FrameThrower · Actors · Wolfgang Preiss
Wolfgang Preiss
3 films · 168 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1960–1971
Born 27 February 1910 · Nuremberg, Germany · died 27 November 2002
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Wolfgang Preiss was a German theatre, film and television actor.
The son of a teacher, in the early 1930s Preiss studied philosophy, German and drama. He also took private acting classes with Hans Schlenck, making his stage début in Munich in 1932. He went to appear in various theatre productions in Heidelberg, Königsberg, Bonn, Bremen, Stuttgart and Berlin.
In 1942 he made his film début - he was exempted from military service specifically - in the UFA production Die grosse Liebe with Zarah Leander.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 168 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1960–1971
- German Film Award
How their films are shot
Measured across 168 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Wolfgang takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 61% of their frames are night, 61% low key — the look of the work Wolfgang takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 168 frames from Wolfgang Preiss's 3 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.