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Anton Diffring (born Alfred Pollack; 20 October 1916 – 19 May 1989) [1] was a German actor. He had an extensive film and television career in the United Kingdom from the 1940s to the 1980s, latterly appearing in international films. Primarily a character actor, he often played Nazi officers in World War II films, and other antagonistic ...
Jul 22, 1989 · 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 number of TV shows, is dead, it was learned Friday.
Anton Diffring. Actor: Where Eagles Dare. Anton Diffring was a character actor who worked continuously in motion pictures due to his aristocratic face and cool, clipped diction, making him ideal for typecasting in British and later American motion pictures as Nazis and other vile, despicable characters. What was ironic about his typecasting as a Nazi is that Diffring, born in Koblenz, Germany ...
- October 20, 1916
- May 19, 1989
Find a Grave Memorial ID: 8613634. Source citation. Character Actor. After studying acting in Berlin and Vienna, Anton Diffring headed to America via Canada to start his film career. World War II was declared and he was interned in Canada as a subversive. Released after the war, he continued to Hollywood but had little success.
- Landkreis Mayen-Koblenz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
- October 20, 1918
Anton Diffring died in his home at Châteauneuf-Grasse in southern France, on the 20th of May, 1989 and, while no official statement as to his cause of death was ever released, fellow German actor Arthur Brauss suggested, in a 2002 Terrorverlag interview, that he died from an AIDS related condition. However, in her biography of Diffring, author ...
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Anton Diffring also worked in several international films, including François Truffaut’s Fahrenheit 451 (1966). He died in his home at Châteauneuf-Grasse in southern France, in 1989 and, while no official statement as to his cause of death was ever released – fellow German actor Arthur Brauss suggested, in a 2002 interview, that he died ...
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.
