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name: "Wilfried Seyferth"
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roles: ["Actor"]
born: "21 April 1908"
died: "9 October 1954"
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average_as: "actor"
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# Wilfried Seyferth

Actor. Born 21 April 1908 in Darmstadt, Germany. Died 9 October 1954.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 21 April 1908, Darmstadt, Germany
- **Died:** 9 October 1954
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfried_Seyferth, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2571363, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0786756/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/38245

## Biography

Wilfried Seyferth was a German actor. Born in Darmstadt, he trained at the acting school of the Deutsches Theater in Berlin and made his stage debut in 1929. He worked in theatres in Berlin, Frankfurt, Vienna and Zurich, and later at the Münchner Kammerspiele, appearing in classics by Shakespeare, Lessing, Chekhov, Gogol and Shaw. He also performed at the Salzburg Festival and other venues.

Seyferth appeared in films from 1933. In the 1950s he played villainous roles, including Nazi characters in the American productions *Decision Before Dawn* (1951) as Heinz Scholtz, an SS man, and *The Devil Makes Three* (1952). He also appeared in German films such as *08/15* (1954) as Major Luschke.

*Sources: imdb.com, de.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Decision Before Dawn* (1951), Fi1m 79, as Heinz Scholtz, SS-Mann — [page](https://film.one/film/decision-before-dawn.md)

## Complete filmography (25)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Secrets of the City* (1955), as Stranger
- *The Golden Plague* (1954), as Wenzeslaw Kolowrat
- *08/15* (1954), as Major Luschke
- *Ein toller Tag* (1954), Actor
- *Rosen aus dem Süden* (1954), as Pierre
- *Das tanzende Herz* (1953), as Leopold
- *The Grapes Are Ripe* (1952), as Gustav Knuzius
- *Homesick for You* (1952), as Vicky Hanke
- *The Devil Makes Three* (1952), as Hansig
- *Decision Before Dawn* (1951), as Heinz Scholtz, SS-Mann — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/decision-before-dawn.md)
- *This Man Belongs to Me* (1950), as Paul Fänger
- *Ghost in the Castle* (1947), as Willi Busse
- *Leuchtende Schatten* (1945), Actor
- *Immensee* (1943), Actor
- *Das Bad auf der Tenne* (1943), as Amtsgehilfe Jan
- *Die Wirtin zum weißen Röss'l* (1943), as Otto
- *My Wife Theresa* (1942), as Maler
- *Rembrandt* (1942), as Ulricus Vischer
- *Small Town Poet* (1940), as Emil Kurz, Friseur
- *The Star of Rio* (1940), Actor
- *Salonwagen E 417* (1939), as Willy Fetthenne
- *The Day After the Divorce* (1938), as Max Pleschke, Angestellter bei Romberg
- *Skandal um den Hahn* (1938), as Franz Langmann
- *Under Blazing Heavens* (1936), as Pop, Matrose
- *Tugboat M 17* (1933), as Jakob

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