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3 | Anton Diffring (born Alfred Pollack, 20 October 1916 - 19 May 1989) was a German character actor. |
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5 | He appeared in over 50 productions, many of them British, and was [[{{Typecasting}} typically cast]] as Nazis/German officers in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII-set productions and similar villainous roles. |
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7 | !!Film roles: |
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9 | * ''Film/ReachForTheSky'' (1956) as German ''Stabsfeldwebel'' |
10 | * ''Film/TheManWhoCouldCheatDeath'' (1959) as Dr. Georges Bonnet |
11 | * ''Film/CircusOfHorrors'' (1960) as Dr. Schuler |
12 | * ''Film/OperationCrossbow'' (1965) as SS ''Sturmbannfuhrer'' |
13 | * ''Film/TheBlueMax'' (1966) as Holbach |
14 | * ''Literature/Fahrenheit451'' (1966) as Fabian |
15 | * ''Film/WhereEaglesDare'' (1968) as Col. Paul Kramer |
16 | * ''Film/{{Zeppelin}}'' (1971) as Col. Hirsch |
17 | * ''Film/TheDayTheClownCried'' (1972, unreleased) as Capt. Curt Runkel |
18 | * ''Film/MarkOfTheDevil Part II'' (1973) as Balthasar von Ross |
19 | * ''Film/TheBeastMustDie'' (1974) as Pavel |
20 | * ''Film/OperationDaybreak'' (1975) as UsefulNotes/ReinhardHeydrich |
21 | * ''Film/{{Faceless}}'' (1988) as Dr. Karl Heinz Moser |
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23 | !!Television roles: |
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25 | * ''Series/{{Thriller}}'' (1974) as Jonathan Lanceford |
26 | * ''Series/{{Derrick}}'' (1981, 1984, 1987) as Alfred Bandera / Scherer / de Mohl |
27 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'': "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E3SilverNemesis Silver Nemesis]]" (1988) as De Flores |
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29 | !!This actor provides examples of the following tropes: |
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31 | * IronyAsSheIsCast: Although Diffring played Nazis in many film and TV productions, he was actually gay and Jewish, which caused him to flee UsefulNotes/NaziGermany in 1938 in order to escape persecution. |
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