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Anton Diffring (born Alfred Pollack, 20 October 1916 - 19 May 1989) was a German character actor. He appeared in over 50 productions, many of them British, and was typically cast as Nazis and similar villainous roles.

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!! Film roles:

* ''Film/ReachForTheSky'' (1956) as German ''Stabsfeldwebel''
* ''Film/TheManWhoCouldCheatDeath'' (1959) as Dr. Georges Bonnet
* ''Film/CircusOfHorrors'' (1960) as Dr. Schuler
* ''Film/OperationCrossbow'' (1965) as SS ''Sturmbannfuhrer''
* ''Film/TheBlueMax'' (1966) as Holbach
* ''Film/Fahrenheit451'' (1966) as Fabian
* ''Film/WhereEaglesDare'' (1968) as Col. Paul Kramer
* ''Film/{{Zeppelin}}'' (1971) as Col. Hirsch
* ''Film/TheDayTheClownCried'' (1972, unreleased) as Capt. Curt Runkel
* ''Film/MarkOfTheDevil Part II'' (1973) as Balthasar von Ross
* ''Film/TheBeastMustDie'' (1974) as Pavel
* ''Film/OperationDaybreak'' (1975) as UsefulNotes/ReinhardHeydrich

!! Television roles:

* ''Series/{{Thriller}}'' (1974) as Jonathan Lanceford
* ''Series/{{Derrick}}'' (1981, 1984, 1987) as Alfred Bandera / Scherer / de Mohl
* ''Series/DoctorWho'' (1988) as De Flores

!! This actor provides examples of the following tropes:

* IronyAsSheIsCast: Although Diffring played Nazis in many film and TV productions, he was actually gay and Jewish, which caused him to flee Nazi Germany in 1938 in order to escape persecution.

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