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Wolfgang Petersen (1941-2022) was a German film director, producer and screenwriter. Petersen earned two Oscar® nominations during his career. He received a Best Director and Best Writing Oscar® nomination for his acclaimed Das Boat (1981). His IMDb page shows 35 directing credits from 1965 to 2016. This page will rank Wolfgang Petersen movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. To do well in the rankings, a movie needed to do well at the box office, be liked by both critics and audiences and earn some award recognition.
Wolfgang Petersen Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
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I have seen 3 Wolfgang Peterson movies.
Das Boot is a favourite. I have also seen The Perfect storm and The Neverending Story. RIP
Hey Flora. Thanks for the feedback on the late Mr. Petersen. I have seen all three of the ones you have seen. Das Boat is well done….but it is not a movie that calls me to re-watch it. Maybe it was done too well….and leaving that horror in the sub scares me. As for The Perfect Storm…great cast but not a happy ending. As for The Neverending Story….I have not seen that one in years..might be worth a re-watch. Rest in Peace Wolfgang Petersen.
Sad news. My top 3 movies. Das Boot, In the Line of Fire, The NeverEnding Story
Hey Rubeylover…thanks for you Top 3. Right there with you on In The Line of Fire. Good stuff!
Wolfgang leaves behind an actual net worth of $20 million according to Celeb Net Worth site. RIP. I’ve seen 6 of his movies:
Air Force One
In the Line of Fire
Troy
Outbreak
Shattered
The Neverending Story
My faves are 1/In the Line of Fire 2/Outbreak. However I have seen Neverending Story the most – in fact many – times.
The reason for that is that in their very early years both my son and my grandson were obsessed with the movie and as I ‘babysat’ them numerous times as they watched it on video/DVD I became a “captive audience”.
For them the hero of the film Atreyu [played by top-billed star Noel Hathaway] earned the adulation that the likes of Willis, Micklewhite, Leach and Hirschhorn enjoy from our own Work Horse today.
I am a great personal admirer though of the character-actor work of Gerald McRaney whom The Work Horse mentions in his co-stars column and I have seen Gerard many times on TV. Troy was the movie that made me an admirer of Brad Pitt a status that he consolidated for me with Once Upon a Time In Hollywood.
Of the fantasy figures in Neverending Story the favourite of both my son & grandson was “The Creature who lived in the Darkness”. They have outgrown him now of course though I sometimes toy with the idea of introducing them to his kindred spirit by allowing them to read a 1983 book called Rating the Movie Stars.
The catchy theme song from the movie has long been one of my favourites pieces of music:
Turn around
Look at what you see
In her face
The mirror of your dreams
Make believe I’m everywhere
I’m hidden in the lines
Written on the pages
Is the answer to a never-ending story
Hey Bob…thanks for checking out our Wolfgang Petersen tribute page. Tally count 10 for Dan, 9 for me and 6 for you. That is a great memory of you and your son and grandson and The Never Ending Story. Introducing them to the world of Joel could be big….lol. Thanks for sharing information on Gerald McRane, Petersen’s net worth, your Pitt love and the music you like so much. Good stuff as always. Rest in peace Mr. Petersen.
HI BRUCE: Thanks for your appreciative feedback on my Petersen post. I actually watched a movie with my grandson Jamie again this afternoon -Indianna Jones and the Crystal Skull from 2008 only this time Jamie is 16 and not the five-year-old with whom I used to watch Neverending Story. Sill: I think he remains a bit too young yet for Hirsch to be let loose on him – Joel’s only for the stout-hearted and even at that one who is a masochist !
Glad you saw Never Let Go so you’ll now appreciate the significance of running Johnny Comes Marching home over the credits. I wonder if you had been watching that film at the time of the 1980 presidential election would you have had the courage to criticise Todd’s performance!!!
You should though if you have not already seen it try to catch Richard and Ronnie Reagan in 1949’s The Hasty Heart. It and Wing Commander Guy Gibson in 1955 ‘sThe Dam Busters are probably Richard’s two most famous roles at least here in the United Kingdom though he did play the title role in Walt Disney’s 1952 Robin Hood and His Merrie Men and he was one of the ensemble cast headed by The Duke, Mitchum etc in the 1962 The Longest Day. Todd was massive in Britain in the 1950s but never made it big worldwide to the extent that the likes of Connery, Micklewhite and Guinness did.
Talking about Sir Maurice he got an important mention in a historical analysis of Brexit [ie the United Kingdom leaving the European Union] that I was reading this morning. As you know Steve and I both voted to leave – and so did Sir Maurice.
According to the hitstorian concerned Sir M’s 1968 The Italina Job foreshadowed in certain ways the Brexit project that emerged almost half a century later in that if you had been “in the know” about the political aspects of Bexit you would have seen how some of the dialogue and several of the other references chimbed with the attitudes and thoughts of people who ultimately voted for Brexit.
I hever realised it at the time but when the historian mentioned them they did ring a bell with me. It therefore fits that Sir M should have done that movie: stars usually make films that are consistent with their own political and social adeology – The Duke tended to play “hawkish” characters as in Jet Pilot and the Green Berets whereas Hank Fonda and Gregory Dano specialised in “bleeding-heart liberals” like those in respectively 12 Angry Men and To Kill a Mockingbird.
Anyway good to hear from you aand as a rule of thumb ignore one half of what I say and refuse to take the other half seriously!
I have seen 10 of Wolfgang’s films; I haven’t seen #’s 11 & 12,
Rest in Peace Wolfgang Petersen. I have seen 9 of his movies. Saw three of them in theaters. Own four of them on DVD. Favorites would include In The Line of Fire, Air Force One and Outbreak. Das Boat is a good movie, but not one of my favorites. Sad news of his passing.