{{Short description|German actor}} {{Infobox person | image = | image_size = | name = Heinz Weiss | birth_date = 12 June 1921 | birth_place = Stuttgart, Germany | death_date = 20 November 2010 (aged 89) | death_place = Grünwald, Germany | other_names = | occupation = Actor | years_active = 1958–1999 }}

'''Heinz Weiss''' (12 June 1921{{spaced ndash}}20 November 2010<ref>[https://www.welt.de/newsticker/dpa_nt/infoline_nt/schlaglichter_nt/article11192636/ZDF-Traumschiff-Kapitaen-Weiss-gestorben.html ZDF-"Traumschiff"-Kapitän Weiss gestorben], welt.de</ref>) was a German film actor.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/122677 |title=BFI &#124; Film & TV Database &#124; WEISS, Heinz |access-date=2010-09-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110814012502/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/122677 |archive-date=2011-08-14 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Weiss is best known for playing the role of Phil Decker in the Jerry Cotton series of films and the role of Captain Heinz Hansen in ''Das Traumschiff''. He also played the character "Kramer" in the iconic World War II film ''The Great Escape'' (1963). He himself had served in German military, the ''Wehrmacht'', during World War II.

He died on 20 November 2010 in Grünwald near Munich.<ref>[http://www.bunte.de/society/heinz-weiss-der-traumschiff-kapitaen-ist-gestorben_aid_21430.html Der „Traumschiff“-Kapitän ist gestorben], bunte.de</ref>

==Filmography== ===Film=== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes |- |1958|| ''{{Interlanguage link|Wenn die Conny mit dem Peter|de}}'' || Schmidt - gymnastics teacher || |- |1960|| ''{{Interlanguage link|Strafbataillon 999|fr|3=Bataillon 999|lt=Strafbataillon 999}}'' || Lieutenant Obermeier || |- |1960|| ''Brandenburg Division'' || Dörner || |- |1960|| ''Big Request Concert'' || Stefan || |- |1961|| ''The Green Archer'' || John Bellamy / John Wood / The Green Bowman || |- |1961|| ''Only the Wind'' || Jack Johnston || |- |1961|| ''Blind Justice'' || prosecutor || |- |1961|| ''Auf Wiedersehen'' || Steve O'Hara || |- |1963|| ''The Great Escape'' || Kramer || |- |1965|| ''Tread Softly'' || rowspan= "8"|Phil Decker || |- |1965|| ''Mordnacht in Manhattan'' || |- |1966|| ''The Trap Snaps Shut at Midnight'' || |- |1966|| ''Die Rechnung – eiskalt serviert'' || |- |1967|| ''Murderers Club of Brooklyn'' || |- |1968|| ''Death and Diamonds'' || |- |1968|| ''Death in the Red Jaguar'' || |- |1969|| ''Dead Body on Broadway'' || |- |1970|| ''Immer bei Vollmond'' || Commissar Mallet || |- |1975|| ''{{ill|Die Brücke von Zupanja|de}}'' || Surgeon Major || |- |1981|| ''{{Interlanguage link|Confused Feelings (film)|fr|3=La Confusion des sentiments (téléfilm)|lt=Confused Feelings}}'' || M. Keller || |- |1982|| ''The Roaring Forties'' || Joss || |- |1982|| ''Doctor Faustus'' || Jonathan Leverkühn || |- |1984|| ''The Little Drummer Girl'' || Red Cross || |- |1985|| ''Le transfuge'' || || |}

===Television=== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes |- |1959|| ''As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me'' || Clemens Forell || TV miniseries |- |1964|| ''{{Interlanguage link|Flug in Gefahr|de}}'' || Pilot || |- |1968|| ''Sir Roger Casement'' || Roger Casement || |- |1971–1973|| ''{{Interlanguage link|Graf Luckner|de|3=Graf Luckner (Fernsehserie)|lt=Graf Luckner}}'' || Capitain Luckner || 39 episodes |- |1978|| ''{{Interlanguage link|Wallenstein (miniseries)|de|3=Wallenstein (1978)|lt=Wallenstein}}'' || Zierotin || TV miniseries |- |1981|| ''Berlin Tunnel 21'' || Heppner || |- |1983–1999|| ''Das Traumschiff'' || Captain Heinz Hansen || 25 episodes<br>(final appearance) |}

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==External links== * {{IMDb name|0919010}}

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