmène sa femme et leur bébé. Ils se cachent dans une cabane dans les bois aux alentours de Vienne, comme il l'a toujours dit ensuite, « sans Johann Strauss », et survivent dans des conditions très difficiles jusqu'à la fin de la guerre.

Best films

Ship of Fools (1965)
(Actor)
Jules and Jim (1962)
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Filmography of Oskar Werner (20 films)

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Two in the Wave, 1h31
Directed by Emmanuel Laurent
Origin France
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Anna Karina, Antoine de Baecque, Isild Le Besco, Anouk Aimée
Rating67% 3.389883.389883.389883.389883.38988
The film depicts the friendship between French directors François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, the two shining figures of the French New Wave movement in the late '50s and early '60s.
François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits, 1h28
Directed by Serge Toubiana, Michel Pascal
Origin France
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors Fanny Ardant, Olivier Assayas, Alexandre Astruc, Jean Aurel, Nathalie Baye, Claude Chabrol
Roles (archive footage)
Rating73% 3.698783.698783.698783.698783.69878
Ce film inaugure un genre cinématographique : celui de l'essai sur un auteur. L'ambition est de raconter la vie et l'oeuvre de François Truffaut, cinéaste célèbre mais personnage méconnu. Le récit est celui de l'enquête : d'où les nombreux témoignages d'amis ou collaborateurs, membres de la famille du cinéaste, mais également acteurs et actrices, ou ceux d'autres cinéastes se sentant proches de lui. Le montage entrelace les différents points de vue aux extraits de films, documents d'archives et photos inédites, autorisant une certaine forme de récit où la parole des uns répond à celle des autres, soit pour contredire ou nuancer tel propos, soit pour rebondir et enrichir un point de vue.
Voyage of the Damned, 2h35
Directed by Stuart Rosenberg
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War
Themes Seafaring films, Films about religion, Transport films, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Faye Dunaway, Oskar Werner, Lee Grant, Max von Sydow, James Mason, Malcolm McDowell
Roles Professor Egon Kreisler
Rating63% 3.1957953.1957953.1957953.1957953.195795
Based on actual events, this film tells the story of the 1939 voyage of the MS St. Louis, which departed from Hamburg carrying 937 Jews from Germany, ostensibly to Havana, Cuba. The passengers, having seen and suffered rising anti-Semitism in Germany, realised this might be their only chance to escape. The film details the emotional journey of the passengers who gradually become aware that their passage was planned as an exercise in propaganda, and that it had never been intended that they disembark in Cuba. Rather, they were to be set up as Pariahs, to set an example before the world. As a Nazi official states in the film, when the whole world has refused to accept them as refugees, no country can blame Germany for the fate of the Jews.
The Odessa File, 2h3
Directed by Ronald Neame
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Spy
Themes Films about writers, Spy films, Films about journalists, Political films
Actors Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell, Derek Jacobi, Peter Jeffrey, Mary Tamm
Roles Wehrmacht Officer (uncredited)
Rating69% 3.496553.496553.496553.496553.49655
On 22 November 1963, the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Peter Miller, a young freelance reporter, pulls over to the curb to listen to a radio report of the event in a district in Hamburg, West Germany. As a result he happens to be stopped at a traffic signal as an ambulance passes by on a highway. He chases the ambulance and discovers it is en route to pick up the body of an elderly Jewish Holocaust survivor who had committed suicide, leaving behind no family. The reporter obtains the diary of the man, which contains information on his life in the Second World War Riga Ghetto, and the name of the SS officer who ran the camp, Eduard Roschmann.
Interlude
Interlude (1968)
, 1h30
Directed by Douglas Sirk
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Oskar Werner, June Allyson, Barbara Ferris, Rossano Brazzi, Virginia Maskell, Donald Sutherland
Roles Stefan Zelter
Rating61% 3.096583.096583.096583.096583.09658
A famous conductor gives an interview to a pretty young reporter. He speaks a bit too frankly and finds he's given himself an unwanted sabbatical from conducting. He begins an affair with the young reporter during his interlude and the accumulation of differences in their ages and background begins to mount up.
The Shoes of the Fisherman, 2h42
Directed by Michael Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Politique, Films about religion, Political films
Actors Laurence Olivier, Anthony Quinn, John Gielgud, Oskar Werner, David Janssen, Vittorio De Sica
Roles Fr. David Telemond
Rating69% 3.4959253.4959253.4959253.4959253.495925
Set during the height of the Cold War, The Shoes of the Fisherman opens as protagonist Kiril Pavlovich Lakota (Anthony Quinn), the Metropolitan Archbishop of Lviv (or Lvov as it is spelled in the movie adaptation), is unexpectedly set free after twenty years in a Siberian labour camp by his former jailer, Piotr Ilyich Kamenev (Laurence Olivier), now the premier of the Soviet Union.
Fahrenheit 451, 1h52
Directed by François Truffaut
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction
Themes Films based on science fiction novels, Political films, Dystopian films
Actors Oskar Werner, Julie Christie, Cyril Cusack, Mark Lester, Jeremy Spenser, Michael Balfour
Roles Guy Montag
Rating71% 3.5987653.5987653.5987653.5987653.598765
In the future, a totalitarian government employs a force known as Firemen to seek out and destroy all literature, permitting them to search anyone, anywhere, at any time. One of the Firemen, Guy Montag (Oskar Werner), meets one of his neighbors, Clarisse (Julie Christie), a 20-year-old schoolteacher whose job is hanging by a thread due to her unorthodox views. The two have a discussion about his job, where she asks if he ever reads the books he burns. Curious, he begins to hide books in his house and read them, starting with Charles Dickens' David Copperfield. This leads to conflict with his wife, Linda (also played by Julie Christie), who is more concerned with being popular enough to be a member of The Family, an interactive television program that refers to its viewers as cousins.
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, 1h47
Directed by Martin Ritt, Paul Dehn, Guy Trosper
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Spy
Themes Spy films, Politique, Political films
Actors Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Oskar Werner, Peter van Eyck, Sam Wanamaker, Robert Hardy
Roles Fiedler
Rating74% 3.7461353.7461353.7461353.7461353.746135
The West Berlin office of the Circus, under administrator Alec Leamas (Richard Burton), has not been doing well. He is recalled to London shortly after the death of one of his operatives. Leamas is seemingly demoted to the banking section of the agency. In reality, a carefully staged transformation of Leamas has been arranged by Control (Cyril Cusack), the agency's chief. Now depressed and disgruntled, alcoholic and low on funds, he is quickly spotted by the East German Intelligence Service as a potential defector.
Ship of Fools, 2h29
Directed by Stanley Kramer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret, Oskar Werner, José Ferrer, Lee Marvin, Michael Dunn
Roles Dr. Schumann
Rating70% 3.545273.545273.545273.545273.54527
The characters board a German ocean liner in Veracruz, Mexico, for a voyage to Bremerhaven, Germany, along with 600 displaced workers in steerage, being deported from Cuba back to Spain, and a not-so-exotic band of entertainers, for whom the voyage is just a job. Some are happy to be bound for a rising Nazi Germany, some are apprehensive, while others appear oblivious to its potential dangers.
Venusberg
Venusberg (1963)
, 1h28
Directed by Rolf Thiele
Genres Drama
Actors Marisa Mell, Oskar Werner
Roles Der Mann (Stimme)
Rating81% 4.0690154.0690154.0690154.0690154.069015
Jules and Jim, 1h42
Directed by François Truffaut, Robert Bober
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about suicide, Buddy films
Actors Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre, Marie Dubois, Sabine Haudepin, Jean-Louis Richard
Roles Jules
Rating76% 3.8484753.8484753.8484753.8484753.848475
The film is set before, during and after the Great War in several different parts of France, Austria, and Germany. Jules (Oskar Werner) is a shy writer from Austria who forges a friendship with the more extroverted Frenchman Jim (Henri Serre). They share an interest in the world of the arts and the Bohemian lifestyle. At a slide show, they become entranced with a bust of a goddess and her serene smile, and travel to see the ancient statue on an island in the Adriatic Sea.
Interlude
Interlude (1957)
, 1h30
Directed by Douglas Sirk
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors June Allyson, Oskar Werner, Rossano Brazzi, Marianne Koch, Barbara Ferris, Françoise Rosay
Rating61% 3.0978153.0978153.0978153.0978153.097815
Une jeune et belle Américaine, en voyage en Europe, tombe amoureuse d'un chef d'orchestre, Tonio Fischer, parfaitement névrosé
The Last Act, 1h53
Directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Origin German
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Historical
Themes Hitler, Political films
Actors Oskar Werner, Eduard Köck, Leopold Hainisch, Otto Schmöle, Erik Frey, John van Dreelen
Roles Hauptmann Wüst
Rating70% 3.5356353.5356353.5356353.5356353.535635
Le capitaine Richard Wüst, qui reçut la croix de chevalier mais critiqua le régime nazi, fut envoyé au bunker du Fiihrer par son général en avril 1945 pour informer directement Adolf Hitler de la situation sur le front et demander des renforts, mais échoua plusieurs fois. pouvoir auditionner chez le guide. Tout comme Hitler ordonne de faire sauter les tunnels du S-Bahn afin d'arrêter l'armée rouge (l'Union soviétique) dans sa marche (en sacrifiant la vie de milliers de Berlinois réfugiés dans les tunnels), Wüst est admis en tant que dirigeant
Lola Montès, 1h56
Directed by Marcel Ophuls, Max Ophüls, Claude Pinoteau, Alain Jessua
Origin France
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical, Romance
Themes Circus films
Actors Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov, Anton Walbrook, Oskar Werner, Lise Delamare, Paulette Dubost
Roles Student
Rating71% 3.5945853.5945853.5945853.5945853.594585
In the mid-19th-century, Lola Montès (Martine Carol) is a famous, past-her-prime dancer and courtesan who has led an eventful and highly scandalous life. (She supposedly holds a world record for number of lovers.) She is now reduced to performing in a New Orleans circus, where an impresario/ringmaster (Peter Ustinov) has both befriended and exploited her by making her the central attraction. In the course of a single circus performance — which dramatically reenacts Lola's life and career — flashbacks reveal, first, her affair with composer Franz Liszt (Will Quadflieg); second, her unhappy youth and marriage to her own mother's boyfriend, Lt. Thomas James (Ivan Desny); and then her scandalous public breakup with conductor Claudio Pirotto (Claude Pinoteau). Along the way, her career as a dancer and "actress" has its ups and downs and she initially rejects the career advances of a younger version of Ustinov's impresario. In a longer flashback, constituting most of the second half of the film, her career as courtesan reaches a peak: her affair with the Bavarian King Ludwig I (Anton Walbrook), which incenses his subjects and leads to his eventual downfall in the March Revolution of 1848. In a final circus sequence, Lola — a "fallen woman" — ascends to the apex of the big top tent for a symbolic, death-defying plunge. She is last seen allowing herself to be touched, or kissed, by a very long queue of male, fee-paying circus patrons.