Wolf Kahler

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Wolf Kahler
Born (1940-04-03) 3 April 1940 (age 83)
OccupationActor
Years active1975–present

Wolf Kahler (born 3 April 1940) is a German stage, film, television, and voice actor. [1] [2] [3]

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Since 1975, he has appeared in many English-language American and British television and film productions. [4] One of his early roles was that of Kaiser Wilhelm II in Michael York's adventure film The Riddle of the Sands . [5] One of his best-known roles was that of Hermann Dietrich in Raiders of the Lost Ark . [2]

Among the characters he has voiced in video games is Kaiser Vlad in Battalion Wars . [6] Kahler played the Prince of Tübingen in Stanley Kubrick's 1975 film, Barry Lyndon . [2] [7] In 2001, he played a Wehrmacht General in a television miniseries about World War II, Band of Brothers . [8] In the Clint Eastwood spy thriller Firefox (1982), Kahler played KGB chairman Yuri Andropov. In 2011 Kahler appeared as Dr. Hoffmanstahl in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows . [2] [9] In 2017, he played a German Commander in the Warner Bros./DCEU film Wonder Woman . [3]

Filmography

Film

Short films

Television

Video games

Thanks

Soundtrack

Radio

The Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican, a drama by Robin Glendinning, was first broadcast in 2006, on BBC Radio4. Kahler played Herbert Kappler, a Nazi war criminal, who is befriended in his cell by a Vatican priest; the story is based on the real-life adventures of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty. [11] [12]

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