Wernher von Braun
Born: 1912-03-22 in Wirsitz, Germany [now Wyrzysk, Poland]
Died: 1977-06-16
Known For: Acting
Biography
Werner Von Braun was a rocket pioneer and became the world's leading rocket scientist. Starting his career as a Nazi SS officer in the 1930s, and leading the team that developed what became the V-2 rocket, over 3,000 of which were eventually launched at England and Belgium during the later years of WWII. Following the war, Von Braun and 1600 other Nazi scientists were relocated to the United States via Operation Paperclip. Von Braun went to work for the US Army building early ballistic missiles, but was eventually absorbed into NACA, which became NASA, and became the first Director of the Marshall Space Flight Center, whose primary task was development of the Saturn V heavy-lift rocket system which was used in the NASA manned moon landings in the late 60s-early 70s.
Filmography
2025
- NASA, Nazis and the Space Race as Self
2022
- Beyond Tomorrow as Himself
2020
- History 101 as Self (archive footage)
2019
- Apollo: Missions to the Moon as Self - Rocket Scientist, NASA (archive footage)
2016
- Загадки века с Сергеем Медведевым as Self (archive footage)
2014
- The Saturn V Story as Self (archive footage)
2013
- Sirius as Self (archive footage)
2008
- Moon Machines as Self
2002
- Dark Side of the Moon as Self (archive footage)
1995
- Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie as Self (archive footage)
1969
- Footprints On The Moon as Narrator
1968
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
1958
- Small World as Self
1957
- Mars and Beyond as Himself
1955
- Man and the Moon as Self
- Man in Space as Self