Wolfgang Petersen

German filmmaker Wolfgang Petersen has died at the age of 81, his production company has confirmed.

My sincere condolences and love to his family." A natural leader via positive encouragement; dare I say, he was a spiritual channel for us, grounding truly big stories to move us all through heights and depths. "Wolfgang was a big, loving soul.

Heralded as an anti-war masterpiece, Das Boot was nominated for six Oscars.

“The power of water is unbelievable,” Petersen said in a 2009 interview. The big-budget Poseidon, a high-priced flop for Warner Bros, was Petersen’s last Hollywood film. After Outbreak – with Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo and Morgan Freeman – Petersen returned to the presidency in 1997’s Air Force One. The cast included George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg but its main attraction was a 100-foot computer-generated wave. We all lived for American movies, and by the time I was 11 I’d decided I wanted to be a filmmaker.” Look around — the corruption is everywhere, and there’s not much to celebrate.”

Wolfgang Petersen, the German filmmaker whose World War II submarine epic 'Das Boot' propelled him into a blockbuster Hollywood career, has died.

Das Boot led to Petersen’s first English-language film, The NeverEnding Story, a hit which launched him as a filmmaker in Hollywood, where he became one of the top makers of action adventures of disasters and massive cataclysms. Wolfgang Petersen, the German filmmaker whose World War II submarine epic Das Boot propelled him into a blockbuster Hollywood career that included the films In the Line of Fire, Air Force One and The Perfect Storm, has died at the age of 81. Heralded as an anti-war masterpiece, Das Boot was nominated for six Oscars, including for Petersen's direction and his adaptation of Lothar-Gunther Buchheim's best-selling 1973 novel.

Academy Award-nominated director Wolfgang Petersen who rose to prominence for his German-language film “Das Boot” has passed away aged 81.

Born in Emden, Germany, Petersen began his directing career in the 1960s and rose to limelight in 1981 with “Das Boot,” a film cenetered around World War II which earned six Oscar nominations in total, two of which went to Petersen for directing and screenwriting. Petersen during his time made several other action-thrillers including “Enemy Mine,” “Shattered,” “Outbreak,” “Poseidon” and “Troy,.” He also directed big-name stars such as Clint Eastwood in 1993’s “In the Line of Fire,” Harrison Ford in “Air Force One” (1997) and George Clooney in 2000’s “The Perfect Storm.” Petersen also worked with other A-list stars including Brad Pitt, Rene Russo, Glenn Close, Dustin Hoffman and Morgan Freeman. Academy Award-nominated director Wolfgang Petersen who rose to prominence for his German-language film “Das Boot” has passed away aged 81.

Petersen was particularly known for writing and directing the 1981 anti-war movie Das Boot, which won two Academy Awards. The movie starred German actor Jurgen ...

[Anadolu Agency website contains only a portion of the news stories offered to subscribers in the AA News Broadcasting System (HAS), and in summarized form. In Hollywood, he made eight films, including political thriller In the Line of Fire (1993), Outbreak; Air Force One (1997), The Perfect Storm (2000), and Troy (2004), giving five consecutive box office hits, the outlet detailed. His publicist Michelle Bega said the director died of pancreatic cancer at his home.

Tributes have been pouring in for the Oscar-nominated German director Wolfgang Petersen, who passed away at the age of 81. Petersen came to prominence as ...

"Wolfgang was a big, loving soul. "He didn’t waste anyone’s time. Petersen's most prolific decade as a director came in the 1990s, where he directed hit films such as 1993's 'In The Line Of Fire' starring Clint Eastwood, the 1995 pandemic thriller 'Outbreak', and the 1997 action movie classic 'Air Force One'.

“The Das Boot bloke dies” — there's a good chance that this will be the gist of many a Wolfgang Petersen obituary. It's understandable.

It was pancreatic cancer that would cause the credits to role on the life of Wolfgang Petersen. “It’s almost impossible to explain just how challenging it must have been for him to come out here after he made his masterpiece [Das Boot] and deal with the politics and the bullshit and the egos involved in big-time ’90s Hollywood action cinema. Pandemic drama Outbreak (1995), president-in-peril picture Air Force One (1997) and trouble at sea epic The Perfect Storm (2000) led studio executive Barry Isaacson to explain, “He was the perfect studio director of his era; technically proficient, a natural storyteller, able to accommodate the big stars and the big money without compromising his vision.” It’s really hard to explain just how big a deal Das Boot was in the 1980s. Indeed, three years would pass before he was again hired by a film studio, this time to make The Consequence, a controversial picture about a prison guard’s son, played by Ernst Hannawald, who falls in love with an inmate, again played by Prochnow. “The Das Boot bloke dies” — there’s a good chance that this will be the gist of many a Wolfgang Petersen obituary.