Peter Capell
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Biography: Peter Capell (3 September 1912 - 3 March 1985) was a German actor who was active on screen from 1945 until 1985. His first role was in Winterset, shortly after the end of the Second World War. His final role came a year before his death, when he appeared in Mamas Geburtstag. Both of these were television productions. He also appeared in many films, including Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971), in which he played a "tinker" who spoke to Charlie Bucket (Peter Ostrum) at the gates of Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. Capell died, aged 72, in March 1985. Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Capell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
Adult: No
Birthday: September 03, 1912
Age: 112 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 03, 1986
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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Overview: When eccentric candy man Willy Wonka promises a lifetime supply of sweets and a tour of his chocolate factory to five lucky kids, penniless Charlie Bucket seeks the golden ticket that will make him a winner.
Genres: Family Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-06-29
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One, Two, Three
Overview: C.R. MacNamara is a managing director for Coca Cola in West Berlin during the Cold War, just before the Wall is put up. When Scarlett, the rebellious daughter of his boss, comes to West Berlin, MacNamara has to look after her, but this turns out to be a difficult task when she reveals to be married to a communist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-15
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Paths of Glory
Overview: A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-25
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Dial Love for Murder
Overview: A man plans to kill his wealthy wife for her money and so he can be with his beautiful young mistress. However, things don't turn out exactly as he had planned.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-12-22
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The Big Show
Overview: A European circus family is torn apart by greed and jealousy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-10
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The Burglar
Overview: Burglar Nat Harbin and his two associates set their sights on wealthy spiritualist Sister Sarah, who has inherited a fortune -- including a renowned emerald necklace -- from a Philadelphia financier. Using Nat's female ward, Gladden, to pose as an admirer and case the mansion where the woman lives, they set up a perfect break-in. Things get complicated afterwards.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-01
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Sorcerer
Overview: Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting several cases of dynamite (which is so old that it is dripping unstable nitroglycerin) across dangerous jungle terrain.
Genres: Thriller Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-24
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Wer ist der nächste?
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-07-22
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The Trapp Family
Overview: "The Trapp Family" is a true story based on the popular novel by the Baroness Von Trapp of Austria. The film was made in 1956, some years before the other film based on the Trapp Family's life was released - a little movie named "The Sound of Music".
Genres: Music Comedy Family Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-10-09
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The Vikings
Overview: Einar, brutal son of Ragnar and future heir to his throne, tangles with Eric, a wily slave, for the hand of a beautiful English maiden.
Genres: Adventure History Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-06-11
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Walk East on Beacon
Overview: An FBI agent works with a refugee scientist and the Coast Guard to crack a Soviet spy ring in Boston.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-01
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The American Success Company
Overview: A husband is humiliated at home and at work. He decides he has had enough of it and hires a prostitute to help him get back at his boss, wife and friends and get a lot richer in the process.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-01
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For the First Time
Overview: In this musical, a tempermental opera singer falls in love with a hearing-impaired young woman.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-02-26
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Ich fahre Patschold
Overview: Building contractor Rainer Patschold gets into financial turmoil by his own fault. Without thinking much about it, he has invested advances and loans for the modest 'Waldfrieden' housing estate in the large and promising 'Seydlitzdamm' project. Now, of all times, sales manager Wirsing plays the sick man, trying to show Patschold how irreplaceable he is for the company. To make matters worse, chief secretary Liebstöckel also drops out, collapsing under the double burden of work stress and an unhappy love affair. In addition to the business crisis, Patschold's private life is also under strain: his neglected wife is on the verge of a nervous breakdown, and his demanding mistress Doris is closing in on him with bag and baggage. But the clever Patschold finally knows how to help himself with the help of his equally shrewd chauffeur Göhrke.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-12-08
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Wet Asphalt
Overview: In Berlin, when the journalist Greg Bachmann is released from prison six months before the end of his sentence, there is a driver named Jupp waiting for him. Soon he learns that the famous journalist Cesar Boyd was the responsible for the shorter sentence. Cesar offers a position of his assistant to Greg; in return, Boyd would write his story about his interviews to war criminals and Greg would help him in other matters. Meanwhile Boyd welcomes the daughter of a deceased friend, Bettina, and he becomes her guardian.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-04-02
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Die eiskalte Nacht
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-10-26
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Egmont
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-06-16
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Bei Tag und Nacht
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-09-05
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Satan Tempts with Love
Overview: A crime movie directed by Rudolf Jugert.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-03-31
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Immobilien
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-02-21
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Das Missverständliche im Leben des Herrn Knöbel
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-06-08
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Wachtmeister Rahn
Overview: Tragic story of german police officer Ernst Rahn who gets enmeshed in criminal activities.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-11-22
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Assignment K
Overview: Philip Scott, the boss of a toy company, is secretly also the chief of a British spy organization. Scott's cover is destroyed when enemy agents kidnap his girlfriend to force him to reveal the identities of his fellow spies.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-02-16
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Ehrlich währt am längsten
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-07-11
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Glorious Times in the Spessart
Overview: The countess is married, and the ghosts are still in the Spessart. Her husband becomes an astronaut and the story involved time travelling and space travelling starts.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-09-21
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Son of Hitler
Overview: The leader of a right-wing German political party discovers that an illiterate woodcarver is actually the son of Adolf Hitler.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Die goldene Pille
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-01-11
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Sex Clinic '74
Overview: A bunch of high school graduates practice love with their classmates who have a lot of experience, because they spend their free time as escort ladies and therefore earn a lot of money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-04-25
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Du gehörst mir
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-01-27
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Die Abiturientin
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-02-28
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Mamas Geburtstag
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1985-04-17
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The Smugglers
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-11-27
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Hausfrauen-Report 2
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-11-25
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Hausfrauen-Report 3
Overview: German sex comedy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-06-02
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Der Spielverderber - Das kurze, verstörte Leben des Kaspar Hauser
Overview: In 1828 a man called Kaspar Hauser appears in Nuremberg, barely able to speak and walk. He is admitted to the house of a professor, who among other things explores Kaspar's unusual characteristics and deals with his education.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-08-23
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Maria Stuart
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-06-01
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The Night of the Storm
Overview: Despised by her husband and son after an affair, Marianne moves in with her lover, an unsuccessful painter, until she is purified.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-03-07
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Das große Messer
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-12-03
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Schwester Bonaventura
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-04-16
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Der Prozeß Carl von O.
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-02-12
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Der Fall Sacco und Vanzetti
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Genres: History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-08-21
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Ein treuer Diener seines Herrn
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-03-19
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Der arme Bitos... oder Das Diner der Köpfe
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-05-15
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The Little Drummer Girl
Overview: An American Actress with a penchant for lying is forceably recruited by Mosad, the Israeli intelligence agency to trap a Palestinian bomber, by pretending to be the girlfriend of his dead brother.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-19
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Zur letzten Instanz
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-09-21
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Fedora
Overview: An ambitious Hollywood hustler becomes involved with a reclusive female star, whom he tries to lure out of retirement.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-29
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Der Auswanderer
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-07-05
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Die Teilnahme
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-05-07
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Die Mühle von Sanssouci
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Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-02-29
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Ein Sarg für Mr. Holloway
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Der Mann am Strick
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-03-27
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Auf einem Bahnhof bei Dijon
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-08-16
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Hauser's Memory
Overview: A scientist is persuaded by the government to inject himself with the brain fluid of a dying colleague in order to preserve missile-defense secrets. However, he finds that he is now torn between his own wife and that of his dead colleague, who was a Nazi sympathizer.
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-24
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I Deal In Danger
Overview: Compilation of the show Blue Light.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-01
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So ist es - ist es so?
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-08-11
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So oder so ist das Leben
Overview: An entrepreneur of social prestige gets intimate with the housekeeper, while his wife has a lover who is 20 years younger than her, whom she eventually loses to her nymphomaniac daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-01-23
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Montserrat
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-04-26
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Napoleon greift ein
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-06-12
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Der öffentliche Ankläger
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-07-20
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Der Vorgang
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Genres: Thriller TV Movie Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-03-07
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Charlotte
Overview: In 1939, Charlotte Salomon leaves Berlin to seek refuge at her grandparents' villa in the south of France. A little later, war breaks out, and Charlotte must, besides forgetting all she left behind, deal with her grandmother's depression, and her mother's suicide. To fight despair, Charlotte starts to paint, producing over one thousand images. "Is my life real, or is it theater?" This is the title she gives her body of work, which highlights her former life in Berlin. She finds herself though her art, but in 1943 is deported to Germany and Auschwitz.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-26
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The Long Swift Sword of Siegfried
Overview: An "adults only" retelling of the legend of Siegfried.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Action
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-04-08
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Escape to the Sun
Overview: Two young university students wish to escape the oppressive Soviet Union. But their plans are monitored by the KGB, who try to intimidate them. One of them is taken into custody and tortured, which spurs them to make an escape attempt that could cost them their lives
Genres: Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-31
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The Spy Who Never Was
Overview: A diabolical tale of romance, murder, and mistaken identity as a treacherous terrorist organization hunts an enemy agent with the intention of killing him, but instead they set their sights on the wrong man. Left in the wake of their mistaken pursuit is a trail of broken lives and brutal murders.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-06-01
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The Counterfeit Traitor
Overview: Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany.
Genres: War Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-17
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Judgment at Nuremberg
Overview: Judgment at Nuremberg is an American television play broadcast live on April 16, 1959, as part of the CBS television series, Playhouse 90. It was a courtroom drama written by Abby Mann and directed by George Roy Hill that depicts the trial of four German judicial officials as part of the Nuremberg trials. Claude Rains starred as the presiding judge with Maximilian Schell as the defense attorney, Melvyn Douglas as the prosecutor, and Paul Lukas as the former German Minister of Justice.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-04-16
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Anastasia: the Czar's Last Daughter
Overview: In 1920, an unknown 24-year-old woman was fished out of Berlin's Landwehr kanal after a suicide attempt. Since she has no papers and no answers to any questions, they soon assign them to the insane asylum Dallendorf. A co-patient believes she recognizes the Czar's daughter Anastasia Romanowa - who apparently was the only one who survived the murder of the tsar's family in 1918.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-09-26
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