Actor
Robert Graf
November 18, 1923 · Witten, Germany
Robert Graf (November 18, 1923 – February 4, 1966) was a German actor who played the role of Werner, "The Ferret" in the 1963 movie The Great Escape. Graf was born in Witten, Germany in 1923. In 1942, after completing his Abitur, he was conscripted into the Wehrmacht and sent to the Eastern Front. He was wounded in 1944, and assigned to war production duties in Munich, where he began his study of theater.[1] In 1952, Graf married the actress Selma Urfer and had three children. He was the father of the director Dominik Graf. Robert Graf died of cancer in Munich in 1966 at age 42.
Notable work
Often works with
Ulrich Beiger
3 titles together
The Great Escape, The Forger of London, El Hakim
Ralf Wolter
3 titles together
The Twelve Jurors, Aren't We Wonderful, Beautiful Adventure
Joseph Offenbach
3 titles together
The Forger of London, Buddenbrooks - 1. Teil, Condemned to Sin
Hans Leibelt
3 titles together
Aren't We Wonderful, Buddenbrooks - 1. Teil, Mein Schulfreund
Horst Tappert
3 titles together
Aren't We Wonderful, Zu viele Köche, Beautiful Adventure
Hans Clarin
3 titles together
Lampenfieber, Beautiful Adventure, Porträt eines Helden
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Porträt eines Helden
as David Poole
1966Der Drache
as Drache
1965
Der Fall Klaus Fuchs
as Dr.Klaus Fuchs
1965
Halløj i himmelsengen
as Hr. Noël
1965
Condemned to Sin
as Vertreter
1964
Der Autokult
as Narrator (voice)
1964
Frühstück mit dem Tod
as Hal Young, stellvertret. Staasanwalt
1964Der Hund des Generals
as Gefreiter Pfeiffer
1964
Vorsicht Mister Dodd
as Toni
1964Zwei Whisky und ein Sofa
as Dr. Wiesner
1963
The Twelve Jurors
as Achter Geschworener
19637.8
The Great Escape
as Werner 'The Ferret'
19637.9