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Jul 22, 1989 · July 22, 1989 12 AM PT. Times Staff Writer. Anton Diffring, a German-born actor who portrayed a series of villainous characters that moviegoers loved to hate in more than 50 films and a like...
Circus of Horrors: Directed by Sidney Hayers. With Anton Diffring, Erika Remberg, Yvonne Monlaur, Donald Pleasence. Dr. Rossiter, a plastic surgeon wanted by the police, flees to France and under an assumed name acquires, by murder, a run-down circus. His first recruit is a woman criminal.
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...
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...
Known For. Fahrenheit 451. Circus of Horrors. Where Eagles Dare. The Man Who Could Cheat Death. The Heroes of Telemark. Escape to Victory. The Blue Max. The Beast Must Die. Acting. All. Department. Anton Diffring (born Alfred Pollack; October 20, 1918 – May 20, 1989) was a German actor.
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/German officers in World War II -set productions and similar villainous roles. Film roles: Reach for the Sky (1956) as German Stabsfeldwebel.
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.
