Wolfgang Büttner

Acting

Wolfgang Büttner

Born — Died

1912-06-01 — 1990-11-18

Place of birth

Rostock, Germany

Known for

Acting

Credits

86 titles

Wolfgang Büttner born 1st June 1912 was a German actor known for films such as The Longest Day (1962) and Secret of the Red Orchid (1962). Between 1950 and 1998, Wolfgang appeared in more than one hundred films. He was married to German actress Eleonore Noelle.

Known for

Scene of the Crime poster
6.2

Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

Scene of the Crime

1970

Derrick poster
6.0

Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings.

Derrick

1974

Der Fahnder poster
7.3

Der Fahnder is a German television krimi series which was aired between 1984 and 2005. In the Netherlands the series was broadcast by the VARA from 3 October 1985.

Der Fahnder

1984

The Commissioner poster
8.0

Der Kommissar is a German television series about a group of detectives of the Munich homicide squad. All 97 episodes, which were shot in black-and-white and first broadcast between 1969 and 1976, were written by Herbert Reinecker and starred Erik Ode as Kommissar Herbert Keller. Keller's assistants were Walter Grabert, Robert Heines, and Harry Klein who, in 1974, was replaced by his younger brother Erwin Klein.

The Commissioner

1969

Die Schwarzwaldklinik poster
6.6

The Black Forest Clinic is a German language medical drama television series that was produced by and filmed in West Germany. The series was produced between 1984 and 1988 with the original airing being from October 2, 1985 to March 25, 1989 on West Germany's ZDF television channel. The series' storyline follows the inner workings of a small fictional hospital in the Black Forest region of Germany as well as the lives of the Brinkmann family of doctors who work at the hospital. Shortly after broadcasting had begun in 1985, The Black Forest Clinic became a highly popular television event, reaching audiences of over 20 million viewers. 25 years since its debut, it is still highly regarded in Germany. The series had been re-broadcast several times since 1985 and has spawned two television films released 20 years after its initial airing.

Die Schwarzwaldklinik

1985

Das Kriminalmuseum poster
8.0

Das Kriminalmuseum was a German television series. It ran from 1963 to 1970 on ZDF and was one of its first programs. Each episode began with a tracking shot through an unspecified crime museum, stopping at one of the displays, whose story was then told. Each episode was between 60 and 75 minutes long and featured different actors as the criminal commissioner. The best known was Erik Ode, who in 1969 moved to Der Kommissar, appearing in 97 episodes. The theme music of the series was written by German composer Martin Böttcher, who also composed the complete scores for five episodes.

Das Kriminalmuseum

1963

Film credits

1970s · 15 titles

1960s · 32 titles

The Longest Day poster
7.6

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"

The Longest Day

1962

The Secret of the Red Orchid poster
5.8

Rival gangsters from Chicago move to London and attempt to extort money from rich Britons.

The Secret of the Red Orchid

1962

Black Gravel poster
7.1

Tensions rise when a U.S. military base is built in a small village in post-war Germany.

Black Gravel

1961

The Mystery of Piskov poster
4.7

Piskov, any idyllic small town in 1969. One day there is an incident that causes a sensation in press, radio and television, but leaves the citizens of Piskov completely cold. All clocks stop and time stops! A being from the future, more precisely from the year 523 to Gagarin, lands in the small town! The skeptical inhabitants ignore the incident completly. Two journalists (Hellmut Lange and Hannelore Elsner) try to get to the bottom of things and ask various witnesses about the mysterious events...

The Mystery of Piskov

1969

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ein Volksfeind

1965

The Soft Course poster
6.3

Bernhard works as a warehouse clerk in Munich. After being sentenced to probation for a physical altercation with a right-wing extremist, he could no longer continue his engineering studies. Bernhard meets Johanna. She comes from a well-to-do family; her father is a real-estate developer and her brother is in the diplomatic service. Bernhard wants to share his roots with her, so the two go to Prague, where he lived until the end of the war. But her father disapproves of the trip to the Eastern bloc. When Bernhard finds out that he owes his chance to develop new technology, which led to his career advancement, to his girlfriend’s father, he is upset …

The Soft Course

1967

Notes from Altmühltal poster
6.0

Notizen aus dem Altmühltal shows the West German south as mezzogiorno of the Wirtschaftswunder republic: the simple folk, as they say, vegetate a bit dully through their days; meanwhile, the authorities do nothing to promote the economic, and hence social, development of the region, while the local honoraries look back on better times.

Notes from Altmühltal

1961

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10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Liebe für Liebe

1967

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9.0

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Und nicht mehr Jessica

1965

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8.0

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Der Schlagbaum

1960

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NR

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Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray

1961

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NR

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Die volle Wahrheit

1963

No artwork available
9.0

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Die Abrechnung

1963

Dantons Tod poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Dantons Tod

1963

Stalingrad poster
8.0

The story of the Battle of Stalingrad from the perspective of a Panzer commander and an officer in a penal battalion.

Stalingrad

1963

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Fall Jeanne d'Arc

1966

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NR

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Gericht über Las Casas

1960

No artwork available
NR

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Sir Basil Zaharoff - Makler des Todes

1969

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10.0

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Der Prozeß Carl von O.

1964

No artwork available
NR

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Aktion T 4

1964

No artwork available
10.0

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Philadelphia, ich bin da!

1967

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Elektra

1966

No artwork available
NR

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Flucht über die Ostsee

1967

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Der Richter von Zalamea

1968

The Foggy Night Murderer poster
7.0

A killer terrorizes the small German town of Hainsburg. The police moves in to investigate the crimes and finds a suspect among a small group of teenagers.

The Foggy Night Murderer

1964

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Die erste Legion

1964

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Das Bild des Menschen. Gespräche einer letzten Nacht

1964

Endstation Rote Laterne poster
9.0

Unscrupulous girl traders transport unsuspecting blonde girls from a nightclub in Amsterdam to a brothel in Havana. The young journalist Verena Linkmann wants to expose the slave trade, disguises herself as an available dancer.

Endstation Rote Laterne

1960

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Judith

1965

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Gottes zweite Garnitur

1967

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die Sache mit dem Ring

1961

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Der Tod im Apfelbaum

1960

1950s · 8 titles

Series credits

Scene of the Crime poster
6.2

Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

Scene of the Crime

1970

Derrick poster
6.0

Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings.

Derrick

1974

Derrick poster
6.0

Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings.

Derrick

1974

Der Fahnder poster
7.3

Der Fahnder is a German television krimi series which was aired between 1984 and 2005. In the Netherlands the series was broadcast by the VARA from 3 October 1985.

Der Fahnder

1984

The Commissioner poster
8.0

Der Kommissar is a German television series about a group of detectives of the Munich homicide squad. All 97 episodes, which were shot in black-and-white and first broadcast between 1969 and 1976, were written by Herbert Reinecker and starred Erik Ode as Kommissar Herbert Keller. Keller's assistants were Walter Grabert, Robert Heines, and Harry Klein who, in 1974, was replaced by his younger brother Erwin Klein.

The Commissioner

1969

Die Schwarzwaldklinik poster
6.6

The Black Forest Clinic is a German language medical drama television series that was produced by and filmed in West Germany. The series was produced between 1984 and 1988 with the original airing being from October 2, 1985 to March 25, 1989 on West Germany's ZDF television channel. The series' storyline follows the inner workings of a small fictional hospital in the Black Forest region of Germany as well as the lives of the Brinkmann family of doctors who work at the hospital. Shortly after broadcasting had begun in 1985, The Black Forest Clinic became a highly popular television event, reaching audiences of over 20 million viewers. 25 years since its debut, it is still highly regarded in Germany. The series had been re-broadcast several times since 1985 and has spawned two television films released 20 years after its initial airing.

Die Schwarzwaldklinik

1985

Das Kriminalmuseum poster
8.0

Das Kriminalmuseum was a German television series. It ran from 1963 to 1970 on ZDF and was one of its first programs. Each episode began with a tracking shot through an unspecified crime museum, stopping at one of the displays, whose story was then told. Each episode was between 60 and 75 minutes long and featured different actors as the criminal commissioner. The best known was Erik Ode, who in 1969 moved to Der Kommissar, appearing in 97 episodes. The theme music of the series was written by German composer Martin Böttcher, who also composed the complete scores for five episodes.

Das Kriminalmuseum

1963

Space Patrol poster
8.0

Raumpatrouille – Die phantastischen Abenteuer des Raumschiffes Orion, also known as Raumpatrouille Orion, and Space Patrol Orion in English, was the first German science fiction television series. Its seven episodes were broadcast by ARD beginning September 17, 1966 six years before Star Trek first aired in West Germany. Being a huge success with several reruns audience ratings went up to 56%. Over the years, the series acquired a distinct cult status in Germany.

Space Patrol

1966

Die fünfte Kolonne poster
8.0

Die fünfte Kolonne is a German television series.

Die fünfte Kolonne

1963

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Gestern gelesen

1969

Gewagtes Spiel poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Gewagtes Spiel

1964

No artwork available
10.0

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Der Anwalt

1976

The Century of Surgeons poster
10.0

A special insight into medicine presented on film: sterile operations, hospitals used to be built by the wind, anaesthesia, surgical gloves, similar to the films Sauerbruch or Kneip.

The Century of Surgeons

1972

No artwork available
NR

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...18 - 20 nur nicht passen

1965

The German Lesson poster
NR

Siggi Jepsen, an inmate at the juvenile detention center, is assigned to write an essay in the 1950s. Topic: the joys of duty. He immediately thinks of his own father. As a police sergeant, his father took his official duties more than seriously during the Nazi regime. Siggi becomes increasingly pensive. He writes about his father, who even sacrifices his friendship with an old friend for the sake of his sense of duty. Siggi had protected this friend as a child, and now has to serve time for it…

The German Lesson

1971

Butler Parker poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Butler Parker

1972

Am grünen Strand der Spree poster
10.0

Am grünen Strand der Spree was a five-part German television movie which first aired in 1960. It was based on a novel by Hans Scholz and has been called a Straßenfeger in German, a television program that was watched by so many, the streets were empty. It was produced by German broadcaster Nord- und Westdeutscher Rundfunkverband in Cologne, Germany.

Am grünen Strand der Spree

1960

Karl May poster
NR

The last ten years in Karl May’s life. A man fighting for his work, which lets him become an iconic figure of his time.

Karl May

1974

As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me poster
7.0

A prisoner of war is sentenced to 25 years in the Soviet Union. His escape from the Soviet gulag takes him through the intense and hopeless terrain of Siberia.

As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me

1959

Der rote Schal poster
7.0

The story is set in Victorian England and revolves around two young men, Allan Armadale and Ozias Midwinter, who are connected by their fathers' dark past. Both fall in love with Lydia Gwilt, the mysterious woman with the red scarf, who has her own sinister plans.

Der rote Schal

1973

No artwork available
10.0

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Die Hupe - Eine Schülerzeitung

1969

Der Strick um den Hals poster
NR

The country estate of Count Claudieuse is located near Paris. One night in 1871, it goes up in flames. Two shots are fired, the count is critically injured, and the countess and her children escape the flames with the help of the feeble-minded Cocoleu. Cocoleu accuses Jacques von Beaucoran from the neighboring estate of being the perpetrator. Jacques protests his innocence.

Der Strick um den Hals

1975

Affäre Dreyfuss poster
9.0

The disaster began in the late summer of 1894, when a French staff officer appeared at the military attaché of the German embassy in Paris. He offers important military information at very high prices. A cover letter for this case ends up in the attaché's wastepaper basket. It is stolen. Investigations by the French Ministry of War incriminate Captain Dreyfus.

Affäre Dreyfuss

1968

Im Busch von Mexiko poster
NR

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Im Busch von Mexiko

1967

No artwork available
NR

With the defeat of the revolution of 1848, the attempt to unite the German states had also failed. An agreement in the spirit of a Greater Germany, as demanded by Emperor Franz Joseph, was out of the question for Bismarck, who had been Prussian Prime Minister since 1862. For him, unity was only conceivable under Prussian leadership and without Austria. The two great powers still fought together in the war against Denmark (1864). Two years later, the separation from Austria was completed in the German War.

Preußen über alles

1971

No artwork available
NR

Die Knapp-Familie is a German television series.

Die Knapp-Familie

1981