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Filmmaker · Germany

Wolfgang Staudte

Died in 1984

Wolfgang Staudte was born in 1906 in Saarbrücken, the son of two actors, and grew up in Berlin. After training as an engineer, he was an actor at the Volksbühne in Berlin, then worked in dubbing and radio. He made advertising films from 1935 and appeared as an actor in an antisemitic propaganda film. After the war, he worked mainly for DEFA, in the East, while living in West Berlin, before settling in the mid-fifties in West Germany. He ended his career in television and died in 1984.

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