Anton Diffring
- Birthday
- Oct 20, 1918
Bio: It was a strange twist of fate that many male German actors who fled their native country to escape Hitler, were subsequently cast in "Nazi" roles in British and American films. Such an actor was Anton Diffring, who emigrated to Canada in 1939, where he revitalized his stage career. After theatrical work in America, Diffring settled in Germany, where his film… More Bio: It was a strange twist of fate that many male German actors who fled their native country to escape Hitler, were subsequently cast in "Nazi" roles in British and American films. Such an actor was Anton Diffring, who emigrated to Canada in 1939, where he revitalized his stage career. After theatrical work in America, Diffring settled in Germany, where his film assignments were usually limited to cold-hearted German military officers--or, at the very least, untrustworthy gentlemen of vaguely European extraction. His films include I Am a Camera (the 1953 prototype for Cabaret), The Sea Shall Not Have Them (1955), Fahrenheit 451 (1966), Where Eagles Dare (1969) and Victory (1981). As late as his final film, 1988's Les Predateurs De La Nuit, Diffring was portraying unregenerated advocates of the Third Reich. On television, Anton Diffring played Dr. Frankenstein in a 1958 Hammer Studios pilot film based on the Mary Shelley novel, and was seen as "The Inspector" on the European-lensed Robert Conrad weekly series Assignment Vienna (1972-73). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Michael Kohlhaas (2013)
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Potato Fritz (Montana Trap) (2011)
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Tatort - Nie wieder frei sein (2010)
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Faceless (Los Depredadores de la Noche) (Les Prédateurs de la Nuit) (1989)
- Karl Heinz Moser
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Doctor Who - Silver Nemesis: The Extended Version (1988)
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Anton Diffring Videos
Where Eagles Dare
2 minutes 51 seconds
Fahrenheit 451
2 minutes 10 seconds
Victory
8 seconds
The Swiss Conspiracy
1 minutes 15 seconds
Call Him Mr. Shatter
29 seconds
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