Trivia

Began as an actor with Max Reinhardt, making his professional stage debut in 1929 in Berlin. Entered films in 1933 as writer/director of advertising shorts. Became a key figure in the reconstruction of the German film industry after the war, turning out two highly regarded films with an anti-fascist theme: Murderers Among Us (1946) and Rotation (1949).

The director Wolfgang Staudte was one of the great post-war director. Staudte had the honour to direct the first post-war German movie - the masterpiece "Die Mörder sind unter uns" (1946).

His work in anti-Nazi films, such as Murderers Among Us (1946), was also a personal working through of his film career under the Nazis (he acted in the anti-Semitic film Jud Süß).

His father was the actor Fritz Staudte.

Great-uncle of director Andy Siege.

Son of Fritz Staudte.

Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945". Pages 1038-1041. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987.

Wolfgang Staudte continued his career in Federal Republic of Germany where he only was able at the end of the 50's to go on from his earlier successes.

Wolfgang Staudte was among others married with the actress Ingmar Zeisberg.

By the 1970s, his work was no longer considered particularly modern and he moved to television.

Wolfgang Staudte realised his first great movie in 1943 with the legendary clown Charlie Rivel and his movie "Akrobat schö-ö-ön" (1943).

To his most important works for television belong the serial "Der Seewolf" (19) and the serial "Lockruf des Goldes" (1975). Beside it he also director popular productions like the serial "MS Franziska" (1977), the serial "Der eiserne Gustav" (1979) and Satan ist auf Gottes Seite" (1983).

From the 70's he directed after "Die Herren mit der weissen Weste" (1970) movies for television by the majority, among others he contributed several episodes to the serials "Der Kommissar" and "Tatort".

Wolfgang Staudte began his career in 1926 as a theater actor, from 1931 he also worked regularly as an actor in movies.

He made first experiences as a director with the short movie "Ein jeder hat mal Glück" (1933), an activity he carried on regularly from 1943 and which brought him in a place in the German film history.