Norbert Weisser is a German-born American film and theatre actor, probably most known for his many roles in Albert Pyun

Albert Pyun

Albert Pyun is an American film director best known for having made many low-budget B-movies and direct-to-video action films. He frequently blends kickboxing and hybrid martial arts with science fiction and dystopic or post-apocalyptic themes, which often include cyborgs...

-directed films (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

Murray Mednick

Murray Mednick is an American playwright and poet. He's best known as founder of the Padua Hills Playwrights Workshop/Festival, where he served as artistic director from 1978 to 1995...

'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

Ed Harris

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 in Ronald Harwood

Ronald Harwood

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's Taking Sides

Taking Sides (play)

Taking Sides is a 1995 play by British playwright Ronald Harwood, about the post-War U.S. denazification investigation of the German conductor and composer Wilhelm Furtwängler on charges of having served the Nazi regime. Harwood drew inter alia on a detailed diary kept by Furtwängler of his...

 at the Brooks Atkinson Theater. Most recently he played Oskar in John O'Keefe

John O'Keefe (playwright)

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's Times Like These in San Francisco, Albany

Albany, New York

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, New York

New York

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 and Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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, where he received an Ovation Award, an LA Weekly Theater Award

LA Weekly Theater Award

LA Weekly Theater Award is an annual critics' award established in 1979, given by the LA Weekly for outstanding achievements in small theatre productions in Southern California...

 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

Albert Pyun

Albert Pyun is an American film director best known for having made many low-budget B-movies and direct-to-video action films. He frequently blends kickboxing and hybrid martial arts with science fiction and dystopic or post-apocalyptic themes, which often include cyborgs...

 films, Infection

Infection

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 and Cool Air

Cool Air

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. He is the father of fellow actor Morgan Weisser

Morgan Weisser

Morgan Weisser is an American actor and the son of German born actor Norbert Weisser.-Movie career:He is probably best known for his role as Lt...

, who starred in both movies.

Weisser's television credits include: Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight, Riders of the Purple Sage, My Antonia

My Antonia (film)

My Antonia is a 1995 film TV movie based on the novel of the same name written by Willa Cather. The movie was directed by Joseph Sargent and starred Jason Robards, Eva Marie Saint, and Neil Patrick Harris. It was filmed in part at the Stuhr Museum in Grand Island, Nebraska.-Cast:*Jason Robards ......

, From the Earth to the Moon, Alias

Alias (TV series)

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, The Agency, NCIS

NCIS (TV series)

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, ER

ER (TV series)

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, and Ghost Whisperer

Ghost Whisperer

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.

Selected filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1978	Midnight Express Midnight Express (film) Released on October 6, 1978, the soundtrack to Midnight Express was composed by Italian synth-pioneer Giorgio Moroder. The score won the Academy Award for Best Original Score of 1978.Side A:#Chase – Giorgio Moroder...	Erich
1982	Android Android (film) Android is a 1982 science fiction film directed by Aaron Lipstadt and starring Klaus Kinski. The film follows the story of a scientist and his assistant who are working on an illegal android program from their lab on a space station in orbit of the Earth....	Keller
1982		Norwegian
1983	Twilight Zone: The Movie Twilight Zone: The Movie Twilight Zone: The Movie is a 1983 science fiction horror film produced by Steven Spielberg and John Landis as a theatrical version of The Twilight Zone, a 1959 and '60s TV series created by Rod Serling. Those starring in the film are: Dan Aykroyd, Albert Brooks, Vic Morrow, Scatman Crothers,...	Soldier No. 1	(segment #1)
1986	Three Amigos	German's Friend
1987	Down Twisted Down Twisted Down Twisted is a 1987 thriller film, directed by Albert Pyun, Starring Carey Lowell, Charles Rocket, Courteney Cox, and Nicholas Guest.-Plot summary:A naive, good-hearted Los Angeles waitress does not think twice about helping her troubled roommate...	Alsandro Deltoid
1987	Walker Walker (film) Walker is a 1987 Acid Western film directed by Alex Cox. The film based on the life story of William Walker , the American filibuster who invaded Mexico in the 1850s and made himself President of Nicaragua shortly thereafter. It was written by Rudy Wurlitzer and scored by Joe Strummer, who also...	Prange
1989	Deceit Deceit (1989 film) Deceit is a 1989 minimalist science fiction film. The entire film was shot in three days. The plot follows aliens who decide to postpone their plans to destroy Earth until they are able to have sexual relations with some of the women on the planet....	Bailey / Farnsworth III
1990	Captain America Captain America Captain America is a fictional character, a superhero that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in Captain America Comics #1 , from Marvel Comics' 1940s predecessor, Timely Comics, and was created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby...	Alaskan surveyor
1991		Zeppelin Pilot
1992	Chaplin	German Diplomat
1993	Schindler's List Schindler's List Schindler's List is a 1993 American film about Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved the lives of more than a thousand mostly Polish-Jewish refugees during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories. The film was directed by Steven Spielberg, and based on the novel Schindler's Ark...	Albert Hujar
1993	Hocus Pocus	Thackery's Father
1994		Dr. Spitzvogel
1996	Adrenalin: Fear the Rush Adrenalin: Fear the Rush Adrenalin: Fear the Rush is a 1996 American science-fiction-action film directed by Albert Pyun, starring Christopher Lambert and Natasha Henstridge. It is set in an alternative future in 2007, where the Soviet Union has collapsed and Russia is in disarray...	Cuzo
1997	Omega Doom Omega Doom Omega Doom is a 1996 film by Albert Pyun, starring Rutger Hauer who plays a robot who, during a nuclear winter, plays both sides of a robot civil war against each other in a small town...	The Head
1998	From the Earth to the Moon	Dr. Werner von Braun	(mini-series)
2000	Pollock Pollock (film) Pollock is a 2000 biographical drama film which tells the life story of painter Jackson Pollock. It stars Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Robert Knott, Bud Cort, Molly Regan, Marcia Gay Harden and Sada Thompson.-Plot:...	Hans Namuth
2001	Ticker Ticker (2001 film) Ticker is a 2001 action film directed by Albert Pyun, starring Tom Sizemore, Dennis Hopper, Steven Seagal, Jaime Pressley, Nas and Ice-T.-Plot:...	Dugger
2004	Around the Bend Around the Bend Around the Bend is a 2004 road movie written and directed by Jordan Roberts. The film is inspired by the relationship between Roberts and the absentee father he barely knew.-Main cast:*Michael Caine – Henry Lair*Jonah Bobo – Zach Lair...	Walter

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