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German actor (born 1940) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wolf Kahler (born 3 April 1940) is a German stage, film, television, and voice actor.[1][2][3]
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Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1975–present |
Since 1975, he has appeared in many English-language American and British television and film productions.[4] One of his early roles was that of Kaiser Wilhelm II in Michael York's adventure film The Riddle of the Sands.[5] One of his best-known roles was that of Hermann Dietrich in Raiders of the Lost Ark.[2]
Among the characters he has voiced in video games is Kaiser Vlad in Battalion Wars.[6] Kahler played the Prince of Tübingen in Stanley Kubrick's 1975 film, Barry Lyndon.[2][7] In 2001, he played a Wehrmacht General in a television miniseries about World War II, Band of Brothers.[8] In the Clint Eastwood spy thriller Firefox (1982), Kahler played KGB chairman Yuri Andropov. In 2011 Kahler appeared as Dr. Hoffmanstahl in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.[2][9] In 2017, he played a German Commander in the Warner Bros./DCEU film Wonder Woman.[3]
The Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican, a drama by Robin Glendinning, was first broadcast in 2006, on BBC Radio4. Kahler played Herbert Kappler, a Nazi war criminal, who is befriended in his cell by a Vatican priest; the story is based on the real-life adventures of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty.[11][12]