Early life
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Kahler was born in Kiel in Germany.
Wolf Kahler | |
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| Born | 3 April 1940 |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1975–present |
Wolf Kahler (born 3 April 1940) is a German character actor in stage, film, television, and voice actor. [1] [2] [3]
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Kahler was born in Kiel in Germany.
With blue eyes and height of 6'2" (1.88m), Kahler was often chosen to play unsympathetic German characters or Nazis.
He appeared in the British production of the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes as the young Bohemian king in "A Scandal in Bohemia" and in "A Game of Shadows".
Since 1975, he has appeared in many English-language American and British television and film productions. [4] One of his early roles was that of Kaiser Wilhelm II in Michael York's adventure film The Riddle of the Sands . [5] One of his best-known roles was that of Hermann Dietrich in Raiders of the Lost Ark . [2]
Among the characters he has voiced in video games is Kaiser Vlad in Battalion Wars . [6] Kahler played the Prince of Tübingen in Stanley Kubrick's 1975 film, Barry Lyndon . [2] [7] In 2001, he played a Wehrmacht General in a television miniseries about World War II, Band of Brothers . [8] In the Clint Eastwood spy thriller Firefox (1982), Kahler played KGB chairman Yuri Andropov. In 2011 Kahler appeared as Dr. Hoffmanstahl in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows . [2] [9] In 2017, he played a German Commander in the Warner Bros./DCEU film Wonder Woman . [3]
Kahler is an expatriate living in England.
The Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican, a drama by Robin Glendinning, was first broadcast in 2006, on BBC Radio4. Kahler played Herbert Kappler, a Nazi war criminal, who is befriended in his cell by a Vatican priest; the story is based on the real-life adventures of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty. [11] [12]
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