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Günter Meisner was born on 18 April, 1926 in Bremen, Weimar Republic. He is a German actor who has appeared in numerous films and television series. He is best known for his roles in the films The Tin Drum (1979), The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979), and The Legend of Paul and Paula (1973). Meisner began his career as a stage actor in the 1950s, and made his film debut in the 1960s. He has since appeared in over 100 films and television series. He has won numerous awards for his work, including the Bavarian Film Award for Best Actor in 1979 for his performance in The Tin Drum. Meisner is married to actress Gudrun Meisner, and they have two children. He currently resides in Berlin. As of 2021, Günter Meisner's net worth is estimated to be roughly $2 million.

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Occupation Actor
Age 68 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 18 April 1926
Birthday 18 April
Birthplace Bremen, Weimar Republic
Date of death (1994-12-05) Berlin, Germany
Died Place Berlin, Germany
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1994

Meisner died on 5 December 1994 at the age of 68 of heart failure, during the filming of an episode of the television series Tatort. He is buried in Berlin's Friedhof Heerstraße Cemetery.

1982

Meisner often played stock character Nazi officers and other sinister characters. He portrayed Hitler in the 1982 Franco-German action comedy, L'as des as (Ace of Aces), and in the ABC television miniseries, The Winds of War (miniseries). He also appeared in the CBS miniseries, Blood and Honor and Southern Television's Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years.

1971

Other films Meisner took part in were Is Paris Burning?, The Quiller Memorandum, Funeral in Berlin, and The Boys from Brazil. He was Mr. Slugworth/Mr. Wilkinson in the 1971 film version of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. He also appeared in several television commercials.

1967

From 1967 to 1969 Meisner participated in relief efforts in Biafra, Nigeria. He also produced two films criticising racial discrimination: Don't Look for Me in Places Where I Can't Be Found and Bega Dwa Bega (One for All), a Swahili-language film for the Tanzanian Film Unit.

1959

As a theatre actor and director, Meisner founded the Gallery Diogenes in Berlin in 1959 for visual art and mainly absurd theater. In 1961, he also founded the International Association for Arts and Sciences.

1948

Born in Bremen, Meisner briefly worked at a steel foundry before training as a radio operator with the Luftwaffe's Fallschirmjäger (paratroopers). After the war, though he was interested in a career in sculpture and painting, in 1948 he switched to drama and studied under Gustaf Gründgens at Düsseldorf's State Conservatory, where he also got his first job at the local Schauspielhaus.

1926

Günter Meisner (18 April 1926 – 5 December 1994) was a German film and television character actor. He is remembered for his several cinematic portrayals of Adolf Hitler and for his role as Arthur Slugworth in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. He was fluent in four languages and appeared in many English-language, German-language and French-language films.