Gunnar Möller

Gunnar Möller (1 July 1928 – 16 May 2017) was a German television and film actor. He appeared in over 160 film and television productions between 1940 and 2016. He was most successful as a leading man in German cinema of the 1950s, especially with his role in I Often Think of Piroschka (1955) with Liselotte Pulver. He later turned to character roles and worked for a number of years in England, including the supporting role of Hans van Broecken in World War II drama series Secret Army .
He was married to the actress Brigitte Rau until her death in 1979, when he killed her during an argument in London. He was sentenced to five years in prison in England, but served only two and was able to continue his career in Germany.
In 2003, he married actress Christiane Hammacher, with whom he had performed in "Loriots Dramatische Werke" ("Loriot's Dramatic Works") at Frankfurt's Fritz Rémond Theater and on tour during the 1980s.
Möller died on 16 May 2017 in his hometown Berlin, aged 88.
Selected filmography
Our Miss Doctor (1940) - Ernst Schultze, Sextaner
Kopf hoch, Johannes! (1941) - Wilhelm Panse
Immer nur Du (1941) - Blumenjunge
Her Other Self (1941) - Boy
Sein Sohn (1942) - Willi, Herberts Sohn
Between Heaven and Earth (1942)
Meine Freundin Josefine (1942) - Bote
Der Seniorchef (1942) - Willy, Stalljunge
Floh im Ohr (1943) - Jungknecht Willi
Circus Renz (1943) - Willi, Bäckerjunge
Fritze Bollmann wollte angeln (1943) - Orje
Meine vier Jungens (1944) - Ulf Mertens
Junge Adler (1944) - Spatz
The Degenhardts (1944)
Ein Blick zurück (1944) - Botenjunge Max
The Green Salon (1944) - Jörgeli
The Noltenius Brothers (1945) - Jürgen Noltenius, Sohn
Leb' wohl, Christina (1945) - Schüler Kälble
Wozzeck (1947) - Student
Thank You, I'm Fine (1948) - Günther Holk
Heimliches Rendezvous (1949) - Fritzchen
Where the Trains Go (1949) - Gustav Dussmann
Ich mach dich glücklich (1949) - Franz
After the Rain Comes Sunshine (1949) - Polizist Otto
Hans im Glück (1949)
Five Suspects (1950) - Ole Klimm
Gabriela (1950) - Peter Hoyer
Abundance of Life (1950) - Felix Engler, Student
The Man Who Wanted to Live Twice (1950)
Die Jungen vom Kranichsee (1950) - Schulhelfer Heider
Taxi-Kitty (1950) - Boy Fritz
A Heidelberg Romance (1951) - William Edwards jr
The Imaginary Invalid (1952) - Peter
A Thousand Red Roses Bloom (1952) - Himpemax
Until We Meet Again (1952) - Pamelas Freund
Holiday From Myself (1952) - Michael Matz, genannt Thomas
Marriage for One Night (1953) - Putzi
Salto Mortale (1953) - Kurt
Dutch Girl (1953) - Jan
The Dancing Heart (1953) - Viktor
Wedding Bells (1954) - Klaus Eckhoff
Love and Trumpets (1954) - Nikolaus von Laffen
The Seven Dresses of Katrin (1954) - Hans, der Flieger
A House Full of Love (1954) - Lutz
Hoheit lassen bitten (1954) - Leutenant von Wörth
Son Without a Home (1955) - Berthold Müller
I Often Think of Piroschka (1955) - Andreas
Rosmarie kommt aus Wildwest (1956) - Willy Sanders
My Brother Joshua (1956) - Christoph Wiesner
Was die Schwalbe sang (1956) - Peter Hansen
Das Donkosakenlied (1956) - Dr. Heinz Stark
The Tour Guide of Lisbon (1956) - Sebastian, Art Painter
The Winemaker of Langenlois (1957) - Jörg Strasser, Volksschullehrer
Wie schön, daß es dich gibt (1957) - Dr. Hubert Hinz
The Daring Swimmer (1957) - Dr. Richard Moebius
At Green Cockatoo by Night (1957) - Knut Peters, Medizinstudent
Ist Mama nicht fabelhaft? (1958) - Axel Meinrad
Thirteen Old Donkeys (1958) - Walter
Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever? (1959) - Leutnant Fuhrmann
SOS Pacific (1959) - Krauss
Darkness Fell on Gotenhafen (1960) - Kurt Reiser
Bombs on Monte Carlo (1960) - Burg
The True Jacob (1960) - Jimmy
Drei weiße Birken (1961) - Maler Fritz Mauschner
Season in Salzburg (1961) - Dr. Erich Elz
Freddy and the Song of the South Pacific (1962) - Hein
The Post Has Gone (1962) - Franz
Zwei blaue Vergissmeinnicht (1963) - Ronny
Erotikon - Karussell der Leidenschaften (1963) - Der Freund
Apartmentzauber (1963) - Thomas Butterfield jr.
If You Go Swimming in Tenerife (1964) - Jens
The Girl from the Islands (1964) - Jochen
Liselotte of the Palatinate (1966) - Herzog von Kurland
Eine große Familie (1970, TV Movie) - Dr. Durst
Days of Betrayal (1973) - Adolf Hitler
The Odessa File (1974) - Karl Braun
The Liberation of Prague (1977) - Adolf Hitler
(1983, TV Movie) - Journalist Kaiser
Die Nacht der vier Monde (1984) - Peter
Der Geschichtenerzähler (1989) - Kommissar
(2005) - Edmund
(2015) - Ralf Kromberger
The Confessions (2016) - (final film role)
References
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1928 births
2017 deaths
German male film actors
German male television actors
Male actors from Berlin
20th-century German male actors
21st-century German male actors