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Wolfgang Petersen
Wolfgang Petersen’s screen credits include director work on Das Boot, director work on Troy, and director work on The Perfect Storm.
Born March 14, 1941† August 12, 2022 Emden, Germany5 movies on MoviHero
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About Wolfgang Petersen
Wolfgang Petersen was a German-born screenwriter, producer and film director who spent most of his career in the United States. In the 1960s he began working directing plays at the Ernst Deutsch Theater in Hamburg. After becoming interested in theater in Berlin and Hamburg, Petersen attended the Berlin Film and Television Academy (1966-70). His first productions were for German state television, and it was during his work on the popular crime series Crime Scene that he met actor Jürgen Prochnow, who would later appear in his iconic film Das Boot (1981). His other films include The NeverEnding Story (1984), cult film Enemy Mine (1985), Shattered (1991), In the Line of Fire (1993), Outbreak (1995), Air Force One (1997), The Perfect Storm (2000), Troy (2004), Poseidon (2006) and Four Against the Bank (2016), his latest film.
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- 2023U-96, The True Story of 'Das Boot'Self (archive footage)
- 2021Das Boot Revisited: An Underwater Success StorySelf - Das Boot Screenwriter and Director
- 2017Open Wounds – A Journey through German Genre FilmsActor
- 2016Four Against the BankDirector
- 2013Stardust Hollywood - Sternenstaub und GötterweltenSelf
- 2012Der BerndSelf
- 2011Wolfgang Petersen: Back to the BoatSelf
- 2005Gottschalk meets PetersenHimself
- 2003The AgencyProducer
- 2002Starbuck Holger MeinsSelf
- 1999Bicentennial ManProducer
- 1999InstinctProducer
- 1997Red CornerProducer
- 1996Hollywood, Germany - Die amerikanische HerausforderungSelf
- 1995OutbreakDirector · Producer
- 1993In the Line of FireDirector · Producer
- 1991ShatteredDirector · Producer · Writer
- 1985Enemy MineDirector
- 1984The NeverEnding StoryDirector · Writer · Man Who Drops Milk (uncredited)
- 1981Das Boot: Behind The ScenesSelf
- 1978Black and White Like Day and NightDirector
- 1977The ConsequenceDirector · Writer
- 1977PlanübungDirector · Writer
- 1976Four Against the BankDirector
- 1976Hans in LuckDirector
- 1974Pinned to the GroundDirector
- 1974One or the Other of UsDirector
- 1973Van der Valk and the RichDirector
- 1973SmogDirector
- 1972Anna and TotóDirector
- 1971I Will Kill You, WolfDirector · Writer
- 1969Ich NichtWriter · Director
- 1967The Cuckoo YearsDirector
- 1967The FoundlingDirector
- 1967Der Eine - der AndereDirector · Writer
- 1965Stadt auf StelzenDirector
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Jürgen Prochnow
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Allen Payne
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Andre Braugher
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