Anton Diffring ( him. Anton Diffring ; 1916, Koblenz - 1989, Shatonёf-Gras) - German characteristic film and television actor. Role - German officers and aristocrats.
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 In the role of Baron Frankenstein in the film "The " (1958) | |
| Birth name | Alfred Pollak Alfred pollack |
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| Profession | actor |
| Career | 1940, 1950-1988 |
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Biography
Alfred Pollak (real name of the actor) was born on October 20, 1916 in the German city of Koblenz . His father, Solomon Pollak, was Jewish and owned a shop. Solomon managed not to fall under the Nazi repression and survive the war safely. Alfred's mother was called Berta, and she was a Christian. The younger sister is (1920 -?). On the eve of World War II, she emigrated to Britain, where she became a very successful sculptor.
Alfred studied acting in Berlin and Vienna, but did not complete his education, as he left Germany shortly before the outbreak of World War II. According to the most probable version, Diffring left Germany in 1936 to avoid persecution by the Nazi authorities for their homosexuality - this is stated in the audio commentary to the Silver Nemesis series (1988) of the Doctor Who series. According to a less probable version, Diffring left his homeland in 1939, having left for Canada, where he was interned in 1940. The latest version seems dubious, since in the same 1940, Diffring had already played his first role (without indication in the credits) in the cinema - it was the film , shot by the British film studio Ealing Studios .
In addition to Convoy, Diffring, in the same 1940, starred in another British filmstrip, Neutral Port (also without a caption), and this was the beginning of a ten-year break in his barely begun film career. Then, from 1950 and almost until the end of his life, Diffring was filmed regularly, for 38 years (1950-1988) he appeared in 136 films and TV shows, mainly produced in Great Britain, although there are films made in Germany, the USA, France, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia in his piggy bank. , Austria, Italy, Switzerland and other countries.
Anton Diffring died on May 20 ( according to the tombstone on May 19 ) of 1989 in his house in the town of Shatonoi Gras in south-eastern France [5] . There were no official statements about the cause of death. Find a Grave biographer Susan Edwards claims that the actor died of cancer, and actor opinion that AIDS was the cause of his colleague's death [6] .
Selected Filmography
Widescreen
- 1940 - / Convoy - officer U-boat (not indicated in the credits)
- 1950 - / State Secret - a police officer in the theater
- 1950 - / Highly Dangerous - officer at the station (not indicated in credits)
- 1951 - / Hotel Sahara - German soldier (no credits listed)
- 1951 - / Appointment with Venus - German soldier
- 1952 - / The Woman's Angle - peasant
- 1953 - Let Me Go / Never Let Me Go - hotel clerk (no credits in titles)
- 1953 - / The Red Beret - "Pole" Poleski
- 1953 - / Albert RN - Hauptmann Schultz
- 1954 - / Betrayed - Captain Von Stanger
- 1954 - The Sea Will Not Take Them / The Sea Shall Not Have Them - German pilot
- 1955 - Colditz / The Colditz Story - Hauptmann Fisher
- 1955 - / I Am a Camera - Fritz Wendel
- 1956 - / The Black Tent - a senior fascist officer
- 1956 - Reach for the Sky - shtsfeldfebel (not listed)
- 1957 - The / The Traitor - Josef Brezina
- 1959 - The Man Who Could Cheat Death - Dr. Georges Bonier
- 1960 - The Circus of Horrors / Circus of Horrors - Dr. Rossiter, aka Dr. Schuler, plastic surgeon
- 1964 - / Vorsicht Mister Dodd - Howard
- 1964 - / Lana - Königin der Amazonen - Professor Van Vries
- 1965 - Operation Crossbow / Operation Crossbow - German soldier (not listed in credits)
- 1965 -? / Schüsse im 3/4 Takt - burgher
- 1965 - / The Heroes of Telemark - Major Frick
- 1966 - The Blue Max - Major Holbach
- 1966 - 451 degrees Fahrenheit / Fahrenheit 451 - Fabian
- 1967 - / Counterpoint - Colonel Arndt
- 1968 - Where the Eagles Do Not Reach / Where Eagles Dare - Colonel Kramer
- 1969 - / Michael Kohlhaas - der Rebell - Elector Johann Friedrich the Magnanimous
- 1971 - / Zeppelin - Col. Hirsch
- 1971 - / L'iguana dalla lingua di fuoco - Ambassador Sobieski
- 1972 - The Day the Clown Cried / The Day the Clown Cried - Captain Kurt Runkel [7]
- 1973 - Devil's Seal 2 / Hexen - geschändet und zu Tode gequält - Balthazar von Ross, president of the witch court
- 1973 - / La morte negli occhi del gatto - Dr. Franz
- 1973 - Sutjeska - Generalloberst Alexander Löhr
- 1973 - Large caliber / Tony Arzenta (Big Guns) - Hans Grunwald (not listed in the credits)
- 1974 - The / Shatter - Hans Leber
- 1974 - The / The Beast Must Die - Paul
- 1974 - / Die Antwort kennt nur der Wind - John Kilwood
- 1975 - / Operation Daybreak - Reinhard Heydrich
- 1976 - / The Swiss Conspiracy - Franz Benninger
- 1976 - / Potato Fritz - Lt. Slade
- 1977 - / Vanessa - Major Kenneth Cooper
- 1977 - Portuguese nuns ' love letters / Liebesbriefe einer portugiesischen Nonne - old priest
- 1977 - Valentino / Valentino - Baron Long
- 1977 - / L'Imprécateur - Ronson
- 1977 - / Les Indiens sont encore loin - German teacher
- 1978 - / Das Einhorn - Blomih
- 1980 - / Tusk - John Morrison
- 1981 - Escape to Victory - commentator on a football match
- 1983 -? / Der Schnüffler - Col. Henderson
- 1983 - / SAS à San Salvador - Peter Reynolds
- 1985 - / Marie Ward - Zwischen Galgen und Glorie - Cardinal Millini
- 1986 - / Richard et Cosima (Wahnfried) - Franz Liszt
- 1986 - / Der Sommer des Samurai - Wintrich
- 1987 - / Les Prédateurs de la nuit (Los depredadores de la noche) - Dr. Moser
- 1988 - Anna / Anna - Der Film - Georges Mamoulie
Television
- 1956, 1958, 1959 - / Armchair Theater - different roles (in 3 episodes)
- 1958 - / Tales of Frankenstein - Baron Frankenstein
- 1959 - / The Invisible Man - Commissioner Gunzi (in episode 1)
- 1961 - / Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond - Wilhelm Gessler (in episode 1)
- 1963 - / Edgar Wallace Mysteries - Dr. Eric Leichner (in the episode " ")
- 1966 - / Dixon of Dock Green - Charles Mason (in episode 1)
- 1973 - / Tatort - Mensur (in episode 1)
- 1978 - / Plutonium - director Arnold
- 1979 - / Flambards - Mr. Dermot (in 5 episodes)
- 1980 - / Der Alte - Leo Steglitz (in episode 1)
- 1981, 1984, 1987 - Derrick - different roles (in 3 episodes)
- 1983 - The / The Winds of War - Joachim von Ribbentrop (in 4 episodes)
- 1984 - The / The Masks of Death - Count Udo von Felsek
- 1988 - Doctor Who / Doctor Who - Fascist De Flores (in the Silver Nemesis series - 3 episodes)
Notes
- 2 1 2 3 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 130586293 // General Regulatory Control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ 1 2 BNF ID : 2011 open data platform .
- ↑ 1 2 Internet Broadway Database - 2000.
- ↑ Internet Movie Database - 1990.
- ↑ Burt A. Folkart. Anton Diffring; German-Born Character Actor (English) on latimes.com , July 22, 1989
- ↑ Interview with Arthur Brauss (him) on the site of terrorverlag.de , January 27, 2002
- ↑ The film was shot, but did not come out