Person · Director, actor and screenwriter · Active 1932–1966
Wolfgang Staudte
1906–1984, Saarbrücken
German director, actor and screenwriter, born in Saarbrücken. Won the German Film Award. Appeared in All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), The Blue Angel (1930) and Pezzo, capopezzo e capitano (1958).
His work in anti-Nazi films, such as The Murderers Are Among Us (1946), was also a personal working-through of his film career under the Nazis (he acted in the antisemitic film Jud Süß).
Wolfgang Staudte · authors · CC BY-SA 4.0
He is the great-uncle of the German-Iranian director and novelist Andy Siege.
Wolfgang Staudte · authors · CC BY-SA 4.0
Films in this guide
Best known
- All Quiet on the Western Front 1930actor
- The Blue Angel 1930actor
- A Tale of Five Cities 1951director
- The Threepenny Opera 1962director, screenwriter
- Pezzo, capopezzo e capitano 1958director, actor
- Crook's Honor 1966director
1930s
1950s
- A Tale of Five Cities (1951)director
- Rose Bernd (1957)director
- Pezzo, capopezzo e capitano (1958)director, actor
1960s
- The Threepenny Opera (1962)director, screenwriter
- Crook's Honor (1966)director