Anton Diffring

Actor 1940–2003 (63 year career)

5.8 avg rating

Highest Rated

Shots in 3/4 Time

1965 · as Burger

8.5

The Commissioner

1969 · as Roland Sauter

7.9

Doctor Who

1963 · as De Flores

7.9

Known For

Film

Where Eagles Dare

Col. Kramer

Film

Fahrenheit 451

Fabian / Headmistress

Film

Escape to Victory

chief commentator

Film

The Heroes of Telemark

Major Frick

Film

The Blue Max

Holbach

Film

Operation Crossbow

SS Sturmbannfuhrer

Film

Borsalino and Co.

German

Film

The Winds of War

Joachim von Ribbentrop

Filmography

Acting (116)

Movies (92)

The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway

2003

The Making of Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis

1988

Faceless

1988

as Dr. Karl Heinz Moser

5.7

Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis

as De Flores

Anna

as George Mamoulian

Wahnfried

as Franz Listz

Der Sommer des Samurai

as Wintrich

Operation Dead End

as Prof. Lang

Marie Ward - Zwischen Galgen und Glorie

1985

as Kardinal Millini

The Masks of Death

1984

as Graf Udo Von Felseck

5.2

Weltuntergang

1984

Der Besuch

1984

as Crazier

Non Stop Trouble with Spies

as Colonel Henderson

S.A.S. San Salvador

as Peter Reynolds

Escape to Victory

as chief commentator

Tusk

as John Morrison

Son of Hitler

as Gernheim

Der Durchdreher

as Glorias erster Mann

Das Einhorn

as Blomich

Plutonium

as Direktor Arnold

Valentino

as Baron Long

The Indians Are Still Far Away

1977

as Le professeur d'allemand

Io sono mia

as Padre di Suna

Vanessa

as Major Kenneth Cooper

4.8

Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun

as Old Priest

Waldrausch

as Fürst

Montana Trap

as Lieutenant Slade

The Swiss Conspiracy

as Franz Benninger

Operation: Daybreak

as Reinhard Heydrich

H.P. Lovecraft: The Shadow Out of Time

1975

as Professor Peterson

4.0

Lehmanns Erzählungen

1975

as Allan

Borsalino and Co.

as German

Shatter

as Hans Leber

The Beast Must Die

as Pavel

Only the Wind Knows the Answer

1974

as John Keelwood

5.0

Kiss Me and Die

1974

as Jonathan Lanceford

5.0

The Battle of Sutjeska

1973

as Generaloberst Alexander Lohr

6.4

Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye

1973

as Dr. Franz

5.4

Tony Arzenta

1973

as Hans Grunwald (uncredited)

6.0

Little Mother

1973

as The Cardinal

3.0

Mark of the Devil Part II

1973

as Balthasar von Ross

4.6

Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street

1972

as Mensur

5.0

The Day the Clown Cried

1972

as Captain Curt Runkel

Zeppelin

1971

as Colonel Hirsch

6.1

The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire

1971

as Ambassador Sobieski

5.2

Piggies

1970

as Toto

1.0

Michael Kohlhaas - The Rebel

1969

as Kurfürst

5.8

Kill Rommel!

1969

as Captain Richard Howell

Where Eagles Dare

as Col. Kramer

Counterpoint

as Col. Arndt

The Double Man

as Col. Berthold

Fahrenheit 451

as Fabian / Headmistress

The Blue Max

as Holbach

Operation Crossbow

as SS Sturmbannfuhrer

6.7

The Heroes of Telemark

as Major Frick

Shots in 3/4 Time

as Burger

Geld, Geld, Geld - 2 Milliarden gegen die Bank von England

1965

as SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich

Lana: Queen of the Amazons

1964

as Prof. van Vries

2.8

Vorsicht Mister Dodd

1964

as Howard

Incident at Midnight

1963

as Dr. Erik Leichner

7.0

Enter Inspector Duval

1961

as Inspector Duval

Circus of Horrors

1960

as Dr. Schuler

5.8

The Man Who Could Cheat Death

1959

as Dr. Georges Bonner

5.7

A Question of Adultery

1958

as Carl Dieter

3.3

Tales of Frankenstein

1958

as Baron Frankenstein

Mark of the Phoenix

as Inspector Schell

The Crooked Sky

as Fraser

Seven Thunders

as Col. Trautman

The Traitor

as Joseph Brezina

Lady of Vengeance

as Karmak

House of Secrets

as Anton Lauderbach

Reach for the Sky

as German Stabsfeldwebel

Doublecross

as Dmitri Krassin

The Black Tent

as Senior German Officer

Seven Years in Tibet

as Narrator (voice)

The Colditz Story

as Hauptmann Fischer

I Am a Camera

as Fritz Wendel

The Sea Shall Not Have Them

as German Pilot

Albert R.N.

as Capt Schultz

Never Let Me Go

as Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)

Park Plaza 605

as Gregor

The Red Beret

as The Pole

Operation Diplomat

as Edward Shroder

Top Secret

as Border Police GDR (uncredited)

Bachelor in Paris

as Renoir

The Woman's Angle

as Peasant

Appointment with Venus

1951

as 2nd German Soldier

Hotel Sahara

as German Soldier

State Secret

as State Police Officer at Theater

6.7

Highly Dangerous

1950

as Officer at Station (uncredited)

Convoy

as U-Boat Officer

Neutral Port

as Sailor

Television (24)

The Winds of War

1983

as Joachim von Ribbentrop

7.3

The Winds of War

1983

as Joachim von Ribbentrop

Flambards

as Mr Dermot

Le Mutant

as O'Brien

Der Alte

as Leo Steglitz

The Galton & Simpson Playhouse

1977

as Heinz Steiner

Kommissariat 9

Derrick

as Alfred Bandera

Thriller

as Jonathan Lanceford

6.7

Assignment: Vienna

1972

as Insp. Hoffman

Scene of the Crime

as Mensur

The Commissioner

as Roland Sauter

BBC Play of the Month

1965

as Adolf Eichmann

5.0

Theatre 625

1964

as Count Wolf von Helldorf

Doctor Who

as De Flores

Interpol

as SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich

Studio 4

One Step Beyond

as Wilhelm Hessler

Overseas Press Club - Exclusive!

1957

as Louis Walleau

Hancock's Half Hour

1956

7.3

Wire Service

1956

as Joseph Tezlik

Colonel March of Scotland Yard

as Francois

Armchair Theatre

as Cast Member

Dixon of Dock Green

as Charles Mason