Oskar Werner

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AKA: Oskar Josef Bschliessmayer
Nationality: Austrian
Birthdate: 11/13/1922
Birthplace: Vienna, Austria
Death Date: 10/23/1984

biography

Member of Vienna's renowned Burgtheater who alternated between stage and screen work from the late 1940s. Werner scored leads in several European productions but, save for his poignant performance in "Decision Before Dawn" (1951), remained better known for his theater work; he was generally considered his country's greatest talent.

Fair-haired and slight, Werner re-emerged in the 1960s in a string of excellent film roles, including Jules in Francois Truffaut's classic "Jules and Jim" (1961), the world-weary counterspy in "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold" and the ship's physician in "Ship of Continued

Credits

The Student
2008
Montag
1966
Dr Schumann
1965
Jules
1962
Father Telemond
Stefan Zelter

milestones

Year
Milestone
 
Made film debut while still in high school
1940 
Joined Vienna's Burgtheater (date approximate)
1941 
Drafted by the German army but kicked out of officer's training school due to feigned incompetence
1948 
First featured film role in the Austrian-British co-production, "Angel With a Trumpet"
1951 
US film debut in "Decision Before Dawn"

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