Wernher von Braun
Birthday
1912/03/22
Day of death
1977/06/16 (65 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Wirsitz, Germany [now Wyrzysk, Poland]
Also know 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,...Read more
Acting
(1995) Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
as Self (archive footage)
(1957) Mars and Beyond
as Himself
(2022) Beyond Tomorrow
as Himself
(2002) Dark Side of the Moon
as Self (archive footage)
(2019) Apollo: Missions to the Moon
as Self - Rocket Scientist, NASA (archive footage)
(1955) Man and the Moon
as Self
(1969) Footprints On The Moon
as Narrator
(1973) In Search of Ancient Astronauts
as ---
(2014) The Saturn V Story
as Self (archive footage)
(2013) Sirius
as Self (archive footage)
(2025) NASA, Nazis and the Space Race
as Self
(1955) Man in Space
as Self
(2008) Moon Machines
as Self
(1968) The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
(2020) History 101
as Self (archive footage)
(1958) Small World
as Self