Wolfgang Petersen
Born: 1941-03-14 in Emden, Germany
Died: 2022-08-12
Known For: Directing
Biography
Wolfgang Petersen was a German-born screenwriter, producer and film director who spent most of his career in the United States. In the 1960s he began working directing plays at the Ernst Deutsch Theater in Hamburg. After becoming interested in theater in Berlin and Hamburg, Petersen attended the Berlin Film and Television Academy (1966-70). His first productions were for German state television, and it was during his work on the popular crime series Crime Scene that he met actor Jürgen Prochnow, who would later appear in his iconic film Das Boot (1981). His other films include The NeverEnding Story (1984), cult film Enemy Mine (1985), Shattered (1991), In the Line of Fire (1993), Outbreak (1995), Air Force One (1997), The Perfect Storm (2000), Troy (2004), Poseidon (2006) and Four Against the Bank (2016), his latest film.
Filmography
2023
- U-96, The True Story of 'Das Boot' as Self (archive footage)
2021
- Das Boot Revisited: An Underwater Success Story as Self - Das Boot Screenwriter and Director
2016
- Four Against the Bank ... (Director)
2013
2012
- Der Bernd as Self
2011
2006
- Poseidon ... (Producer)
- Filmlegenden. Deutsch as Self
2005
- Gottschalk meets Petersen as Himself
2004
- Troy ... (Producer)
2003
- The Agency ... (Executive Producer)
2002
- Starbuck Holger Meins as Self
2001
- The Agency ... (Creator)
2000
- The Perfect Storm ... (Producer)
1999
- Bicentennial Man ... (Producer)
- Instinct ... (Executive Producer)
- The Directors as Self
1997
- Red Corner ... (Executive Producer)
- Air Force One ... (Director)
- Das Boot - The Director's Cut ... (Director)
1995
- Outbreak ... (Director)
1993
- In the Line of Fire ... (Director)
1992
1985
- Das Boot ... (Screenplay)
- Enemy Mine ... (Director)
1984
- Goldene Kamera as Self
- The NeverEnding Story as Man Who Drops Milk (uncredited)
1982
- Na sowas! as Self
1981
- Wetten, dass..? as Self
- Das Boot ... (Screenplay)
- Das Boot: Behind The Scenes as Self
1979
- NDR Talk Show as Self
- Bavarian Film Awards as Self
1978
- Bio’s Bahnhof as Self
- Black and White Like Day and Night ... (Director)
1977
- Planübung ... (Writer)
- The Consequence ... (Director)
- Please Turn the Page as Self
1976
- Four Against the Bank ... (Director)
- Hans in Luck ... (Director)
1975
- Stellenweise Glatteis ... (Director)
- Die Stadt im Tal ... (Director)
1974
- One or the Other of Us ... (Director)
- Pinned to the Ground ... (Director)
1973
- Smog ... (Author)
- Van der Valk and the Rich ... (Director)
1971
- I Will Kill You, Wolf ... (Director)
1970
- Scene of the Crime ... (Director)
1969
- Ich Nicht ... (Director)
1967
- The Foundling ... (Assistant Director)
- The Cuckoo Years ... (Assistant Director)
- Der Eine - der Andere ... (Director)
1965
- Stadt auf Stelzen ... (Director)
1964
- Grimme Award as Self
1948
- Bambi as Self