Mathias Wieman

Mathias Wieman
Studio publicity photo of Ingrid Bergman with Mathias Wieman in Fear, 1954
Born	23 June 1902 Osnabrück, Germany
Died	3 December 1969(1969-12-03) (aged 67) Zurich, Switzerland

Mathias Wieman (Carl Heinrich Franz Mathias Wieman) (23 June 1902 – 3 December 1969) was a German stage-performer, silent-and-sound motion picture actor.

Wieman was born in Osnabrück, the only son of Carl Philipp Anton Wieman and his wife Louise. Raised in Osnabrück, Wiesbaden and Berlin, where he studied four terms of philosophy, history of art and languages, Wieman wanted to actually become an airplane technical designer and flier. He started his acting career on the stage in Berlin under the direction of Max Reinhardt at the Deutsches Theater. In the early 1920s, he was a member of the Holtorf-Truppe, a stock theater group that included future director Veit Harlan. His fellow stage actors included his future wife, , Marlene Dietrich, Dora Gerson and Max Schreck (the vampire in Nosferatu). Later he began working in silent and sound films; he landed supporting roles in Assassination, Queen Louise and Land Without Women. In 1930, along with Leni Riefenstahl, he appeared in Storm over Mont Blanc, and in 1932 he played the lead in Riefenstahl's The Blue Light.

At the height of his film career, during the decade of the 1930s, Wieman acted in such productions as Man Without a Name, L'Atlantide, The Countess of Monte-Christo, Fräulein Hoffmanns Erzählungen, Der Schimmelreiter (), Viktoria, Patriots, and Togger.