Wolf Kahler

German actor (born 1940)

Wolf Kahler
Born	(1940-04-03) 3 April 1940 (age 84) Kiel, German Reich
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1975–present

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

Early life

Kahler was born in Kiel in Germany.

Career

With blue eyes and height of 6'2" (1.88m), Kahler was often chosen to play unsympathetic German characters or Nazis.

He appeared in the British production of the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes as the young Bohemian king in "A Scandal in Bohemia" and in "A Game of Shadows".

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]

Personal life

Kahler is an expatriate living in England.

Filmography

Film

1975 Barry Lyndon as Prince of Tübingen
1976 The Eagle Has Landed as SS Hauptsturmführer Fleischer (uncredited)^{[citation needed]}
1977 March or Die as first German
1978 Force 10 from Navarone as German soldier at supply dump
1978 The Boys from Brazil as Schwimmer
1979 The Riddle of the Sands as Kaiser Wilhelm II
1979 The Lady Vanishes as Helmut von Reider
1980 Rough Cut as De Gooyer
1980 The Sea Wolves as Trompeta
1981 At the Fountainhead as Wolfgang Leonhard
1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark as Colonel Hermann Dietrich
1981 Priest of Love as German officer
1982 Firefox as KGB Chairman Andropov
1982 Remembrance as Dutch Matelot
1983 High Road to China as Von Hess
1983 Ascendancy as Muller
1983 The Keep as SS adjutant
1985 A Zed & Two Noughts as Felipe Arc-en-Ciel
1988 The Bourne Identity as Gold Glasses
1992 Shining Through as border commandant
1993 The Remains of the Day as German ambassador
1994 Backbeat as Bert Kaempfert
1996 Loch Ness as Dr. Muller
1997 Firelight as Sussman
2000 Britannic as Captain Kruger
2001 The Lost Battalion as General Von Sybel
2001 Charlotte Gray as Oberleutenant Lindermann
2004 Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason as Commentator
2010 Shanghai as German consul
2011 Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows as Dr. Hoffmanstahl
2012 Full Firearms as Adam
2012 Cockneys vs Zombies as Nazi officer
2017 Wonder Woman as German commander
2017 Damascus Cover as Colonel Ludwig Streicher
2023 The Great Escaper as Heinrich

Short films

2008 Haber as Erich Ludendorff
2010 Stasi Dog as the narrator
2012 Cold Warrior as Bochinsky
2016 Millefeuille as Hans-Peter (Opa)
2016 Rubicon as Dirk Van de Cleef
2020 Cognition as Dr. Zoger

Television

1980 Don Siegel: Last of the Independents as himself
1980 The Sandbaggers as Lincke
1982 The Secret Adversary as the German
1982 Hess as Rudolf Hess^[10]
1984 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes as King of Bohemia
1985 Space as Funkhauser
1985 The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission as General Sepp Dietrich
1987 The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission as Colonel Krieger
1987 A Perfect Spy as Lieutenant Dollendorf
1988 War and Remembrance as SS Major Anton Burger
1992 The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles as German second at duel
1993 Soldier Soldier as Dr. Heller
1999 Kavanagh QC as Dieter Klausen
2000 Dalziel and Pascoe as Jurgen Falke
2001 Band of Brothers as German general
2001 Red Cap as General Joachim Ulmke
2004 London as German traveller
2005 The Girl in the Café (TV) as Herr Gerhardt
2006 The Somme - From Defeat to Victory as General Hans von Plessen
2008 George Gently – Bomber's Moon as Gunter Schmeikel
2014 Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond as Admiral Brandel
2019 BBC Look North (Yorkshire and North Midlands) as himself
2019 The Mallorca Files as Hans Weber

Video games

1998 Metal Gear Solid as Donald Anderson / Revolver Ocelot / Jim Houseman (German dub)
1999 Syphon Filter as Thomas Markinson (German dub)
2003 Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness as Grant Muller
2004 Half-Life 2 as Dr. Wallace Breen (German dub)
2005 Battalion Wars as Kaiser Vlad
2007 Battalion Wars 2 as Kaiser Vlad / Lord Ferrok
2008 The Club as Enemy Characters
2009 IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey as German Voice
2010 Kirby's Epic Yarn as The Narrator (German Version)
2011 Crysis 2 as Karl Ernst Rasch (German & English dub)
2013 Crysis 3 as Karl Ernst Rasch (German & English dub)
2013 Company of Heroes 2 as German Announcer
2015 Calvino Noir as Arno
2017 Raid: World War II as Dr. Maximillion Reihnhart
2018 Call of Cthulhu: The Official Video Game as Thomas Fuller
2019 Close to the Sun as Aubrey King

Thanks

2012 Raiding the Lost Ark: A Filmumentary (special thanks)

Soundtrack

2008 Inspector George Gently (performer: The Lambton Worm Song – Episode: "Bomber's Moon")

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]

References

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^ ^a ^b "Wolf Kahler". BFI. Archived from the original on 16 September 2018. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
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^ "The Riddle of the Sands (1978)". BFI. Archived from the original on 31 December 2022. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
^ "Wolf Kahler – Harvey Voices". Archived from the original on 25 June 2020. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
^ "Barry Lyndon (1975) – Stanley Kubrick – Cast and Crew". AllMovie. Archived from the original on 1 August 2018. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
^ "Wolf Kahler". www.aveleyman.com. Archived from the original on 1 August 2018. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
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^ Fraser, C. Gerald (7 March 1982). "Television Week". The New York Times. p. A2. Archived from the original on 27 November 2020. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
^ "The Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican". Imperial War Museums. Archived from the original on 1 August 2018. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
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