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Anton Diffring
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Actor Born: October 20, 1918 in Koblenz, Germany Death: May 26, 1989 in Chateauneuf-de-Grasse France Biography:It was a strange twist of fate that many male German actors who fled their native country to escape Hitler, were subsequently cast in "Nazi" roles in British and American films. Such an actor was Anton Diffring, who emigrated to Canada in 1939, where he revitalized his stage career. After theatrical work in America, Diffring settled in Germany, where his film assignments were usually limited to cold-hearted German military officers--or, at the very least, untrustworthy gentlemen of vaguely European extraction. His films include "I Am a Camera" (the 1953 prototype for "Cabaret"), "The Sea Shall Not Have Them" (1955), "Fahrenheit 451" (1966), "Where Eagles Dare" (1969), "Zeppelin" (1977) and "Victory" (1981). As late as his final film, 1988's "Les Predateurs De La Nuit", Diffring was portraying unregenerated advocates of the Third Reich. On television, Anton Diffring played Dr. Frankenstein in a 1958... Full Biography
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