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Anton Diffring

Highest Rated: 100% The Blue Max (1966)

Lowest Rated: 43% The Beast Must Die (1974)

Birthday: Oct 20, 1918

Birthplace: Koblenz, Germany

Anton Diffring was a German-born actor whose classical features and imperious demeanor garnered him numerous roles as a Nazi military officer, landing him parts in war dramas throughout the 1950s, '60s, and '70s. Born in 1918, Diffring fled Nazi Germany in 1936, settling first in Canada and later, after WWII, in the United States and Britain. Despite obvious allegiances to the Allied forces during wartime, Diffring, when he began his acting career in the '50s, was immediately typecast as a villainous Nazi officer, appearing as a haughty military taskmaster in such classic films as "The Blue Max" (1966), "Where Eagles Dare" (1968), and "Operation: Daybreak" (1975). Diffring attempted to break away from obvious villain roles, with stints in TV and stage acting, but the lure of film work proved too great. In 1966, Diffring starred opposite Austrian actor Oskar Werner in François Truffaut's "Fahrenheit 451," a role that proved his mettle as more than just a character actor. With his career winding down in the '80s, Diffring took on an increasing number of TV roles including, most notably, the part of Adolf Hitler's foreign minister on the 1983 mini-series "The Winds of War." Diffring died on May 20, 1989, in his home in the south of France.

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Highest-Rated Movies

100% 76% The Blue Max
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84% 89% Where Eagles Dare
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81% 72% Fahrenheit 451
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72% The Colditz Story
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60% 34% The Man Who Could Cheat Death
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43% 37% The Beast Must Die
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Hitler's Son
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Island Rescue
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11% Mark of the Devil, Part II
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Montana Trap
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Filmography

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S.A.S. San Salvador 1984 Actor Sherlock Holmes and the Masks of Death 45% 1984 Graf Udo Von Felseck Actor Der Schnüffler 1983 Col. Henderson Actor Hitler's Son 1978 Gernheim Actor The Swiss Conspiracy 29% 1976 Franz Benninger Actor Vanessa 33% 1976 Cooper Actor Montana Trap 1976 Lieutnant Slade Actor Price of Freedom 1976 Reinhard Heydrich Actor Call Him Mr. Shatter 1976 Hans Leber Actor Operation Daybreak 76% 1975 Reinhard Heydrich Actor Kiss Me and Die 1974 Jonathan Lanceford Actor The Beast Must Die 43% 37% 1974 Pavel Actor Shatter 25% 1974 Hans Leber Actor The Savage Curse 1974 Jonathan Lanceford Actor Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eyes 1973 Dr. Franz Actor Mark of the Devil, Part II 11% 1973 Balthasar von Ross Actor La morte negli occhi del gatto (Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye) 30% 1973 Actor Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street 54% 1972 Mensur Actor Little Mother 20% 1972 The Cardinal Actor The Stuff That Dreams Are Made of 1972 CIA-Mann Simpson Actor No Way Out 62% 1972 Hans Grunwald Actor Immoral Mistress 1972 The Cardinal Actor Zeppelin 48% 1971 Colonel Hirsch Actor Where Eagles Dare 84% 89% 1969 SS-Standartenführer Kramer Actor Michael Kohlhaas 1969 Kurfürst Actor
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