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
- Doctor Snuggles as Krick-Krack
- Smuggler as Captain König
- Charlotte as Grandfather
1980
- The American Success Company as Lichtenstein
1979
- Son of Hitler as Fritz Buchmann
1978
- Holocaust
- Fedora as Second Director
- Ehrlich währt am längsten as Sir George Chudleigh
1977
- The Old Fox
- Sorcerer as Lartigue
1976
- The Spy Who Never Was as Mahmoud
- So oder so ist das Leben
1974
- Derrick as Häftling
- Hardness 10
- Wachtmeister Rahn
1973
- Okay S.I.R. as Professor
- Kara Ben Nemsi Effendi as Hulam
- Sex Clinic '74 as Direktor
- Der Vorgang
- Immobilien as Dr. Ringer
1972
- The Century of Surgeons as Sir Thomas Barlow
- Hausfrauen-Report 3 as Rechtsanwalt
- Escape to the Sun as Prof. Abramowiz
1971
- Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory as The Tinker
- The Long Swift Sword of Siegfried as Priest (uncredited)
- Most Girls Will as Arzt
- The Smugglers
1970
- Hauser's Memory as Dr. Shepilov
- Dial Love for Murder as Vanetti
- Wer ist der nächste? as Kettle
- Der Mann am Strick as Levi
1968
- Assignment K
- Die Mühle von Sanssouci as Voltaire
- Ein Sarg für Mr. Holloway as Spider
- Die goldene Pille as Priester
- Das Missverständliche im Leben des Herrn Knöbel as Salmeier
1967
- Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre as Major Gorski
- Glorious Times in the Spessart as Mayor
- Der Auswanderer as Der Auswanderer
- 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
- Ich fahre Patschold as Doctor Trautbein
- Krimi-Quiz - Amateure als Kriminalisten
- Bei Tag und Nacht as Marchese Ricardo
- Napoleon greift ein as Landru
- Die Teilnahme as Ezra Shaber
- 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
- The Counterfeit Traitor as Unger (uncredited)
- Egmont as Machiavelli
1961
- One, Two, Three as Mishkin
- The Big Show as Pietro Vizzini
1960
- Satan Tempts with Love as Geck
- So ist es - ist es so? as Lamberto Laudisi
- Die eiskalte Nacht as Kalany
- Zur letzten Instanz as Nectaire
1959
- For the First Time as Intendant Huebner
- Judgment at Nuremberg as Geuter
- Du gehörst mir
- Das große Messer as Smiley Coy
1958
- The Vikings as Minor Role (uncredited)
- A Gift for Heidi as Doc
- Wet Asphalt as Jimmy Donnagan
- Die Abiturientin as Professor Dr. Edmund Spindler
- Der öffentliche Ankläger as Montané
- Schwester Bonaventura as Dr. Jeffreys
1957
- Paths of Glory as Narrator of Opening Sequence
- The Burglar as Baylock
- Montserrat as Izquierdo
- The Night of the Storm as Dr. Baumgarten
1956
1952
- Walk East on Beacon as Chris Zalenko / Gino