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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.
- January 1, 1
- Koblenz, Germany
- January 1, 1
- Châteauneuf-Grasse, Alpes-Maritimes, France
Some of his other roles as German characters were in The Heroes of Telemark (1965), The Blue Max (1966), Where Eagles Dare (1968), Zeppelin (1971), as SS officer Reinhard Heydrich in Operation Daybreak (1975) and the football match commentator in Escape to Victory (1981), although he also played a Polish parachutist in The Red Beret (1953).
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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.
- October 20, 1916
- May 19, 1989
Where Eagles Dare is a 1968 action adventure war thriller spy film directed by Brian G. Hutton and starring Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood and Mary Ure. It follows a Special Operations Executive team of men attempting to save a captured American General from the fictional Schloß Adler fortress, except the mission turns out not to be as it seems.
- $6.2 million–$7.7 million
- Ron Goodwin
- 4 December 1968
- Elliott Kastner, Jerry Gershwin
Maj. Wilhelm Wilner : [as Smith raises his sleve] There are two parallel scars, about three centimeters apart. SS-Standartenführer Kramer : [into the phone] The scars are there. Maj. Wilhelm Wilner : [into the phone] Ask how he get them.
