Wolf Kahler

Wolf Kahler (born 3 April 1940) is a German stage, film, television, and voice actor.

Since 1975, he has appeared in many English-language American and British television and film productions. One of his early roles was that of Kaiser Wilhelm II in Michael York's adventure film The Riddle of the Sands. One of his best-known roles was that of Hermann Dietrich in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Among the characters he has voiced in video games is Kaiser Vlad in Battalion Wars. Kahler played the Prince of Tübingen in Stanley Kubrick's 1975 film, Barry Lyndon. In 2001, he played a Wehrmacht General in a television miniseries about World War II, Band of Brothers. 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. In 2017, he played a German Commander in the Warner Bros./DCEU film Wonder Woman.

Filmography

Film

Short films

• 2008 Haber as Erich Ludendorff
• 2010 Stasi Dog as the narrator
• 2012 Cold Warrior as Bochinsky
• 2016 Millefeuille as Hans-Peter (Opa)
• 2016 Rubicon as Dirk Van de Cleef
• 2020 Cognition as Dr. Zoger

Television

Video games

• 1998 Metal Gear Solid as Donald Anderson / Revolver Ocelot / Jim Houseman (German dub)
• 1999 Syphon Filter as Thomas Markinson (German dub)
• 2003 Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness as Grant Muller
• 2004 Half-Life 2 as Dr. Wallace Breen (German dub)
• 2005 Battalion Wars as Kaiser Vlad
• 2007 Battalion Wars 2 as Kaiser Vlad / Lord Ferrok
• 2008 The Club as Enemy Characters
• 2009 IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey as German Voice
• 2010 Kirby's Epic Yarn as The Narrator (German Version)
• 2011 Crysis 2 as Karl Ernst Rasch (German & English dub)
• 2013 Crysis 3 as Karl Ernst Rasch (German & English dub)
• 2013 Company of Heroes 2 as German Announcer
• 2015 Calvino Noir as Arno
• 2017 Raid: World War II as Dr. Maximillion Reihnhart
• 2018 Call of Cthulhu: The Official Video Game as Thomas Fuller
• 2019 Close to the Sun as Aubrey King

Thanks

• 2012 Raiding the Lost Ark: A Filmumentary (special thanks)

Soundtrack

• 2008 Inspector George Gently (performer: The Lambton Worm Song – Episode: "Bomber's Moon")

Radio

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.

References

External links

• Wolf Kahler at IMDb