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Wolfgang Petersen

Wolfgang Petersen

Directing
14 Mar 1941
12 Aug 2022
Emden, Germany

Biography

Wolfgang Petersen was a German-born screenwriter, producer and film director who spent most of his career in the United States. In the 1960s he began working directing plays at the Ernst Deutsch Theater in Hamburg. After becoming interested in theater in Berlin and Hamburg, Petersen attended the Berlin Film and Television Academy (1966-70). His first productions were for German state television, and it was during his work on the popular crime series Crime Scene that he met actor Jürgen Prochnow,...

Also Known As

Wolfgang Petersen, فولفغانغ بيترسن

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