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- By then, his great knack for playing Germans was actually beginning to fool people into thinking he really was German, prompting his great partner in crime, Anton Diffring, to famously remark: "You're more German than I am!"
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Dec 31, 2018 · Filmgoers must have been confused to see their favourite German fighting for the Allies. In 1968 Diffring left Britain to go to live in Italy, believing that it would help him get more non-Nazi...
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.
Dec 31, 2018 · When the Nazis consolidated their power in Germany Diffring had two reasons to be concerned. He had a Jewish background and he was gay. Having trained as an actor in Berlin and Vienna, Anton left his homeland in the late 1930s and went first to the US and then to Canada, where he was interned as an “enemy alien”.
Mar 31, 2010 · By then, his great knack for playing Germans was actually beginning to fool people into thinking he really was German, prompting his great partner in crime, Anton Diffring, to famously remark: "You're more German than I am!"
Derren Nesbitt played cold-blooded SS officer, Major von Hapen, in Where Eagles Dare (1968) and so effective was he in the role that his co-star Anton Diffring, famously remarked: “You’re more German than I am!”. In fact he had fled Germany before the War and sought refuge in Canada.
Anton Diffring (born Alfred Pollack, 20 October 1916 – 19 May 1989) was a German-born character actor who had an extensive career in the United Kingdom from the 1940s to the 1980s, latterly appearing in international films. He appeared in over 50 features and was typically cast as a Nazi officer.
Depending on which source you believe, he was either born Anton de Vient or Alfred Pollack, in Koblenz and, ironically given his forte for playing Teutonic villains, he actually fled Nazi Germany in 1939, having trained as an actor in both Berlin and Vienna.
