Oskar Werner

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Oskar Werner as Guy Montag and Cyril Cusack as The Captain, both in black uniforms and helmets, burn books in a scene from the 1966 film Fahrenheit 451.

Oskar Werner and Jeanne Moreau in Jules et Jim

Oskar Werner

Austrian actor

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Fahrenheit 451
…town, Guy Montag (played by Oskar Werner) works as a fireman but with an ironic twist: his job is to create bonfires of books, which have been banned. Montag is content with his life until several encounters lead him to hide books himself and, eventually, become a fugitive from the…
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…town, Guy Montag (played by Oskar Werner) works as a fireman but with an ironic twist: his job is to create bonfires of books, which have been banned. Montag is content with his life until several encounters lead him to hide books himself and, eventually, become a fugitive from the…
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Jules and Jim
Jules (played by Oskar Werner) and his best friend Jim (Henri Serre) are hopelessly smitten with Catherine (Jeanne Moreau), a free-spirited, beautiful young woman who prides herself on defying society’s idea of conventional behaviour. Although she marries Jules, over the years their love affair expands to include Jim…
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Jules (played by Oskar Werner) and his best friend Jim (Henri Serre) are hopelessly smitten with Catherine (Jeanne Moreau), a free-spirited, beautiful young woman who prides herself on defying society’s idea of conventional behaviour. Although she marries Jules, over the years their love affair expands to include Jim…
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The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
…is debriefed by Fiedler (Oskar Werner), who works for, but despises, Mundt. Leamas hints to Fiedler that Mundt might have been a double agent who accepted bribes from MI6. Mundt is arrested by East German security forces and put on trial. Fiedler presents evidence against the spymaster, but Perry…
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…is debriefed by Fiedler (Oskar Werner), who works for, but despises, Mundt. Leamas hints to Fiedler that Mundt might have been a double agent who accepted bribes from MI6. Mundt is arrested by East German security forces and put on trial. Fiedler presents evidence against the spymaster, but Perry…
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