---
name: "Wolfgang Heinz"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/wolfgang-heinz"
fi1m_id: "wolfgang-heinz"
imdb_id: "nm0374594"
tmdb_id: 9848
wikidata_id: "Q89376"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "17 May 1900"
died: "30 October 1984"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T05:56:41.526137+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Wolfgang Heinz

## Identity

Wolfgang Heinz

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/wolfgang-heinz
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** wolfgang-heinz
- **IMDb ID:** nm0374594
- **TMDB ID:** 9848
- **Wikidata ID:** Q89376
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Heinz_(actor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q89376, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0374594/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/9848

Actor. Born 17 May 1900 in Plzen/Pilsen, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Plzen, Czech Republic]. Died 30 October 1984.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 17 May 1900, Plzen/Pilsen, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Plzen, Czech Republic]
- **Died:** 30 October 1984
- **Also known as:** Вольфганг Хайнц
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Heinz_(actor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q89376, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0374594/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/9848

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Nosferatu*](https://film.one/film/nosferatu-1922.md) (88)

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## Biography

Wolfgang Heinz (born David Hirsch) was an Austrian and East German actor and theatre director. He began his career without formal training, working in German theatres from 1917 and joining the Deutsches Theater in Berlin in 1918. His screen debut came in 1919, with an early film role as the first mate on the Empusa in F. W. Murnau’s *Nosferatu* (1922).

Heinz appeared in more than 300 stage roles and directed around 80 plays. He was particularly noted for portrayals of title characters including King Lear, Galileo, Wallenstein, Nathan the Wise and Professor Mamlock. In East Germany he held senior positions, including director of the Staatliche Schauspielschule Berlin and president of the Academy of the Arts in East Berlin (1968–1974). He was married to actress Erika Pelikowsky.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Nosferatu* (1922), Fi1m 88, as Sailor 1 — [page](https://film.one/film/nosferatu-1922.md)

## Complete filmography (18)

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

- *John Cranko: The Taming of the Shrew  @ Stuttgart Ballet* (2022), Conductor
- *Die Rache des Kapitäns Mitchell* (1979), Actor
- *And Then the First Rice* (1977), Actor
- *I Was, I Am, I Will Be* (1974), as Narrator (voice)
- *The Naked Man on the Sports Field* (1974), Actor
- *The Little Prince* (1972), Actor
- *The Golden Thing* (1972), as Castor
- *The Russian Miracle* (1963), as (narrator)
- *Professor Mamlock* (1961), as Professor Hans Mamlock
- *Action J* (1961), as Narrator (voice)
- *Geschwader Fledermaus* (1958), as General Lee
- *Gasparone* (1955), as Podesta Nasone
- *Der Komödiant von Wien* (1954), as Franz von Suppe
- *A Blonde Dream* (1932), as Portier
- *A Man's a Man* (1931), Actor
- *The Twelfth Hour* (1930), as Maat (Archive footage)
- *Nosferatu* (1922), as Sailor 1 — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/nosferatu-1922.md)
- *Humanity Unleashed* (1920), as Kulicke

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Goethe Prize of the City of Berlin 1976: Goethe Prize of the City of Berlin (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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