Wernher von Braun
Known for Acting · 20 credits
- Born
- 1912-03-22
- Died
- 1977-06-16
- Place of birth
- Wirsitz, Germany [now Wyrzysk, Poland]
- Also known as
- Werner Von Braun
Biography
Werner Von Braun was a rocket pioneer and became the world's leading rocket scientist. Starting his career as a Nazi SS officer in the 1930s, and leading the team that developed what became the V-2 rocket, over 3,000 of which were eventually launched at England and Belgium during the later years of WWII. Following the war, Von Braun and 1600 other Nazi scientists were relocated to the United States via Operation Paperclip. Von Braun went to work for the US Army building early ballistic missiles, but was eventually absorbed into NACA, which became NASA, and became the first Director of the Marshall Space Flight Center, whose primary task was development of the Saturn V heavy-lift rocket system which was used in the NASA manned moon landings in the late 60s-early 70s.
Known For
TV Shows (5)
Movies (15)
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
1995
as Self (archive footage)
Apollo: Missions to the Moon
2019
as Self - Rocket Scientist, NASA (archive footage)
Mars and Beyond
1957
as Himself
Dark Side of the Moon
2002
as Self (archive footage)
Sirius
2013
as Self (archive footage)
The Saturn V Story
2014
as Self (archive footage)
Man in Space
1955
as Self
Footprints on the Moon
1969
as Narrator
NASA, Nazis and the Space Race
2025
as Self
In Search of Ancient Astronauts
1973
Beyond Tomorrow
2022
as Himself
Man and the Moon
1955
as Self
The Giant Step - Apollo... ...Saturn
1966
The Challenge of Outer Space
1955
Moon Mission
1963
About Wernher von Braun
Werner Von Braun was a rocket pioneer and became the world's leading rocket scientist. Starting his career as a Nazi SS officer in the 1930s, and leading the team that developed what became the V-2 rocket, over 3,000 of which were eventually launched at England and Belgium during the later years of WWII. Following the war, Von Braun and 1600 other Nazi scientists were relocated to the United States via Operation Paperclip. Von Braun went to work for the US Army building early ballistic missiles, but was eventually absorbed into NACA, which bec… With 20 credits spanning from 1955 to 2025, Wernher von Braun has appeared in 15 films and 5 TV shows.
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Most Popular Wernher von Braun Movies
- Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie (1995) — as Self (archive footage)
- Apollo: Missions to the Moon (2019) — as Self - Rocket Scientist, NASA (archive footage)
- Mars and Beyond (1957) — as Himself
- Dark Side of the Moon (2002) — as Self (archive footage)
- Sirius (2013) — as Self (archive footage)
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