
Henning Gissel
Biography
Henning Gissel was a German actor known for his work in both German and international film and television productions. He was born and died in Berlin, Germany.
Known For & Full Filmography27 Titles

Drama Series - 1970, 16 episodes • as Mr. Danz
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

Drama Series - 1970, 16 episodes • as Aufsichtsbeamter
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

Drama Series - 1970, 16 episodes • as Plaat
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

Drama Series - 1974, 16 episodes • as Hinz
Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings.

Drama Series - 1981, 16 episodes • as Landvermesser
Each 30 minute episode is dedicated to a separate issue or theme and consists mainly of related short featurettes, which explain, explore and educate how things of everyday life and even complex systems work. It spans a wide variety of topics from technology and industry to something as mundane as how the postal service works.

Drama Series - 1995, 16 episodes • as Dr. Geiger
The exciting stories about the cheeky chimpanzee Charly, who finds a new home with a Berlin vet family.

Drama Series - 1984, 16 episodes • as Paul Körbel
Der Fahnder is a German television krimi series which was aired between 1984 and 2005. In the Netherlands the series was broadcast by the VARA from 3 October 1985.

Drama Series - 1984, 16 episodes • as Bork
Berliner Weiße mit Schuß is a German television series.

Drama Series - 1987, 16 episodes • as Musiker
Hals über Kopf is a German television series.

Movie - 1987, 2h 15m • as Sgt. Fallaster
The true story of WWII's notorious Sobibor Nazi death camp, where a courageous inmate orchestrates and leads the escape of over 300 prisoners.

Drama Series - 1977, 16 episodes • as Gaganoff, Jr.
In the mid-1870s, landowner Varvara Stavrogina and Professor Stepan Verkhovensky are the center of society. Stavrogina's son Nikolai and Verkhovensky's son Pyotr are staying in Geneva. There, Nikolai becomes engaged to the lovely Lisa Tushina. However, he is already to be married to another.

Movie - 1987, 2h 15m • as Hermann
A married couple adopts a child. The mother's relationship with the new family member quickly deteriorates.

Drama Series - 1994, 16 episodes • as Apotheker Krause
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

Drama Series - 1982, 16 episodes • as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Unterwegs nach Atlantis is an Austrian-German-Swiss-Czechoslovakian science fiction television series from 1981.

Movie - 1980, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A story about forbidden love between student Misa and German girl Ana.

Movie - 1985, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
1944. Lucien, a fighter in the Free French Forces, is taken prisoner by the Germans. He is sent to a prison camp and then becomes a pianist in a palace.

Movie - 2004, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Saniye is offered a career advancement by her boss as a wedding present. But instead of being happy, the previously modern young woman suddenly feels the need to become a mother. Her fiancé Tom is not enthusiastic about Saniye's reproductive instinct. The two of them suddenly embark on a fatal journey into the all-promising, passionless world of fertility medicine, with their relationship falling by the wayside.

Movie - 1989, 2h 15m • as Man at Warehouse Office
Attorney Henry Strauss grew up in Germany, but left the country with his Jewish family during the rise of the Third Reich. Still wondering about what happened to his boyhood friend Konradin Von Lohenburg, Strauss travels back to Germany for the first time since he was a young man, bringing up some painful memories.

Drama Series - 1987, 16 episodes • as Ernst-Ludwig von Gerlach
Prussia is on the brink of national bankruptcy. King Frederick William III unexpectedly appoints the tax official Christian Rother as President of the Royal Prussian Maritime Trade.

Drama Series - 1972, 16 episodes • as Lüders
Shortly before the outbreak of World War II: Leopold Trepper, a colonel in the Red Army, travels to Belgium under a false name and sets up a spy ring there. Together with his employees Viktor Sukulow-Gurewitsch, Johann Wenzel, Hillel Katz and Michail Makarow, he succeeds in establishing a spy network throughout Belgium and France in a very short time. With the help of his cover companies - a chain of raincoat shops and later the import-export company Simexco ”- Trepper can collect information from the economy and the Wehrmacht, about Atlantic Wall construction sites and railway lines, and send it to Moscow. The agents also get help from patriots who want to free their countries from the occupation by the Germans.

Movie - 1969, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Short by Hans Sachs.

Movie - 1990, 2h 15m • as Tonmeister
A run-down former radio producer persuades two quarrelsome 1950s stars to try their comeback on nationwide television...

Movie - 1976, 2h 15m • as Addi
The painter Edgar flees from Wittenberg to East Berlin. The rebel finds a shelter in a gazebo. On the loo, Edgar discovers a strange reading: "The Sorrows of Young Werther" by Goethe.

Movie - 1972, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
The unemployed machinist Alfred "Scheff" Schefczyk moves from Württemberg to West Berlin full of hope, where he finds a job as a transporter. There, however, he despairs at the seemingly insurmountable dependency structures and the lack of solidarity among his fellow sufferers. The rent in the workers' hostel is raised disproportionately, but nobody wants to mess things up with the landlord or janitor. At work, piecework hours are tightened, but nobody wants to go on strike, and when they do, they are quickly crushed by the management's tactics. When Scheff tries to mobilize against the dismissal of one of the delegates, he finds only one worker willing to sign. "Dear mother, I'm fine," he nevertheless writes on a postcard.

Movie - 1975, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Anna and Edith are colleagues at an insurance company. Their male chef uses the women's business success to his own advances. Anna's husband would prefer her to be at home. Anna and Edith become a couple, but it doesn't end with a romantic rendez-vous. Together, and with the help of their female colleagues, they want to improve their work conditions.

Movie - 1981, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Young folks from different groups of early 80s subcultures (Punks, Rockers, Poppers) are heading for Wannsee, a local recreation area in West Berlin, where they are getting in conflict with middle-class-citizens. The movie is a collection of short sketches leading to a crazy pursuit and a lunatic struggle of nearly everybody against nearly everybody.
