Highest rated movie: Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Lowest rated movie: 12 to the Moon (1960)
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Movies starring John Wengraf have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average score of 57%.
Judgment at Nuremberg - released in 1961 - is John Wengraf's highest rated movie, with a score of 80% based on 283 reviews.
The lowest rated film from John Wengraf is 12 to the Moon - released in 1960 - with a score of 23% based on 5 reviews.
Emigrating to England in 1933 as the Nazis began their rise to power, Wengraf appeared unbilled in a couple of films there, as well as in some of the first BBC live-television shows ever presented but his career began to languish. In late 1941, however, he had the good fortune of appearing on Broadway with Helen Hayes in "Candle in the Wind" and decided to stay. The following year he headed west and settled permanently in the Los Angeles area. A dark, cold-eyed, thin-lipped player with a precise, meticulous air about him, he found himself invariably playing the very characters he detested. Some of his more nefarious nasties surfaced in such films as the Humphrey Bogart classic Sahara (1943/I), as well as The Boy from Stalingrad (1943), U-Boat Prisoner (1944) and Till We Meet Again (1944). In postwar years, he was often spotted portraying ethnic professionals (scientists, doctors, professors, foreign royalty). Some of the more quality pictures he enhanced were Tomorrow Is Forever (1946); Count Von Papen in 5 Fingers (1952); and Ronchin in the Ethel Merman musical Call Me Madam (1953). Although Wengraf never made it to the very top of the Hollywood character ranks, he remained a throughly strong and reliable player. In the 1950s and 1960s he transferred his talents to TV, appearing on a number of dramatic showcases and on such popular programs as "The Untouchables" (1959), "Hawaiian Eye" (1959), "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." (1964) and "The Time Tunnel" (1966). His last few films included minor roles in the war-themed Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), Hitler (1962) and Ship of Fools (1965). He retired in 1966, and died in Santa Barbara, California, at age 77, on May 4, 1974.
John Wengraf has acted in films with Bess Flowers, Norbert Schiller, Virginia Christine and Colin Kenny.
John Wengraf has worked with these film directors: Stanley Kramer, Michael Curtiz, Fred Zinnemann and Lloyd Bacon.
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