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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.

Context Creator / AntonDiffring