Peter Carsten

Actor, also producer · Died April 20, 2012, aged 83 · Weißenburg, Bavaria, Germany

Weißenburg, Bavaria, Germany-born Peter Carsten was an actor and producer, known for A Study in Terror (1965), 11 Uhr 20 (1970) and Thirteen Days to Die (1965). He died on April 20, 2012 in Lucija, Slovenia.

Biography from TMDB.

Born: April 30, 1928
Died: April 20, 2012 (aged 83)
From: Weißenburg, Bavaria, Germany
Works as: Actor, also producer
Titles: 19 on MovieCove · 95 credits in all
Links: IMDb (opens in a new tab)TMDB (opens in a new tab)Wikidata (opens in a new tab)

Known for

TMDB popularity, last 38 days to Oct 27Up 31% in 30 days

What are Peter Carsten's films like?

Across their 15 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Morality and Power.

Genres

Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.

Themes

share of theme weight

Morality

26%

Power

22%

Survival

19%

Self

18%

Bonds

14%

Society

Survival4 Identity3 Deception3 Freedom3 Betrayal2 Ambition2 Greed2 Justice2

What they feel like to watch

their average across 15 films

ToneFeelDemandtheir average · filled zone: the category

Earnest

Tone · Sincerity

ironicearnest

Ironic 1 · Wry 1 · Earnest 13

Serious

Tone · Weight

lightdark

A split, not a type: Light 7 · Serious 2 · Dark 6

Stylized

Tone · Style

naturalisticheightened

Grounded 5 · Stylized 7 · Heightened 3

Charged

Feel · Intensity

gentleintense

Gentle 4 · Charged 6 · Intense 5

Steady

Feel · Swings

steadyswings

Steady 10 · Shifting 4 · Whiplash 1

Some laughs

Feel · Humor

noneconstant

A split, not a type: Straight-faced 9 · Some laughs 2 · Funny 4

Even-paced

Demand · Pace

slowrelentless

Slow burn 6 · Even-paced 9 · Relentless 0

Engaged

Demand · Attention

casualfull focus

Casual 7 · Engaged 7 · Full focus 1

Affecting

Demand · Emotional cost

easyheavy

A split, not a type: Easy watch 6 · Affecting 5 · Heavy 4

Resolved

Demand · Resolution

resolvedambiguous

Resolved 12 · Open-ended 1 · Ambiguous 2

Roles they play

6 analyzed roles

Usually the Shadow: 3 of 6 analyzed roles.

Shadow

3 of 6

Ally

1 of 6

Threshold guardian

1 of 6

Trickster

1 of 6

Allyas Gefreiter Krämer in Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever? (1959)
Shadowas Henlein in Dark of the Sun (1968)
Threshold guardianas Kurt in Hannibal Brooks (1969)
Tricksteras Rudolf Boulanger in The Sins of Madame Bovary (1969)
Shadowas Acombar in And God Said to Cain... (1970)
Shadowas Dr. Carmus in Web of the Spider (1971)

Moods and endings

endings are an aggregate; no title is named

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Tense

Dread

Melancholic

Joyful

Cold

Other

How their films linger

Haunting6 Fun5 Thought-provoking4 Feel-good4 Unsettling4 Bittersweet3

How their films end · 1 with a twist

Happy5
Bittersweet2
Tragic5
Ambiguous3

AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.

Where can I watch Peter Carsten's films?

As of October 24, 2026, 7 of their 19 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (3).

Also on these channels

Midnight Pulp1 title, show their title on Midnight Pulp
ScreenPix1 title, show their title on ScreenPix

Subscription and free streaming for Peter Carsten's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.

Filmography

95 credits, 19 with a MovieCove page.

Making of: Das Geheimnis der schwarzen Koffer (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2005)
as (archive footage)
The Serbian Girl (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1991)
Actor
Ein Schloß am Wörthersee (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1990)
Show 1 episode · as Casinodirektor
The Donator (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1989)
as Major Ziegfried Handke
The File (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1986)
Show 4 episodes · Actor
...Erbin sein - dagegen sehr (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1985)
Show 12 episodes · as Schiffsagent Schröder
Run for the Sun (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1985)
Show 1 episode · as Hafenpolizist
Double Impact (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1985)
Actor
Variola Vera(1982)
as UN Epidemiologist
Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all films
Twilight Time(1982)
as Factory Gateman
Midcredits score: 36th percentile of all films
The Mulberry Tree (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1980)
as Švaba
Part-Time Work (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1980)
as Stranac u hotelu
Devil's Island (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1979)
as Zapovjednik njemačkog broda
The Squeeze (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1978)
as Van Stratten
Moment (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1978)
as Nemac iz Vrsca
SOKO München (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1978)
Show 1 episode · as Christ
Arrive Before Daybreak (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1978)
as Major Kramer
The Coach (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1978)
as Knez
The Old Fox (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1977)
Show 1 episode · as Bernd Wallusch
Das Gesetz des Clans (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1977)
as Harald Sommer
The Return (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1976)
Actor
Maiden Bridge (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1976)
as Horst Wagner
The Peaks of Zelengore (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1976)
as Oberst
Betty & Alexander (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1975)
Show 12 episodes · as Jim Sonntag
The Last Desperate Hours (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1974)
as Maraschi
Hell River (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1974)
as Colonel Henke
Where the Bullets Fly(1972)
as Tom Slattery
Midcredits score: 1st percentile of all films
Web of the Spider(1971)
as Dr. Carmus
Midcredits score: 28th percentile of all films
Zeppelin (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1971)
as Major Tauntler
Mr. Superinvisible(1970)
Producer
Midcredits score: 10th percentile of all films
Wenn du bei mir bist (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1970)
as Joe Falk
Black Lemons (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1970)
as Orlando Lo Presti
And God Said to Cain...(1970)
Producer · as Acombar
Midcredits score: 68th percentile of all films
11 Uhr 20 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1970)
Show 3 episodes · as Korska
The Lickerish Quartet(1970)
Producer
Midcredits score: 42nd percentile of all films
The Sins of Madame Bovary(1969)
as Rudolf Boulanger
Midcredits score: 19th percentile of all films
Stewardesses (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1969)
Show 1 episode · Actor
Hannibal Brooks(1969)
as Kurt
Midcredits score: 70th percentile of all films
The Commissioner (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1969)
Show 1 episode · as Georg Kapp
Dark of the Sun(1968)
as Henlein
Midcredits score: 76th percentile of all films
Heubodengeflüster (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1967)
as Florian Maderer
Der Tag, an dem die Kinder verschwanden (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1967)
as Constanco
Spy Pit (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1967)
as Günther
The Vengeance of Fu Manchu(1967)
as Kurt Heller
Midcredits score: 19th percentile of all films
Massacre in the Black Forest (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1967)
as Sigmund
My Name Is Pecos (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1966)
as Steve
Tender Scoundrel(1966)
as Kapitän Otto Hanz
Midcredits score: 29th percentile of all films
Polizeifunk ruft (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1966)
Show 1 episode · as Ernst Klein
The Quiller Memorandum(1966)
as Hengel
Midcredits score: 53rd percentile of all films
In the Shadow of the Eagles (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1966)
Actor
A Study in Terror(1965)
as Max Steiner
Midcredits score: 61st percentile of all films
Thirteen Days to Die (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1965)
as Hans Warren
Slim Callaghan greift ein (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1964)
Show 1 episode · as Jochen Lange
Am Sonntag gehört Vati uns (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1964)
Show 3 episodes · as Vati
Das Haus der Schlangen (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1964)
Show 1 episode · as Lieutenant Cooper
Scarlet Eye (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1963)
as Hermann
Wochentags immer (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1963)
as Kaiser
Barras Heute (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1963)
as Obergefreiter Blättchen
Commando (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1962)
as Barbarossa
The Secret of the Black Trunk (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1962)
as Ponko, ein Bettler
Diesmal muss es Kaviar sein(1961)
as Bastian
Midcredits score: 25th percentile of all films
Es muss nicht immer Kaviar sein(1961)
as Bastian
Midcredits score: 32nd percentile of all films
Girl from Hong Kong (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1961)
as Volkert
Fabrik der Offiziere (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1960)
as Hauptmann Katers
Wenn die Heide blüht (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1960)
as Klaus
Mal drunter – mal drüber (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1960)
as Benno Biller
Under Ten Flags(1960)
as Lieutenant Mohr
Midcredits score: 57th percentile of all films
Kriminaltango (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1960)
as Boxer-Franz
Freddy und die Melodie der Nacht (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1960)
as Karl Bachmann
Drillinge an Bord (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1959)
as Fred Larsen
As the Sea Rages (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1959)
as Panagos
The Songs of Your Home (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1959)
as Lastwagenfahrer August Klemke
Heiße Ware (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1959)
as Otto Faber
Freddy, die Gitarre und das Meer (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1959)
as Jan
Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever?(1959)
as Gefreiter Krämer
Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all films
Peter Voss, der Millionendieb (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1958)
as Willy
U47 - Kapitänleutnant Prien (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1958)
as Besatzungsmitglied
Scampolo (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1958)
as Cesare
The Wide Blue Road (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1957)
as Riva, 2nd Coast Guard Officer
The Devil Strikes at Night(1957)
as SS-Standartenführer Mollwitz
Midcredits score: 86th percentile of all films
Song of Naples (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1957)
as Ercole
Sand, Love and Salt (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1957)
as Alberto
Keiner stirbt leicht (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1956)
as Bob
Anastasia: the Czar's Last Daughter (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1956)
as Soldat Tschaikowski
Liebe (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1956)
as Jan Hopper
Nina (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1956)
as Major Tubaljow
Like Once Lili Marleen (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1956)
as Toni Knoll
Kirschen in Nachbars Garten (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1956)
as Briefträger
Weil du arm bist, mußt du früher sterben (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1956)
as Erich Klein
08/15 at Home (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1955)
as Stabsgefreiter Kowalski
Das fröhliche Dorf (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1955)
as Gerd Bunje, Müller
08/15 Part 2 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1955)
as Stabsgefreiter Kowalski
The Song of the Hohe Tauern (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1955)
as Bertl
The Beginning Was Sin (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1954)
as Marko
08/15 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1954)
as Stabsgefreiter Kowalski

Career shape

Star power in the 92^nd percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 94 titles from 1954 to 2005; peak year 1970.

Highest rated

Variola Vera (1982)

Midcredits 97^th

Film career

19542005

Peak 1970 · fewer prominent film roles lately. Top draw in 1 MovieCove title. Film roles by billing, audience size and rating; 25+ votes. A show carries a single first-air date, so shows are not on the curve.

1957Screen debut· The Devil Strikes at Night
1970Career best· And God Said to Cain

By role

only this rolewith another role

Acting93 of 94 · 53^rdProducing1 of 94

By decade

1950s26 · acting1960s34 · acting1970s22 · 21 acting · 1 crew1980s9 · acting1990s2 · acting2000s1 · acting

Billing

usually 6th · top billed in 0% of 12 roles

5767

Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored. Billing is TMDB cast order for roles with 25+ votes, billed in the top 30; the columns are the share of top-billed roles in each era, 5-year spans from the year on the label, merged until each holds at least 5 roles.

How do Peter Carsten's films land?

Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 42^nd percentile, the median of all 19; across their 15 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 45^th percentile for acclaim.

Acclaim · how much people like their films

45^thpercentile

Typical film, the median of 15

Approval · how many liked their films

41^stpercentile

Typical film, the median of 15

Reach · how many have seen their films

48^thpercentile

Typical film, the median of 15

Midcredits score across 19 titles, by percentile

75^th and up4
50^th to 74^th5
25^th to 49^th6
Below 25^th4

Shape of the crowd

8 of their 19 titles are Crowd Pleasers.

Universally Loved1
Universally Panned1
Crowd Pleaser8
Broadly Agreed1
Mixed8

Most divisive · producer

Mr. Superinvisible (1970)

72^nd percentile spread · 52% rated it 4 or lower

Most loved · actor

Variola Vera (1982)

Midcredits 97^th · 88% liked

Reviewers score the acting 62/100 in their films, across 14 reviewed titles; fans 74, detractors 37. The element that speaks to their work as an actor.

Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.