Peter Capell
Born: 1912-09-03 in Berlin, Germany
Died: 1986-03-03
Known For: Acting
Biography
Peter Capell (3 September 1912 - 3 March 1985) was a German actor who was active on screen from 1945 until 1985. His first role was in Winterset, shortly after the end of the Second World War. His final role came a year before his death, when he appeared in Mamas Geburtstag. Both of these were television productions. He also appeared in many films, including Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971), in which he played a "tinker" who spoke to Charlie Bucket (Peter Ostrum) at the gates of Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. Capell died, aged 72, in March 1985. Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Capell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
1985
1984
- The Little Drummer Girl as Schwindli
1982
- The Charterhouse of Parma as Abbé Blanes
1981
- Charlotte as Grandfather
- Doctor Snuggles as Krick-Krack
- Smuggler as Captain König
1980
- The American Success Company as Lichtenstein
1979
- Son of Hitler as Fritz Buchmann
1978
- Fedora as Second Director
- Holocaust
- Ehrlich währt am längsten as Sir George Chudleigh
1976
- The Spy Who Never Was as Mahmoud
- So oder so ist das Leben
1974
- Derrick as Häftling
- Hardness 10
- Wachtmeister Rahn
1973
- Immobilien as Dr. Ringer
- Okay S.I.R. as Professor
- Sex Clinic '74 as Direktor
- Kara Ben Nemsi Effendi as Hulam
- Der Vorgang
1972
- Escape to the Sun as Prof. Abramowiz
- Das Jahrhundert der Chirurgen as Sir Thomas Barlow
- Hausfrauen-Report 3 as Rechtsanwalt
1971
- Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory as The Tinker
- Most Girls Will as Arzt
- The Long Swift Sword of Siegfried as Priest (uncredited)
- The Smugglers
1970
- Hauser's Memory as Dr. Shepilov
- Der Mann am Strick as Levi
- Dial Love for Murder as Vanetti
- Wer ist der nächste? as Kettle
1968
- Assignment K
- Das Missverständliche im Leben des Herrn Knöbel as Salmeier
- Ein Sarg für Mr. Holloway as Spider
- Die Mühle von Sanssouci as Voltaire
- Die goldene Pille as Priester
1967
- Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre as Major Gorski
- Der Auswanderer as Der Auswanderer
- Glorious Times in the Spessart as Mayor
- Ein treuer Diener seines Herrn as Graf Simon
1966
- Pater Brown as Sir Aren
- I Deal In Danger as Eckhardt
1965
- Auf einem Bahnhof bei Dijon as Eric Borunesco
- Der Spielverderber - Das kurze, verstörte Leben des Kaspar Hauser as Gelehrter
1964
- Die Teilnahme as Ezra Shaber
- Krimi-Quiz - Amateure als Kriminalisten
- Bei Tag und Nacht as Marchese Ricardo
- Ich fahre Patschold as Doctor Trautbein
- Napoleon greift ein as Landru
- Der Prozeß Carl von O. as Dritter Mitarbeiter der 'Weltbühne'
1963
- Das Kriminalmuseum as Dr. Leppje
- Maria Stuart as Aubespine
- Der arme Bitos... oder Das Diner der Köpfe as Philippe / Jesuitenpater
- Der Fall Sacco und Vanzetti as Musmano
1962
- Egmont as Machiavelli
- The Counterfeit Traitor as Unger (uncredited)
1961
- One, Two, Three as Mishkin
- The Big Show as Pietro Vizzini
1960
- Satan Tempts with Love as Geck
- Die eiskalte Nacht as Kalany
- Zur letzten Instanz as Nectaire
- So ist es - ist es so? as Lamberto Laudisi
1959
- For the First Time as Intendant Huebner
- Judgment at Nuremberg as Geuter
- Du gehörst mir
- Das große Messer as Smiley Coy
1958
- Wet Asphalt as Jimmy Donnagan
- Die Abiturientin as Professor Dr. Edmund Spindler
- The Vikings as Minor Role (uncredited)
- Schwester Bonaventura as Dr. Jeffreys
- A Gift for Heidi as Doc
- Der öffentliche Ankläger as Montané
1957
- The Burglar as Baylock
- Paths of Glory as Narrator of Opening Sequence
- The Night of the Storm as Dr. Baumgarten
- Montserrat as Izquierdo
1956
1952
- Walk East on Beacon as Chris Zalenko / Gino