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==Personal life== In 1944, while serving in the ''Wehrmacht'', Werner secretly married actress Elisabeth Kallina, who was half [[Jews|Jewish]].<ref name=spiegel/> The couple had a daughter, Eleanore. They divorced in 1952. In 1954, he married Anne Power, the daughter of French actress [[Annabella (actress)|Annabella]] and adopted daughter of [[Tyrone Power]].<ref name=Bio/> They were divorced in 1968. From 1965 to 1969, Werner was in a relationship with Diana Bennett Wanger, daughter of actress [[Joan Bennett]], and they had one son, Felix Florian Werner, born 1966. Werner was an [[alcoholism|alcoholic]], which contributed heavily to the decline of his health and career.<ref name="nyt">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/24/obituaries/oskar-werner-actor-dies-acclaimed-for-ship-of-fools.html|title=Oskar Werner, Actor, Dies; Acclaimed for 'Ship of Fools'|work=The New York Times|date=24 October 1984|first=Albin|last=Krebs|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305170422/http://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/24/obituaries/oskar-werner-actor-dies-acclaimed-for-ship-of-fools.html|archive-date=5 March 2016}}</ref> He was cast in [[Stanley Kubrick]]'s ''[[Barry Lyndon]]'' as Captain Potzdorf, then replaced after a week, due to his drinking, by [[Hardy Krüger]]. On 22 October 1984, he cancelled a reading at the Hotel Europäischer Hof in [[Marburg|Marburg an der Lahn, Germany]], feeling ill. He was found dead of a [[myocardial infarction|heart attack]] the following morning, at 61. He is buried in [[Liechtenstein]].<ref name=Bio/>
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