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Wolfgang Petersen (I) More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

14 March 1941, Emden, Lower Saxony, Germany

Nickname

Wolfie

Spouse

Maria Borgel-Petersen	(1978 - present)
Ursula Sieg	(? - 1978) (divorced) 1 child

Trivia

Is fluent in English and German.

Received "Bayerischer Verdienstorden" (Bavaria's highest decoration) on 17 July 2003.

Broke into the entertainment industry in 1960 with the Hamburg Ernest Deutsch Theater as an assistant director.

Got to know his second wife during the shooting of Smog (1973) (TV), where she worked as a script girl.

Father of Daniel Petersen.

Attended the Film and Television Academy in Berlin (DFFB) from 1966 to 1970.

Was offered the chance to direct "The Sum of All Fears" (2002), but declined.

Personal Quotes

"Theaters are always going to be around, and doing fine. With computers and technology, we're becoming more and more secluded from each other. And the movie theater is one of the last places where we can still gather and experience something together. I don't think the desire for that magic will ever go away."

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