Werner Pledath Explained

Werner Pledath
Birth Date:	26 April 1898
Occupation:	Actor
Yearsactive:	1923 - 1965 (film)

Werner Pledath (26 April 1898 – 6 December 1965) was a German actor who appeared in many films during a lengthy career. He generally played supporting roles such as in Five from the Jazz Band (1932).^[1] Pledath specialized in playing powerful, authority figures. Following the Second World War he appeared in several films made in East Germany.

Selected filmography

• Man by the Wayside (1923)
• The Street Song (1931)
• Who Takes Love Seriously? (1931)
• Dreaming Lips (1932)
• I by Day, You by Night (1932)
• Things Are Getting Better Already (1932)
• Five from the Jazz Band (1932)
• The Invisible Front (1932)
• Scandal in Budapest (1933)
• Today Is the Day (1933)
• Mother and Child (1934)
• The Higher Command (1935)
• The Valiant Navigator (1935)
• Pygmalion (1935)
• The Saint and Her Fool (1935)
• Port Arthur (1936)
• Savoy Hotel 217 (1936)
• Victoria in Dover (1936)
• White Slaves (1937)
• Dangerous Crossing (1937)
• Mother Song (1937)
• The Chief Witness (1937)
• Triad (1938)
• Red Orchids (1938)
• The Night of Decision (1938)
• The Muzzle (1938)
• By a Silken Thread (1938)
• A Prussian Love Story (1938)
• Escape in the Dark (1939)
• Police Report (1939)
• In the Name of the People (1939)
• Robert Koch (1939)
• A Hopeless Case (1939)
• The Governor (1939)
• Our Miss Doctor (1940)
• The Three Codonas (1940)
• Diesel (1942)
• Between Heaven and Earth (1942)
• Circus Renz (1943)
• The Golden Spider (1943)
• Laugh Bajazzo (1943)
• The Degenhardts (1944)
• Street Acquaintances (1948)
• Thank You, I'm Fine (1948)
• The Blue Swords (1949)
• The Appeal to Conscience (1949)
• The Benthin Family (1950)
• The Last Year (1951)
• The Condemned Village (1952)
• Anna Susanna (1953)
• Ernst Thälmann (1954)

Bibliography

• Youngkin, Stephen. The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre. University Press of Kentucky, 2005.

Notes and References

1. Youngkin p.465