Anton Diffring

Anton Diffring

Born: October 20, 1916
Died: May 20, 1989
in Koblenz, Germany
Anton Diffring (born Alfred Pollack; October 20, 1918 – May 20, 1989) was a German actor.

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Movies for Anton Diffring...

The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
Title: The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
Released: October 31, 2003
Type: Movie
Over one hour of black-and-white location footage and interviews with the stars and director, all staged outdoors in manifestly frigid conditions. Mann talks about his filmmaking philosophy and the challenges of shooting in such rugged locations, and shares his insights on the Douglas-Harris feud.
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Anna
Title: Anna
Character: George Mamoulian
Released: December 15, 1988
Type: Movie
This film is the theatrical follow-up to a very popular German TV-series (also called "Anna"), about a young girl who wants to make it as a prima ballerina.
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Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis
Title: Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis
Character: De Flores
Released: December 7, 1988
Type: Movie
The arrival of a mysterious comet heralds impending danger from enemies both old and new. As Ace helps the Doctor defend Earth, she is confronted with a dangerous question..."Doctor Who?"
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Faceless
Title: Faceless
Character: Dr. Karl Heinz Moser
Released: June 22, 1988
Type: Movie
A model named Barbara Hallen has disappeared and her father gets private detective Sam Morgan to go to Paris to find his daughter. Barbara's trail leads Morgan to a plastic surgery clinic owned by Dr. Flamand. Morgan's investigation reveals the horrifying secret behind the Doctor's miracle cures which is blood and organs taken from kidnapped young women. As Morgan's investigation closes witnesses are eliminated, one by one, each in a more horrible way.
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The Summer of the Samurai
Title: The Summer of the Samurai
Character: Wintrich
Released: June 19, 1986
Type: Movie
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Wahnfried
Title: Wahnfried
Character: Franz Listz
Released: April 16, 1986
Type: Movie
Wahnfried (German: Richard und Cosima, French: Richard et Cosima) is a 1986 West German-French drama film directed by Peter Patzak about the life of Richard Wagner. It was screened out of competition at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.
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Operation Dead End
Title: Operation Dead End
Character: Prof. Lang
Released: April 10, 1986
Type: Movie
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Horrible Horror
Title: Horrible Horror
Character: Baron Frankenstein in 'Tales of Frankenstein'
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
A collection of trailers and previews from various low-budget horror films of the '50s and '60s.
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Marie Ward - Zwischen Galgen und Glorie
Title: Marie Ward - Zwischen Galgen und Glorie
Character: Kardinal Millini
Released: May 2, 1985
Type: Movie
The story of Marie Ward, a religious woman from a devout, aristocratic Yorkshire Catholic family who lived between 1585 and 1645 and moved to St. Omer in Walloon France, where she joined the Order of St. Clare, later returning to England to found her own order and devote her life to helping others.
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The Masks of Death
Title: The Masks of Death
Character: Graf Udo Von Felseck
Released: December 23, 1984
Type: Movie
Sherlock Holmes has retired. But when MacDonald asks him to take on another case, he says yes. There have been some mysterious murders, and there are no visible causes for the deaths. At the same time Holmes gets this case, Graf Udo Von Felseck gives him another case: find a young and missing prince to prevent war between Germany and England. But Von Felseck is not as honest as he seems...
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Weltuntergang
Title: Weltuntergang
Released: July 1, 1984
Type: Movie
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Der Besuch
Title: Der Besuch
Character: Crazier
Released: March 18, 1984
Type: Movie
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S.A.S. San Salvador
Title: S.A.S. San Salvador
Character: Peter Reynolds
Released: February 25, 1983
Type: Movie
Enrique Chacon kills Oscar Romero, a Catholic archbishop in San Salvador. The CIA calls a special agent, Malko Linge, a ruined prince who lives with an expensive woman - Countess Alexandra - to get rid of this nuisance of a man. He does, with many encounters with sweet girls, and macho villains. (Written by Artemis-9, IMDb)
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Non Stop Trouble with Spies
Title: Non Stop Trouble with Spies
Character: Colonel Henderson
Released: February 18, 1983
Type: Movie
The harmless Berlin taxi driver Herbert Boeckmann has a bad day: Three mysterious gentlemen put the corpse of Boris Stravinsky, a Russian economist, into the car. Unsuspecting Herbert brings the "passenger" to East Berlin. There Boeckmann falls into the clutches of the KGB, who considers him a top agent of the CIA. As Herbert eventually returns to the western part of the city, the CIA waiting for him to be the taxi driver again suspected of being a top agent of the KGB. To prove his innocence, Herbert must find the real killer of Stravinsky. Herbert is given mysterious vials to which he sniffs in extreme situations, helping them not only to amazing powers and unsuspected abilities. As Super Agent "Herbie Melbourne" mixed Herbert on the agent scene. But between the lines he gets in the line of professional killer.
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Title: The Winds of War
Character: Joachim von Ribbentrop
Released: February 6, 1983
Type: TV
Set against the backdrop of world events that led to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Victor "Pug" Henry is a career naval officer who, along with his family, learns to navigate the waters of his dangerous times in the late 1930s.
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Escape to Victory
Title: Escape to Victory
Character: chief commentator
Released: June 17, 1981
Type: Movie
A group of POWs in a German prison camp during World War II play the German National Soccer Team in this powerful film depicting the role of prisoners during wartime.
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Tusk
Title: Tusk
Character: John Morrison
Released: March 1, 1980
Type: Movie
An English girl and an Indian elephant, born on the same day, share a common destiny...
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Der Durchdreher
Title: Der Durchdreher
Character: Glorias erster Mann
Released: March 8, 1979
Type: Movie
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Title: Flambards
Character: Mr. Dermot
Released: February 2, 1979
Type: TV
In the early 1900s in England, young Christina is orphaned and goes to live with her Uncle Russell, who owns the country estate of Flambards, and has two sons. Mark, the elder, is a wastrel, a roue and, like his father, loves to hunt. The younger son, William, lives to fly aeroplanes. Christina finds herself struggling with the ideas of classism as she falls in love with country life, the hunt, and one of her cousins. But after their impulsive marriage, when her husband is called away by the First World War, Christina must keep Flambards afloat by herself.
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Son of Hitler
Title: Son of Hitler
Character: Gernheim
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
The leader of a right-wing German political party discovers that an illiterate woodcarver is actually the son of Adolf Hitler.
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Das Einhorn
Title: Das Einhorn
Character: Blomich
Released: September 28, 1978
Type: Movie
A copywriter gets famous with his first book. When asked to write a new novel about love for his publisher, he urgently needs tutoring since he doesn't know the first thing about it. His way through the beds leads him to the very young Orli. In her he discovers the true meaning of love, which makes him forget all the wrong paths of the past decades and feel young again.
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Plutonium
Title: Plutonium
Character: Direktor Arnold
Released: June 25, 1978
Type: Movie
Camouflaged as a political suspense documentary, Plutonium demonstrates the theft of highly enriched nuclear material from a Third World Country nuclear power plant - enough for five bombs of the Hiroshima type. Is this material now in the hands of terrorists – or in the possession of a brutal and inhuman dictatorship?
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Title: Le Mutant
Character: O'Brien
Released: June 15, 1978
Type: TV
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Io sono mia
Title: Io sono mia
Character: Padre di Suna
Released: November 18, 1977
Type: Movie
Vannina and Giacinto are a young married couple who live their relationship in an unequal way; while the girl is submissive to the will of her husband Giacinto, he sees in his bride only the personal object of his sexual satisfaction.
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Waldrausch
Title: Waldrausch
Character: Fürst
Released: September 7, 1977
Type: Movie
In order to stop the annual flooding, a dam is to be built in the mountain valley; a life-threatening undertaking for the inhabitants.
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Valentino
Title: Valentino
Character: Baron Long
Released: September 7, 1977
Type: Movie
In 1926 the tragic and untimely death of a silent screen actor caused female moviegoers to riot in the streets and in some cases to commit suicide...
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Title: The Old Fox
Character: Leo Steglitz
Released: April 11, 1977
Type: TV
A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together.
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Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun
Title: Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun
Character: Old Priest
Released: March 10, 1977
Type: Movie
16-year-old Maria is forced into Serra D'Aires convent, secretly run by Satanists.
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Vanessa
Title: Vanessa
Character: Major Kenneth Cooper (as Anthony Diffring)
Released: October 11, 1976
Type: Movie
Olivia Pascal stars as Vanessa who was raised in a convent after the death of her parents. Due to an inheritance she travels to Hong Kong to find out the inheritance is a chain of bordellos. She soon has trouble coping with her inheritance as she is thrust into her new world of carnal delights. —Ørnås
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Montana Trap
Title: Montana Trap
Character: Lieutenant Slade
Released: May 5, 1976
Type: Movie
Potato Fritz (Hardy Kruger) and his friends have moved from Germany to the American Wild West, settling eventually in the Rockies. They are besieged by what appear to them to be hostile Native Americans. Before too long, it becomes clear that the hostiles are in fact a gang of gold thieves. This movie is notable among German-made Westerns for its use of authentic period costumes and firearms.
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The Swiss Conspiracy
Title: The Swiss Conspiracy
Character: Franz Benninger
Released: March 1, 1976
Type: Movie
A Swiss bank discovers some of its clients are becoming the victim of a brilliant blackmailer. The bank's president contacts David Christopher, a former agent with the U.S. Treasury, to help discover who the blackmailer is and to foil his plot. As Christopher delves into the mystery, he uncovers a complicated web of intrigue, car chases, and shoot-outs that takes all of his wits to unravel.
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Operation: Daybreak
Title: Operation: Daybreak
Character: Reinhard Heydrich
Released: November 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Czechoslovakia, 1942. Three brave Czech patriots risk everything to rid their country of its brutal Nazi leader, SS-General Reinhard Heydrich.
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Title: Kommissariat 9
Released: July 16, 1975
Type: TV
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Lehmanns Erzählungen
Title: Lehmanns Erzählungen
Character: Allan
Released: April 7, 1975
Type: Movie
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H.P. Lovecraft: Schatten aus der Zeit
Title: H.P. Lovecraft: Schatten aus der Zeit
Character: Professor Peterson
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Based on H.P. Lovecraft's The Shadow Out of Time, this is the story of a professor who suffers a seizure which results in total amnesia. As he recuperates he is so different his family deserts him. He gathers knowledge of things outside his specialty for five years, then has another seizure. When he reawakens he is himself again, but now he has no memory of the five years between the attacks. He begins having bizarre dreams, and tries to find out what he was doing during the five years he can't remember. What he discovers, combined with the growing reality of his dreams, convinces him that something much darker than a mere personality shift was going on.
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Shatter
Title: Shatter
Character: Hans Leber
Released: December 6, 1974
Type: Movie
Shatter, an international contract killer, has been assigned to assassinate the President of a small African country and collect his fee from a bank in the Far East. On arrival in Hong Kong his life is threatened and when the bank denies all knowledge of payment arrangements, he realises he has been drawn into a dangerous game where there are no rules. Amongst the players are the Mafia and several foreign intelligence services and the stakes being played for are deadly.
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Only the Wind Knows the Answer
Title: Only the Wind Knows the Answer
Character: John Keelwood
Released: November 20, 1974
Type: Movie
The yacht of millionaire Hellmann explodes in the Mediterranean Sea, with him and 8 men crew on board. Insurance agent Lucas investigates at the Cote D'Azur, because there's the suspicion that it could have been suicide. He finds out that Hellmann's villa was monitored, the tapes also contain information about the explosion. He uses them for blackmail.
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Borsalino and Co.
Title: Borsalino and Co.
Character: German
Released: October 23, 1974
Type: Movie
Marseille. Heaps of flowers and funeral wreaths... "A man who no longer defends his colors is no longer a man."
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Title: Derrick
Character: Alfred Bandera
Released: October 20, 1974
Type: TV
Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings.
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Title: Derrick
Character: Herr Scherer
Released: October 20, 1974
Type: TV
Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings.
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Title: Derrick
Character: Herr de Mohl
Released: October 20, 1974
Type: TV
Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings.
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The Beast Must Die
Title: The Beast Must Die
Character: Pavel
Released: April 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Wealthy big game hunter Tom Newcliffe has tracked and killed practically every type of animal in the world. But one creature still evades him, the biggest game of all - a werewolf.
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Kiss Me and Die
Title: Kiss Me and Die
Character: Jonathan Lanceford
Released: February 9, 1974
Type: Movie
When his brother vanishes without a trace, American Robert Stone goes to his last known location: a remote English village. Robert's investigation leads him to the mansion of Jonathon Lanceford, a man obsessed with the Gothic works of Edgar Allen Poe, and his beautiful and enigmatic niece Dominie...
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Tony Arzenta
Title: Tony Arzenta
Character: Hans Grunwald (uncredited)
Released: August 23, 1973
Type: Movie
A mob hitman wants to retire, but his bosses don't think that's a good idea. Complications - and many bloody shootouts - ensue.
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The Battle of Sutjeska
Title: The Battle of Sutjeska
Character: Generaloberst Alexander Lohr
Released: July 3, 1973
Type: Movie
The headquarters of the Marshal Tito's Liberation Army are surrounded by Axis forces. The Partisans have no choice but to fight their way out of the encirclement and face the enemy on the plains of Sutjeska.
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Title: Thriller
Character: Jonathan Lanceford
Released: April 14, 1973
Type: TV
Thriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is an anthology series: each episode has a self-contained story and its own cast. As the title suggests, each story is a thriller of some variety, from tales of the supernatural to down-to-earth whodunits.
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Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eyes
Title: Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eyes
Character: Dr. Franz
Released: April 12, 1973
Type: Movie
In a small Scottish village, horribly murdered bodies keep turning up. Suspicion falls upon the residents of a nearby castle that is haunted by a curse involving a killer cat.
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Mark of the Devil Part II
Title: Mark of the Devil Part II
Character: Balthasar von Ross
Released: January 26, 1973
Type: Movie
A tribunal interrogates, tortures and murders "witches" and "heretics" during the Inquisition.
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Little Mother
Title: Little Mother
Character: The Cardinal
Released: January 5, 1973
Type: Movie
Marina Pinares, the wife of the president of a South American country, insists on being his vice-presidential running mate in the next election. She's no stranger to assassination to get what she wants, so some suspect she'll kill her own husband after the election to become president. In a series of flashbacks we see her rise to power: a party girl willing to sacrifice a friend's virtue to gain favor; the lover of a soldier she later tortures; the mistress of the military man she soon marries.
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Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street
Title: Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street
Character: Mensur
Released: November 17, 1972
Type: Movie
A private detective (Glenn Corbett) infiltrates a gang of drug-dealing extortionists who prey on politicians.
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Title: Assignment: Vienna
Character: Insp. Hoffman
Released: September 28, 1972
Type: TV
The story of Jake Webster, an American expatriate in Vienna who was the operator of Jake's Bar & Grill, an American-style establishment near the scenic heart of the city. In fact, the business was a cover for Jake's actual reason for being in Vienna. He was involved in tracking down various spies and international criminals at the behest of U.S. intelligence, which apparently held something against him which, if disclosed, would have resulted in his being deported from Austria and apparently then incarcerated in the United States. Jake's liaison with U.S. intelligence was a Major Caldwell.
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The Day the Clown Cried
Title: The Day the Clown Cried
Character: Captain Curt Runkel
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
An unfinished and unreleased Swedish-French comedy-drama about a Circus clown imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp.
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The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire
Title: The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire
Character: Ambassador Sobieski
Released: August 24, 1971
Type: Movie
In Dublin, the acid-scarred, razor-slashed corpse of a young woman is discovered in the boot of the Swiss Ambassador's limousine. The Ambassador, his family and employees all become immediate suspects. Faced with the problem of diplomatic immunity, the police officer in charge of the case brings in John Norton, an ex-Inspector known for his brutal methods, to carry out an "unoffical" investigation. While Norton develops a relationship with the Ambassdor's attractive daughter, several more gruesome murders occur...
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Zeppelin
Title: Zeppelin
Character: Colonel Hirsch
Released: April 8, 1971
Type: Movie
The outbreak of World War I places Scots officer Geoffrey Richter-Douglas in an uncomfortable position. Although his allegiance is to Britain, his mother was from an aristocratic Bavarian family, and he spent his summers in Germany as a child. When Geoffrey is approached by a German spy who offers him a chance to defect, he reports the incident to his superiors, but instead of arresting the spy they suggest that he accept her offer--and become an Allied agent. In Germany, among old friends, Geoffrey discovers that loyalty is more complicated than he expected, especially when he finds himself aboard the maiden voyage of a powerful new prototype Zeppelin, headed for Scotland on a secret mission that could decide the outcome of the war.
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Title: Scene of the Crime
Character: Mensur
Released: November 29, 1970
Type: TV
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
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Piggies
Title: Piggies
Character: Toto
Released: April 24, 1970
Type: Movie
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Kill Rommel!
Title: Kill Rommel!
Character: Captain Richard Howell
Released: September 6, 1969
Type: Movie
During WWII, US Lieutenant Morris and British captain Hull are assigned in a mission to kill Rommel.
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Michael Kohlhaas - The Rebel
Title: Michael Kohlhaas - The Rebel
Character: Kurfürst
Released: April 11, 1969
Type: Movie
It's medieval times. Kohlhaas merchants with horses. When going to the local fair to sell his horses, is forced by a noble to leave him part of the merchandise as payment for traveling through his land, promising to give it back when the fair is over. When he returns, the horses are almost dead, and the man refuse to respond, so Kohlhass begins to fight unsuccesfuly against the injustice.
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Title: Der Kommissar
Character: Roland Sauter
Released: January 3, 1969
Type: TV
Der Kommissar is a German television series about a group of detectives of the Munich homicide squad. All 97 episodes, which were shot in black-and-white and first broadcast between 1969 and 1976, were written by Herbert Reinecker and starred Erik Ode as Kommissar Herbert Keller. Keller's assistants were Walter Grabert, Robert Heines, and Harry Klein who, in 1974, was replaced by his younger brother Erwin Klein.
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Where Eagles Dare
Title: Where Eagles Dare
Character: Col. Kramer
Released: December 4, 1968
Type: Movie
World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly impossible to breach. It's up to a group of skilled Allied soldiers to liberate the general before it's too late.
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Counterpoint
Title: Counterpoint
Character: Col. Arndt
Released: December 22, 1967
Type: Movie
In December of 1944, Lionel Evans, an internationally renowned American conductor, is on a USO tour with his 70-piece symphony orchestra in newly-liberated Belgium. While fleeing from a German counterattack, Evans and his orchestra members are captured by a Panzer division and taken to an old chateau in Luxembourg. Despite orders to execute every prisoner, General Schiller, an avid music lover, commands Evans to give a private concert for him.
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The Double Man
Title: The Double Man
Character: Col. Berthold
Released: April 25, 1967
Type: Movie
In a complex piece of espionage the Russian secret service attempts to kidnap a high ranking officer in the CIA and replace him with a double of its own.
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Fahrenheit 451
Title: Fahrenheit 451
Character: Fabian / Headmistress
Released: September 7, 1966
Type: Movie
In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers, known as “firemen,” to perform the necessary book burnings. Fireman Montag begins to question the morality of his vocation…
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The Blue Max
Title: The Blue Max
Character: Holbach
Released: June 21, 1966
Type: Movie
A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambitiously to earn the medal offered for 20 kills.
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The Heroes of Telemark
Title: The Heroes of Telemark
Character: Major Frick
Released: November 12, 1965
Type: Movie
Set in German-occupied Norway, resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist Rolf Pedersen in an effort to destroy the German heavy water production plant in rural Telemark.
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Title: BBC Play of the Month
Character: Adolf Eichmann
Released: October 19, 1965
Type: TV
Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays which were usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983; the producer most associated with the Play of the Month was Cedric Messina. Some of the 121 episodes are missing from the archives, having been junked in the 1960s and 1970s. Unless stated otherwise, the indication that the play is "lost" is taken from the lostshows.com website page as of 25 May 2013.
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Geld, Geld, Geld - 2 Milliarden gegen die Bank von England
Title: Geld, Geld, Geld - 2 Milliarden gegen die Bank von England
Character: SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich
Released: June 14, 1965
Type: Movie
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Shots in 3/4 Time
Title: Shots in 3/4 Time
Character: Burger
Released: April 8, 1965
Type: Movie
B 501, a newly developed controller for missiles, has disappeared despite the strict surveillance. Phillippe Tissout is sent by his boss to Paris to take over the case.
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Operation Crossbow
Title: Operation Crossbow
Character: SS Sturmbannfuhrer
Released: April 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant.The film alternates between German developments of the V-1 missile and V-2 rocket (with a German cast speaking their own language) and discovery by British Intelligence of the weapon.
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Lana: Queen of the Amazons
Title: Lana: Queen of the Amazons
Character: Prof. van Vries
Released: November 10, 1964
Type: Movie
A scientist and his nephew are hosts of Lana, queen of the Amazons, while other crew men try to find and take hold of the legendary Amazons' treasure.
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Vorsicht Mister Dodd
Title: Vorsicht Mister Dodd
Character: Howard
Released: February 13, 1964
Type: Movie
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Title: Doctor Who
Character: De Flores
Released: November 23, 1963
Type: TV
The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.
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Title: Interpol
Character: SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich
Released: August 22, 1963
Type: TV
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Incident at Midnight
Title: Incident at Midnight
Character: Dr. Erik Leichner
Released: January 1, 1963
Type: Movie
In a late night chemist a shot bank robber has been taken for treatment, and to rendezvous with the gang leader.
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Title: Studio Four
Released: January 22, 1962
Type: TV
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Enter Inspector Duval
Title: Enter Inspector Duval
Character: Inspector Duval
Released: June 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Inspector Duval comes to London to help crack the case of a socialite murdered during a jewel heist.
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Circus of Horrors
Title: Circus of Horrors
Character: Dr. Schuler
Released: April 1, 1960
Type: Movie
A plastic surgeon and his nurse join a bizarre circus to escape from the police. Here he befriends deformed women and transforms them for his "Temple of Beauty". However, when they threaten to leave, they meet with mysterious accidents.
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The Man Who Could Cheat Death
Title: The Man Who Could Cheat Death
Character: Dr. Georges Bonner
Released: June 15, 1959
Type: Movie
Dr. Bonner plans to live forever through periodic gland transplants from younger, healthier human victims. Bonner looks about 40; he's really 104 years old. But people are starting to get suspicious, and he may not make 200.
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Title: One Step Beyond
Character: Wilhelm Hessler
Released: January 20, 1959
Type: TV
Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond is an American anthology series created by Merwin Gerard. The original series ran for three seasons on ABC from January 1959 to July 1961.
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Mark of the Phoenix
Title: Mark of the Phoenix
Character: Inspector Schell
Released: October 31, 1958
Type: Movie
A jewel thief finds himself a target when a smuggled cigarette case made from a stolen new metal falls into his hands.
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A Question of Adultery
Title: A Question of Adultery
Character: Carl Dieter
Released: July 15, 1958
Type: Movie
Mark Loring is madly jealous of his wife, Mary, former American cabaret singer. Due to an automobile accident, she loses her unborn child, and Mark becomes sterile. His father, Brit-stuffy Sir John Loring, has never approved of the marriage and, again, tries to break it up. Believing that a child will hold the marriage together, Mary suggests artificial insemination to Mark, who finally agrees to accompany her to a clinic in Switzerland. However, when she is again pregnant, Mark finds it impossible to reconcile himself to the situation and leaves her. Prompted by his father, Mark sues for divorce, accusing her of adultery. She contests the divorce and a trial concerns itself with whether or not artificial insemination is a question of adultery. The Catholic Church's National League of Decency placed this film on its Condemned" list.
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Tales of Frankenstein
Title: Tales of Frankenstein
Character: Baron Frankenstein
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: Movie
In this pilot for a series that was never picked up, Dr. Frankenstein has just finished rebuilding his creation, but the monster is unresponsive. He needs to try something different to make it work, perhaps some new parts. Enter a terminally ill sculptor and his assertive wife…
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Seven Thunders
Title: Seven Thunders
Character: Col. Trautman
Released: September 4, 1957
Type: Movie
Escaping British prisoners of war hide out in German occupied France.
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Lady of Vengeance
Title: Lady of Vengeance
Character: Karmak
Released: August 1, 1957
Type: Movie
When publisher William Marshall learns his young ward Melissa Collins has committed suicide, he sets in motion a plan to murder the man who drove Melissa to kill herself. Mistakenly believing that singer Larry Shaw is his intended target, Marshall unwittingly seeks help from the man who actually broke Melissa's heart.
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The Crooked Sky
Title: The Crooked Sky
Character: Fraser
Released: March 31, 1957
Type: Movie
An American detective unmasks a gambler as the head of a banknote counterfeiting gang.
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The Traitor
Title: The Traitor
Character: Joseph Brezina
Released: March 1, 1957
Type: Movie
One time members of a resistance group come together every year to remember their dead leader, betrayed to and executed by the Nazis. When it seems that they might finally know the name of the traitor - and that he or she comes from within their own unit - their annual gathering becomes a deadly trial...
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House of Secrets
Title: House of Secrets
Character: Anton Lauderbach
Released: October 23, 1956
Type: Movie
Police in Paris recruit an English ship's officer (Michael Craig) to help trap counterfeiters by joining them.
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Title: Wire Service
Character: Joseph Tezlik
Released: October 4, 1956
Type: TV
Wire Service is an American drama series that aired on ABC as part of its 1956-57 season lineup.
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Title: Hancock's Half Hour
Released: July 6, 1956
Type: TV
Hancock's Half Hour is a BBC radio comedy, and later television comedy, series of the 1950s and 60s written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The series starred Tony Hancock, with Sid James; the radio version also co-starred, at various times, Moira Lister, Andrée Melly, Hattie Jacques, Bill Kerr and Kenneth Williams. The final television series, renamed simply Hancock, starred Hancock alone. Comedian Tony Hancock starred in the show, playing an exaggerated and much poorer version of his own character and lifestyle, Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock, a down-at-heel comedian living at the dilapidated 23 Railway Cuttings in East Cheam. The series was influential in the development of the situation comedy, with its move away from radio variety towards a focus on character development.
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Reach for the Sky
Title: Reach for the Sky
Character: German Stabsfeldwebel
Released: July 5, 1956
Type: Movie
The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying accident to become a successful fighter pilot and wing leader during World War II.
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Seven Years in Tibet
Title: Seven Years in Tibet
Character: Erzähler
Released: May 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian moutain climber, escapes from a British POW camp in India and flees north across the Himalayan mountains into Tibet. There he meets and befriends the young Dalai Lama.
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The Black Tent
Title: The Black Tent
Character: Senior German Officer
Released: April 9, 1956
Type: Movie
During the British retreat through Libya, a British officer takes shelter with a group of Arab Bedouin. He marries the chief's daughter. Sometime later, his younger brother, who had believed him to be dead, is informed that he may be alive in Libya - prompting him to set out and search for him.
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Title: Colonel March of Scotland Yard
Character: Francois
Released: February 22, 1956
Type: TV
Colonel March of The Department of Queer Complaints investigates unusual cases, locked-room murders, and mysteries concerning the supernatural.
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Title: Colonel March of Scotland Yard
Character: Davos
Released: February 22, 1956
Type: TV
Colonel March of The Department of Queer Complaints investigates unusual cases, locked-room murders, and mysteries concerning the supernatural.
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Doublecross
Title: Doublecross
Character: Dmitri Krassin
Released: February 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A Cornish fisherman becomes involved with Iron Curtain spies.
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I Am a Camera
Title: I Am a Camera
Character: Fritz Wendel
Released: July 21, 1955
Type: Movie
Just before the Nazis ascend to power in Berlin, Chris, an aspiring novelist from England, meets flamboyant cabaret entertainer Sally Bowles and an unusual friendship is born. As Sally feeds her extravagant tastes, Chris goes along for the ride, until their Jewish pal, Fritz, encounters trouble.
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Title: Dixon of Dock Green
Character: Charles Mason
Released: July 9, 1955
Type: TV
Created by Ted Willis. Dixon of Dock Green was a BBC television series following the activities of police officers at a fictional Metropolitan Police station in the East End of London from 1955 to 1976. Some episodes were later remade as a BBC radio series in 2005 and 2006.
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The Colditz Story
Title: The Colditz Story
Character: Hauptmann Fischer
Released: January 25, 1955
Type: Movie
Allied prisoners of various nationalities pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from an "escape-proof" German P.O.W. camp housed in a Medieval castle.
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The Sea Shall Not Have Them
Title: The Sea Shall Not Have Them
Character: German Pilot
Released: June 1, 1954
Type: Movie
During autumn of 1944, an RAF Hudson carrying a VIP passenger in possession of highly secret information is shot down and ditches in the North Sea. Fighting the elements and trying to keep up morale, the occupants of the aircraft's dinghy talk about their lives awaiting the rescue they hope will come. The film's title reflects the motto of the RAF's Air Sea Rescue Service, one of whose high speed launches battles against its own mechanical problems, enemy action, time and the weather to locate and rescue the downed crew and the vital secret papers they carry.
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Operation Diplomat
Title: Operation Diplomat
Character: Edward Shroder
Released: December 1, 1953
Type: Movie
A physician is forced to operate on a mystery figure under shady circumstances.
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Albert R.N.
Title: Albert R.N.
Character: Capt Schultz
Released: November 23, 1953
Type: Movie
The British inmates of a POW camp think they have an informer among them after several escape attempts fail. One of the prisoners constructs a dummy which they christen "Albert" and use at roll call in order to foil the German guards.
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Park Plaza 605
Title: Park Plaza 605
Character: Gregor
Released: September 11, 1953
Type: Movie
Suave private investigator Norman Conquest intercepts a secret message and meets a beautiful but foreign blonde lady in room 605 of the Park Plaza hotel. But when Conquest wakes up in the room the next morning he is lying next to a dead body. With the mysterious blonde nowhere to be seen, Conquest soon becomes the police s number one suspect with Inspector Williams following his every move. In order to clear his name, Conquest enlists the help of Pixie Everard (Joy Shelton), but the going gets rough when he discovers that the murder is connected to a stash of stolen diamonds. As gun-happy gangs of communists and Nazi sympathizers turn up the heat, Conquest has to solve the murder whilst staying one step ahead of both the gangs and the police.
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The Red Beret
Title: The Red Beret
Character: The Pole
Released: August 11, 1953
Type: Movie
Steve MacKendrick resigns from the US Army after causing the needless death of a fellow officer. Wanting to serve in the war, he enlists as a Canadian in the British 1st Parachute Brigade. He proves himself exceptionally skilled for a recruit, arousing the suspicion of his commanding officer who starts an investigation. He redeems himself during combat. The film was titled "Paratrooper" in the US.
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Never Let Me Go
Title: Never Let Me Go
Character: Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Released: March 18, 1953
Type: Movie
An American reporter falls in love with a Russian ballet dancer.
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Top Secret
Title: Top Secret
Character: Border Police GDR (uncredited)
Released: November 10, 1952
Type: Movie
A British Sanitary Engineer, goes on holiday with a set of plans for a new secret weapon which he has mistaken for his new plumbing invention. Everyone is hunting for him, including the Russians. The Russians find him and offer him a job in the Kremlin doing research (on plumbing he believes). He accepts, arrives in Russia and falls in love with Tania, a secret agent. And then discovers the true nature of the plans he is carrying...
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The Woman's Angle
Title: The Woman's Angle
Character: Peasant
Released: February 12, 1952
Type: Movie
The organising force of a family of musical prodigies, Robert Mansell is a frustrated composer in seach of one thing personal happiness. This search, however, has landed him in the divorce courts and the judge's summary does not paint him in a favourable light.
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Song of Paris
Title: Song of Paris
Character: Renoir
Released: February 10, 1952
Type: Movie
An archetypal Englishman returns from a jaunt abroad to face a dastardly foreign count in a screwball duel for the hand of a beautiful mademoiselle.
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Appointment with Venus
Title: Appointment with Venus
Character: 2nd German Soldier
Released: October 8, 1951
Type: Movie
At the outbreak of WWII the British realise they can't prevent the invasion of the Channel Islands. However, someone realises that a prize cow is on the islands and the Nazis mustn't get hold of her. This is the intrepid story of the cow-napping from under the noses of the Nazis.
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Hotel Sahara
Title: Hotel Sahara
Character: German Soldier
Released: July 9, 1951
Type: Movie
World War II farce about the hotel of the title
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Highly Dangerous
Title: Highly Dangerous
Character: Officer at Station (uncredited)
Released: December 6, 1950
Type: Movie
A US newsman and a British entomologist spy on germ-warfare research in a mythical country.
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State Secret
Title: State Secret
Character: State Police Officer at Theater
Released: September 11, 1950
Type: Movie
Visiting in England, an American surgeon Doctor John Marlowe is decoyed to a middle European country, and discovers the operation he is to perform is on the Vosnian dictator. When the latter dies, he is replaced by a look-alike, but Marlowe then becomes the object of a shoot-to-kill, vicious pursuit by the secret police of Vosnia since it is vital to Vosnia that the dictator's death does not become known. Fleeing, he seeks help from an actress, Lisa Robinson, and the two are harried across the countryside.
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Neutral Port
Title: Neutral Port
Character: Sailor
Released: December 6, 1940
Type: Movie
A British merchant ship is torpedoed by a German U-Boat and takes shelter in a neutral port. The Captain then strikes back at the German enemy.
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Convoy
Title: Convoy
Character: U-Boat Officer
Released: September 28, 1940
Type: Movie
A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.