Norbert Weisser
Norbert Weisser (born July 9, 1946) is a German-born American film and theatre actor, probably most known for his many roles in Albert Pyun-directed movies (15 and counting). Weisser is a founding member of the Odyssey Theater and the Padua Hills Playwrights Festival, where he developed the role of Trickster in Murray Mednick's epic seven-hour The Coyote Cycle. He has played roles in theaters throughout Europe and the US, including Broadway, where he played Rode opposite Ed Harris in Ronald Harwood's Taking Sides at the Brooks Atkinson Theater. Most recently he played Oskar in John O'Keefe's Times Like These in San Francisco, Albany, New York and Los Angeles, where he received an Ovation Award, an LA Weekly Theater Award and an LA Drama Critics Circle nomination for his performance. Weisser has directed plays at the Magic Theater in San Francisco and at the Mark Taper Forum's New Playwrights Festival in Los Angeles. Recently he produced two Albert Pyun films, Infection and Cool Air. He is the father of fellow actor Morgan Weisser, who starred in both movies. Weisser's television credits include: Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight, Riders of the Purple Sage, My Antonia, From the Earth to the Moon, Alias, The Agency, NCIS, ER, and Ghost Whisperer.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 6.31 |
Birthday | 1946-07-09 |
Place of Birth | Neu-Isenburg, Germany |
Also Known As |
1993
Schindler's List
8.566/15941
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during...
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Schindler's List
1993
Hocus Pocus
7/3019
After 300 years of slumber, three sister witches are accidentally resurrected in Salem on Halloween night, and it is up to three kids and their newfou...
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Hocus Pocus
1986
¡Three Amigos!
6.3/988
A trio of unemployed silent film actors are mistaken for real heroes by a small Mexican village in search of someone to stop a malevolent bandit.
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¡Three Amigos!
2009
Angels & Demons
6.718/6781
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is recruited by the Vatican to investigate the apparent return of the Illuminati - a secret, underground organizati...
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Angels & Demons
1990
Captain America
4.5/413
During World War II, a brave, patriotic American Soldier undergoes experiments to become a new supersoldier, "Captain America". Racing to Germany to s...
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Captain America
1996
Nemesis 4: Death Angel
3.534/29
Alex shoots again. She has to kill a man, but shoots the wrong one. A high ransom is set on her, so she is visited by some head hunters. Well, she onl...
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Nemesis 4: Death Angel
2005
Infection
3.9/16
A meteor carrying an unknown infection, lands outside a Small Californian community, bringing terror and death. Just after midnight, a local rancher n...
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Infection
2004
Around the Bend
5.9/50
A tale of four generations of men, all of whom have had their offspring at a young age: a great-grandfather, a grandfather, a father in his twenties a...
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Around the Bend
1992
Chaplin
7.437/1079
An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealth and comedic fame from poverty, his turbulent per...
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Chaplin
1982
Android
5.3/50
Eccentric scientist Dr. Daniel and his shy assistant Max lead a quiet life on their space station, carrying out illegal research on androids, until th...
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Android
1986
Radioactive Dreams
5.194/36
After an atomic war Phillip Hammer and Marlowe Chandler have spent 15 years on their own in an bunker, stuffed with junk from the 40s and old detectiv...
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Radioactive Dreams
1996
Omega Doom
4.5/59
After earth is taken over by an army of robots, the small number of humans left are forced into hiding. In the nuclear winter, only droids walk the fa...
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Omega Doom
1996
Adrenalin: Fear the Rush
4.703/69
In a not-too-distant future, a lethal virus sweeps across Europe, prompting the creation of quarantine refugee camps in the United States. Police offi...
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1987
Down Twisted
4/8
A naive, good-hearted Los Angeles waitress does not think twice about helping her troubled roommate. Unfortunately, her help lands her in Central Amer...
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Down Twisted
1996
Nemesis 3: Time Lapse
3.417/24
In this wasteland of despair the path to redemption is not clear. But Alex – a mutant created with super human DNA – carries the seed of hope for all...
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Nemesis 3: Time Lapse
2006
Cool Air
4.8/13
Charlie Baxter, a struggling screenwriter, is searching for accommodation in a rundown mansion somewhere in the isolated mountains above Malibu. An ex...
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Cool Air
1978
Keefer
0/0
An U.S. Army colonel leads a crack group of secret agents operating behind enemy lines in occupied France during World War II.
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Keefer
1987
Sweet Lies
4.8/3
An insurance investigator is visiting Paris on assignment. He is soon made the object of a seduction bet amongst three ladies. Problems arise when the...
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Sweet Lies
1995
Heatseeker
5.227/11
A kickboxing champion is forced to fight cyborgs in a tournament when the company kidnaps his fiancee.
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Heatseeker
2020
She's In Portland
5.8/8
Two college friends, now in their thirties, admire each others' lives and feel trapped in their own. Wes, tied to a demanding career and responsibilit...
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She's In Portland
1996
Riders of the Purple Sage
5.8/6
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Riders of the Purple Sage
1997
Crazy Six
4.6/18
In a crumbling Europe, powerful mafia families have emerged from the anarchy to vie for control of the lucrative arms trade.
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Crazy Six
1991
Seeds of Tragedy
6.7/3
Coca leaves making their way from Peru to Downtown Los Angeles.
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Seeds of Tragedy
1991
Keeping Secrets
4/1
Based on Suzanne Somer's autobiography, the film tells of her troubled childhood, her affairs, her abortion and her arrest for writing bad cheques and...
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Keeping Secrets
1983
Twilight Zone: The Movie
6.461/718
An anthology film presenting remakes of three episodes from the "Twilight Zone" TV series—"Kick the Can", "It's a Good Life" and "Nightmare at 20,000...
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Twilight Zone: The Movie
1989
The Radicals
0/0
The story of the Anabaptist movement and two of its first leaders, Michael and Margaretha Sattler.
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The Radicals
1998
Sorcerers
0/0
Sorcerers is an unfinished animated fantasy film that would have combined live actors with CG backgrounds and characters in a story inspired by The Th...
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1992
Deceit
5.2/5
Two outer-space aliens visit Earth with the intention of blowing it up, but they meet a hot blonde and decide to postpone the planet's destruction in...
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Deceit
1991
The Rocketeer
6.5/934
A stunt pilot comes across a prototype jetpack that gives him the ability to fly. However, evil forces of the world also want this jetpack at any cost...
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The Rocketeer
1989
The Secret of the Ice Cave
0/0
A group of treasure-seekers embark on a expedition into high adventure as they race to discover what's really located in the mysterious ice cave.
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The Secret of the Ice Cave
1997
Blast
3.975/20
Terrorists attempt to disrupt the Atlanta Olympics by kidnapping the U.S. women's swim team. If their demands are not met, the team will be executed....
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Blast
1987
Walker
6.318/74
William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d'etat.
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Walker
2023
Albert Pyun: King of Cult Movies
0/0
Albert Pyun: King of Cult Movies tells the story of a true renegade and his love for filmmaking, a free spirit who always did Hollywood his way despit...
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Albert Pyun: King of Cult Movies
1985
Stark
3/2
Wichita policeman, Evan Stark, goes to Las Vegas in search of his missing sister, Laura.
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Stark
1992
In the Line of Duty: Siege at Marion
4/2
Adam Swapp and his brother Jonathan are suspects in the bombing of Mormon Center in Utah. The brothers and their families hold-up on their farm with p...
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In the Line of Duty: Siege at Marion
2003
Bad Bizness
3.5/6
After three women get killed, a policewoman gets involved in the underworld of drugs and pornographic movies, when she starts investigating the case.
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Bad Bizness
1990
Midnight Cabaret
1.5/2
A Broadway producer puts on a play with a Devil character in it. Soon the actors begin having nightmares, and events that are mentioned in the play re...
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Midnight Cabaret
2000
Pollock
6.676/312
In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United Sta...
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Pollock
1995
The Killers Within
0/0
A man must track down the reasons behind his brother's mysterious death, and uncovers a secret neo-Nazi group headed by a powerful congressman.
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1990
The Incident
6.6/11
Small town lawyer, Harmon Cobb, defends a Nazi prisoner of war against murder charges. Set during World War II, Cobb has to contend with the difficult...
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The Incident
1979
Beggarman, Thief
6/1
In this sequel to "Rich Man, Poor Man," moviemaker Gretchen Jordache, the until-now unseen sister, strives to pull the family together after the murde...
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Beggarman, Thief
1993
Arcade
4.7/40
Alex Manning and her friends decide to visit the local video arcade known as "Dante's Inferno" where a new virtual reality arcade game called "Arcade"...
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Arcade
1982
The Thing
8.1/7015
In the winter of 1982, a twelve-man research team at a remote Antarctic research station discovers an alien buried in the snow for over 100,000 years....
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1994
The Road to Wellville
5.565/168
An unhappy young couple visit the infamous Kellogg spa in Battle Creek, Michigan while a young hustler tries get into the breakfast-cereal business an...
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The Road to Wellville
1978
Midnight Express
7.497/1701
Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 y...
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Midnight Express
1995
My Antonia
7.3/3
After the death of his parents, Jimmy uproots his life to live with his grandparents in Black Hawk, Nebraska.
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My Antonia
1989
From Hollywood to Deadwood
0/0
When actress Lana Dark (Barbara Schock) disappears in the middle of a film shoot, putting an expensive stop to production, the studio hires gumshoes R...
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From Hollywood to Deadwood
2001
Ticker
3.6/114
Ray Nettles, a detective of San Francisco, and his partner Fuzzy must take up to one of the most dangerous terrorist gangs of the city. When one of th...
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Ticker
1994
Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight
6.2/4
In 1928, Amelia Earhart gains fame by undertaking a transatlantic flight as a passenger. In 1937, she and her navigator Fred Noonan undertake her long...
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Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight
1977
The Deadly Triangle
6/1
A former Olympic ski champion, now the sheriff of a ski-resort town, investigates the murder of the member of a skiing team that came to the resort to...
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