Anton Diffring

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 DareWhere Eagles Dare · 1968
Where Eagles Dare
7.51968
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 VictoryEscape to Victory · 1981
Escape to Victory
6.91981
MovieDramaWar
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 TelemarkThe Heroes of Telemark · 1965
The Heroes of Telemark
6.91965
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 451Fahrenheit 451 · 1966
Fahrenheit 451
7.11966
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…
The Man Who Could Cheat DeathThe Man Who Could Cheat Death · 1959
The Man Who Could Cheat Death
5.81959
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.
Operation CrossbowOperation Crossbow · 1965
Operation Crossbow
6.71965
MovieDramaWar
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 MaxThe Blue Max · 1966
The Blue Max
6.81966
MovieWarAction
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.
ValentinoValentino · 1977
Valentino
5.81977
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.

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InterpolInterpol · 1963
Interpol
6.01963
SeriesCrime

SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich