Robert Graf (actor)

This article is about the actor. For people named Robert Graf, see Robert Graf (disambiguation).

Robert Graf
Robert Graf
Born	(1923-11-18)18 November 1923 Witten, Germany
Died	4 February 1966(1966-02-04) (aged 42) Munich, Bavaria, West Germany
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1952–1966

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. 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.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1952	Illusion in a Minor Key	Franz
1957	Jonas	Jonas
1957	El Hakim	Abubakr
1958	Wir Wunderkinder	Bruno Tiches
1959	And That on Monday Morning	Herbert Acker
1959	The Beautiful Adventure	Marius Bridot
1959	The Buddenbrooks	Bendix Grünlich
1960	The Woman by the Dark Window	Thomas Melchior
1960	Sweetheart of the Gods	Dr. Hertel
1960	My Schoolfriend	Dr. Lerch
1960	Hauptmann, deine Sterne	Emil Kowalek
1961	The Forger of London	Basil Hale
1961	Mörderspiel	Dr. Horn
1962	Wenn beide schuldig werden	Dr. Hassfeld
1962	The Happy Years of the Thorwalds	Ernst Bieber
1963	The Great Escape	Werner "The Ferret"
1963	12 Angry Men	Juror 8	TV movie
1963	Zwei Whisky und ein Sofa	Dr. Wiesmer / Ping
1964	A Mission for Mr. Dodd	Toni
1964	Frühstück mit dem Tod	Hal Young, Second Prosecutor
1964	Condemned to Sin	Der Vertreter
1965	Klaus Fuchs – Geschichte eines Atomverrats	Klaus Fuchs	TV movie
1965	Halløj i himmelsengen	Mr. Noël, teacher
1966	Face of a Hero	David Poole	TV movie

External links

• Robert Graf at IMDb
• Robert Graf Bio on Filmportal.de