Acting

Anton Diffring

Born October 20, 1916 · Koblenz, Germany

Died May 20, 1989 · aged 72

Anton Diffring (born Alfred Pollack; October 20, 1918 – May 20, 1989) was a German actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Anton Diffring, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Where Eagles Dare

Where Eagles Dare · 1968

Where Eagles Dare

MovieAdventureWar

World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly impossible to breach. It's up to a group of skilled Allied soldiers to liberate the general before it's too late.

Escape to Victory

Escape to Victory · 1981

Escape to Victory

A group of POWs in a German prison camp during World War II play the German National Soccer Team in this powerful film depicting the role of prisoners during wartime.

The Heroes of Telemark

The Heroes of Telemark · 1965

The Heroes of Telemark

MovieActionDrama

Set in German-occupied Norway, resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist Rolf Pedersen in an effort to destroy the German heavy water production plant in rural Telemark.

Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451 · 1966

MovieDramaScience Fiction

In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers, known as “firemen,” to perform the necessary book burnings. Fireman Montag begins to question the morality of his vocation…

Operation Crossbow

Operation Crossbow · 1965

Operation Crossbow

Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant. The film alternates between German developments of the V-1 missile and V-2 rocket (with a German cast speaking their own language) and discovery by British Intelligence of the weapon.

The Blue Max

The Blue Max · 1966

A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambitiously to earn the medal offered for 20 kills.

Valentino

Valentino · 1977

MovieDramaHistory

The untimely death of silent screen star Rudolph Valentino prompts the many women in his past to reminisce about his troubled rise to superstardom.

Reach for the Sky

Reach for the Sky · 1956

Reach for the Sky

The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying accident to become a successful fighter pilot and wing leader during World War II.

Filmography

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Where Eagles Dare

Where Eagles Dare · 1968

Where Eagles Dare

MovieAdventureWar

World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly impossible to breach. It's up to a group of skilled Allied soldiers to liberate the general before it's too late.

Col. Kramer

Escape to Victory

Escape to Victory · 1981

Escape to Victory

A group of POWs in a German prison camp during World War II play the German National Soccer Team in this powerful film depicting the role of prisoners during wartime.

chief commentator

The Heroes of Telemark

The Heroes of Telemark · 1965

The Heroes of Telemark

MovieActionDrama

Set in German-occupied Norway, resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist Rolf Pedersen in an effort to destroy the German heavy water production plant in rural Telemark.

Major Frick

Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451 · 1966

MovieDramaScience Fiction

In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers, known as “firemen,” to perform the necessary book burnings. Fireman Montag begins to question the morality of his vocation…

Fabian / Headmistress

Operation Crossbow

Operation Crossbow · 1965

Operation Crossbow

Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant. The film alternates between German developments of the V-1 missile and V-2 rocket (with a German cast speaking their own language) and discovery by British Intelligence of the weapon.

SS Sturmbannfuhrer

The Blue Max

The Blue Max · 1966

A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambitiously to earn the medal offered for 20 kills.

Holbach

Valentino

Valentino · 1977

MovieDramaHistory

The untimely death of silent screen star Rudolph Valentino prompts the many women in his past to reminisce about his troubled rise to superstardom.

Baron Long

Reach for the Sky

Reach for the Sky · 1956

Reach for the Sky

The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying accident to become a successful fighter pilot and wing leader during World War II.

German Stabsfeldwebel

The Man Who Could Cheat Death

The Man Who Could Cheat Death · 1959

The Man Who Could Cheat Death

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

Dr. Bonner plans to live forever through periodic gland transplants from younger, healthier human victims. Bonner looks about 40; he's really 104 years old. But people are starting to get suspicious, and he may not make 200.

Dr. Georges Bonner

Tony Arzenta

Tony Arzenta · 1973

MovieActionCrime

A mob hitman wants to retire, but his bosses don't think that's a good idea. Complications - and many bloody shootouts - ensue.

Hans Grunwald (uncredited)

Borsalino and Co.

Borsalino and Co. · 1974

Borsalino and Co.

MovieCrimeThriller

Marseille. Heaps of flowers and funeral wreaths... "A man who no longer defends his colors is no longer a man."

German

Circus of Horrors

Circus of Horrors · 1960

Circus of Horrors

MovieHorrorCrime

A plastic surgeon and his nurse join a bizarre circus to escape from the police. Here he befriends deformed women and transforms them for his "Temple of Beauty". However, when they threaten to leave, they meet with mysterious accidents.

Dr. Schuler

Operation: Daybreak

Operation: Daybreak · 1975

Operation: Daybreak

Czechoslovakia, 1942. Three brave Czech patriots risk everything to rid their country of its brutal Nazi leader, SS-General Reinhard Heydrich.

Reinhard Heydrich

Vanessa

Vanessa · 1977

MovieDramaMystery

Following her parents' death, Vanessa was raised in a convent. Due to an inheritance, she travels to Hong Kong to learn that she inherited a chain of bordellos. Soon, Vanessa has trouble coping as she's thrust into her new world of carnal delights.

Major Kenneth Cooper

State Secret

State Secret · 1950

MovieThrillerDrama

While working in England, an American surgeon Dr. John Marlowe is invited to Vosnia (a fictitious East-European country) to receive an award and demonstrate his life-saving surgery. Unwittingly caught in the middle of a dangerous and corrupt series of political events, Marlowe then becomes the object of a shoot-to-kill, vicious pursuit. Fleeing, he seeks help from an English-speaking actress, Lisa Robinson, and the two attempt to escape across the treacherous mountains of Vosnia.

State Police Officer at Theater

S.A.S. San Salvador

S.A.S. San Salvador · 1983

S.A.S. San Salvador

Enrique Chacon kills Oscar Romero, a Catholic archbishop in San Salvador. The CIA calls a special agent, Malko Linge, a ruined prince who lives with an expensive woman - Countess Alexandra - to get rid of this nuisance of a man. He does, with many encounters with sweet girls, and macho villains.

Peter Reynolds

Never Let Me Go

Never Let Me Go · 1953

Never Let Me Go

MovieRomanceDrama

An American reporter falls in love with a Russian ballet dancer.

Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)

The Colditz Story

The Colditz Story · 1955

The Colditz Story

The Germans believed that no man could escape from Colditz Castle, set as it was in the heart of the Reich, 400 miles from any neutral frontier. This film, based on Pat Reid's epic novel, tells the story of how the British, French, Dutch and Polish prisoners of war who were incarcerated in Colditz set out to prove their captors wrong.

Hauptmann Fischer

The Beast Must Die

The Beast Must Die · 1974

The Beast Must Die

MovieHorrorMystery

Wealthy big game hunter Tom Newcliffe has tracked and killed practically every type of animal in the world. But one creature still evades him, the biggest game of all - a werewolf.

Pavel

The Sea Shall Not Have Them

The Sea Shall Not Have Them · 1954

The Sea Shall Not Have Them

During the autumn of 1944, RAF Hudson, carrying a VIP passenger in possession of highly secret information, is shot down and ditches in the North Sea. Fighting the elements and trying to keep up morale, the occupants of the aircraft's dinghy talk about their lives awaiting the rescue they hope will come. The film's title reflects the motto of the RAF's Air Sea Rescue Service, one of whose high speed launches battles against its own mechanical problems, enemy action, time and the weather to locate and rescue the downed crew and the vital secret papers they carry.

German Pilot

The Masks of Death

The Masks of Death · 1984

The Masks of Death

MovieTV MovieMystery

Sherlock Holmes has retired. But when MacDonald asks him to take on another case, he says yes. There have been some mysterious murders, and there are no visible causes for the deaths. At the same time Holmes gets this case, Graf Udo Von Felseck gives him another case: find a young and missing prince to prevent war between Germany and England. But Von Felseck is not as honest as he seems...

Graf Udo Von Felseck

Counterpoint

Counterpoint · 1967

In December of 1944, Lionel Evans, an internationally renowned American conductor, is on a USO tour with his 70-piece symphony orchestra in newly-liberated Belgium. While fleeing from a German counterattack, Evans and his orchestra members are captured by a Panzer division and taken to an old chateau in Luxembourg. Despite orders to execute every prisoner, General Schiller, an avid music lover, commands Evans to give a private concert for him.

Col. Arndt

The Swiss Conspiracy

The Swiss Conspiracy · 1976

The Swiss Conspiracy

MovieDramaAction

A Swiss bank discovers some of its clients are becoming the victim of a brilliant blackmailer. The bank's president contacts David Christopher, a former agent with the U.S. Treasury, to help discover who the blackmailer is and to foil his plot. As Christopher delves into the mystery, he uncovers a complicated web of intrigue, car chases, and shoot-outs that takes all of his wits to unravel.

Franz Benninger

The Double Man

The Double Man · 1967

MovieMysteryThriller

In a complex piece of espionage the Russian secret service attempts to kidnap a high ranking officer in the CIA and replace him with a one of its own.

Col. Berthold

Scene of the Crime

Scene of the Crime · 1970

Scene of the Crime

SeriesDramaCrime

Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

Mensur

Doctor Who

Doctor Who · 1963

SeriesDramaAction & Adventure

The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.

De Flores

The Old Fox

The Old Fox · 1977

SeriesCrimeDrama

A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together.

Leo Steglitz

Derrick

Derrick · 1974

SeriesDramaCrime

Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings.

Herr de Mohl

BBC Play of the Month

BBC Play of the Month · 1965

BBC Play of the Month

A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.

Adolf Eichmann

Theatre 625

Theatre 625 · 1964

Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line format, which only BBC2 used at the time.

Count Wolf von Helldorf

One Step Beyond

One Step Beyond · 1959

One Step Beyond

SeriesMysteryDrama

Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond is an American anthology series that dramatized purportedly real-life supernatural and paranormal experiences. The series was hosted by John Newland and ran for three seasons on ABC from January 1959 to July 1961.

Wilhelm Hessler

The Commissioner

The Commissioner · 1969

The Commissioner

SeriesDramaCrime

Der Kommissar is a German television series about a group of detectives of the Munich homicide squad. All 97 episodes, which were shot in black-and-white and first broadcast between 1969 and 1976, were written by Herbert Reinecker and starred Erik Ode as Kommissar Herbert Keller. Keller's assistants were Walter Grabert, Robert Heines, and Harry Klein who, in 1974, was replaced by his younger brother Erwin Klein.

Roland Sauter

Thriller

Thriller · 1973

SeriesDramaCrime

Thriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is an anthology series: each episode has a self-contained story and its own cast. As the title suggests, each story is a thriller of some variety, from tales of the supernatural to down-to-earth whodunits.

Jonathan Lanceford

Dixon of Dock Green

Dixon of Dock Green · 1955

Dixon of Dock Green

Dixon of Dock Green was a BBC television series following the activities of police officers at a fictional Metropolitan Police station in the East End of London from 1955 to 1976. Some episodes were later remade as a BBC radio series in 2005 and 2006.

Charles Mason

Hancock's Half Hour

Hancock's Half Hour · 1956

Hancock's Half Hour

Hancock's Half Hour is a BBC television comedy series of the 1950s and 60s written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The series starred Tony Hancock with Sid James. The final series, renamed simply Hancock, starred Hancock alone. Comedian Tony Hancock starred in the show, playing an exaggerated and much poorer version of his own character and lifestyle, Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock, a down-at-heel comedian living at the dilapidated 23 Railway Cuttings in East Cheam. The series was influential in the development of the situation comedy, with its move away from radio variety towards a focus on character development.

The Winds of War

The Winds of War · 1983

The Winds of War

SeriesWar & PoliticsDrama

Against the backdrop of world events that led to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Victor 'Pug' Henry is a career naval officer who, along with his family, learns to navigate the waters of his dangerous times in the late 1930s.

Joachim von Ribbentrop

Wire Service

Wire Service · 1956

Wire Service is an American drama series that aired on ABC as part of its 1956-57 season lineup.

Joseph Tezlik

Colonel March of Scotland Yard

Colonel March of Scotland Yard · 1956

Colonel March of Scotland Yard

Colonel March of The Department of Queer Complaints investigates unusual cases, locked-room murders, and mysteries concerning the supernatural.

Francois

Flambards

Flambards · 1979

In early 20th-century England, young orphan Christina Parsons is sent to live with her Uncle Russell, who owns the country estate of Flambards, and has two sons. Mark, the elder, is a wastrel, a roue and, like his father, loves to hunt. The younger, William, lives to fly aeroplanes. Christina finds herself struggling with the ideas of classism as she falls in love with country life, the hunt, and one of her cousins. But after an impulsive marriage, when her husband is called away by the First World War, Christina must keep Flambards afloat by herself.

Mr Dermot

Armchair Theatre

Armchair Theatre · 1956

Armchair Theatre

Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television from mid-1968.

Cast Member

The Galton & Simpson Playhouse

The Galton & Simpson Playhouse · 1977

The Galton & Simpson Playhouse

A series of seven individual sitcom pilots from writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.

Heinz Steiner

Assignment: Vienna

Assignment: Vienna · 1972

Assignment: Vienna

SeriesDramaAction & Adventure

The story of Jake Webster, an American expatriate in Vienna who was the operator of Jake's Bar & Grill, an American-style establishment near the scenic heart of the city. In fact, the business was a cover for Jake's actual reason for being in Vienna. He was involved in tracking down various spies and international criminals at the behest of U.S. intelligence, which apparently held something against him which, if disclosed, would have resulted in his being deported from Austria and apparently then incarcerated in the United States. Jake's liaison with U.S. intelligence was a Major Caldwell.

Insp. Hoffman

Interpol

Interpol · 1963

SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich

Le Mutant

Le Mutant · 1978

SeriesSci-Fi & Fantasy

O'Brien