John Wengraf

John Wengraf

Acting 1897-04-22 Vienna, Austria-Hungary, now Austria

Emigrating to England in 1933 as the Nazis began their rise to power, Wengraf appeared unbilled in a couple of films there, as well as in some of the first BBC live-television shows ever presented but his career began to languish. In late 1941, however, he had the good fortune of appearing on Broadway with Helen Hayes in "Candle in the Wind" and decided to stay. The following year he headed west and settled permanently in the Los Angeles area. A dark, cold-eyed, thin-lipped player with a precise, meticulous air about him, he found himself invariably playing the very characters he detested. Some of his more nefarious nasties surfaced in such films as the Humphrey Bogart classic Sahara (1943/I), as well as The Boy from Stalingrad (1943), U-Boat Prisoner (1944) and Till We Meet Again (1944). In postwar years, he was often spotted portraying ethnic professionals (scientists, doctors, professors, foreign royalty). Some of the more quality pictures he enhanced were Tomorrow Is Forever (1946); Count Von Papen in 5 Fingers (1952); and Ronchin in the Ethel Merman musical Call Me Madam (1953). Although Wengraf never made it to the very top of the Hollywood character ranks, he remained a throughly strong and reliable player. In the 1950s and 1960s he transferred his talents to TV, appearing on a number of dramatic showcases and on such popular programs as "The Untouchables" (1959), "Hawaiian Eye" (1959), "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." (1964) and "The Time Tunnel" (1966). His last few films included minor roles in the war-themed Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), Hitler (1962) and Ship of Fools (1965). He retired in 1966, and died in Santa Barbara, California, at age 77, on May 4, 1974.

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1966 Dr. Hans Kleinemann
1966
1965 Graf
1964 Drozhin
1963 Hans Eckhart
1962 Dr. Morell
1961 Karl Wieck
1960 Dr. Erich Heinrich
1960 Dr. Kessler
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1959 Ernest
1959 Felix Borgner
1958 John Merriman
1958 Colonel Anders Dorn
1958 Von Elm
1957 Sermaine
1957 Mr. Louis Horvat
1957 Dr. Krauss
1957 Dr. Carl Metz
1957
1956 Prof. Zimmelman
1955 Dr. Tabor
1955 Count Victor Turec
1954 Dr. Zeitman
1954 Commodore Renard
1954 Vidal
1954 Nicholas Cadiz
1954 Col. Schuman (uncredited)
1953 Lukats
1953 German Doctor (uncredited)
1952 Count Franz Von Papen
1952 German Colonel
1952 Von Schwarz
1952 Denoir
1950 Landau
1950 Max von Mayerling
1949 Pierquin
1948 Prosecuting Attorney
1948 Peter Goltzen
1948 German Doctor
1947 'Shiv' Triano
1946 Joseph - Gray & Isabel's Butler
1946 Dr. Ludwig
1945 Alex
1944 Gunther Rudehoff, Gestapo Agent
1944 Rudolph Kruger
1944 Overkamp
1944 Gestapo Chief
1943 German Major
1943 Maj. von Falken
1943 Polish Ambassador Grzybowski (uncredited)
1942 Herr Kesselman
1940 Commander Deutschland
1940 German Captain
1940 German Radio Operator
1940 German
1940 KL Physician (uncredited)
1935 Paul Rainer