Anton Diffring

Anton Diffring
Country: Germany
Total Credits at Criticker: 44 (Actor)
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Fahrenheit 451
In an oppressive future, a fireman whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task. (imdb)
Operation Daybreak
In 1942 Czechoslovakia, SS-General Reinhard Heydrich is appointed to become the Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia... (imdb)
The Blue Max
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. (imdb)
Tony Arzenta
A mob hitman wants to retire, but his bosses don't think that's a good idea. Complications--and many bloody shootouts-ensue. (imdb)
Tatort
The Man Who Could Cheat Death
A remake of "The Man in Half Moon Street" (1945) (qv.). 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. (imdb)
Circus of Horrors
In 1947 England, a plastic surgeon must beat a hasty retreat to France when one of his patients has ghastly problems with her surgery. Once there, he operates on a circus owner's daughter, deformed by bombs from the war. Later he becomes the owner of the circus, and continues transforming disfigured women into the beautiful stars of his show... (imdb)
The Beast Must Die
Tom Newcliffe, a rich businessman and expert hunter summons six guests to his huge country estate which he has rigged up with video cameras and a high-tech security system. He tells them and his surprised wife that they are all to stay over a weekend and that all of them will be kept on the estate during that weekend. For each guest, dead bodies have followed in their wake and the way that the dead have been murdered means that one of the guest is a werewolf and Tom has summoned his guests here to discover who it is and to hunt it down.(imdb)
Tusk
An English girl and an Indian elephant, born on the same day, share a common destiny. (imdb)
Faceless
The demented Dr. Flamand (Helmut Berger) and his beautiful but deadly assistant Nathalie (Brigitte Lahaie) lure unsuspecting victims in this horror feature. The doctor uses the young skins of his victims to perform plastic surgery on his disfigured sister. Telly Savalas is Hallen, the New York businessman who hires private detective Sam Morgan (Chris Mitchum) to find his missing fashion model daughter Barbara (Caroline Munro). (allmovie)
Vanessa
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 (imdb)
Seven Deaths in the Cat\
This mystery takes place in the ancestral home of the MacGrieff family. The Lady MacGrieff is rebuffed in an attempt to get financial help from visiting relative Lady Alicia when the unexpected arrival of Alicia's young daughter Corringa changes Lady MacGrieff's plans. Hoping to pair her son Lord James MacGrief with Corringa, she plots to bring them together. James' sensitive side is shown by his hobby of painting and in his choice of pet -- an oversized orangutan bought from a passing circus.
Die Antwort kennt nur der Wind
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. (imdb)
Shatter
Stuart Whitman is Shatter, an international hitman who is hiding out in Hong Kong after he has completed a contract out on an African leader. Shatter soon finds out that everyone wants him dead, including the crime syndicate, the cops and the brother of the African leader he killed. Shatter teams up with a kung fu expert (Ti Lung) to try to get the money that is owed to him. Various double crosses and fight scenes ensue. (imdb)
Tales of Frankenstein
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.... (imdb)
The Accursed
A German Jewish doctor, who is a former resistance fighter against the Nazis during the war, attends an annual reunion at the home of a former British officer. However, when he discovers that many of his former compatriots have mysteriously died, he begins to suspect that one of the "resistance" fighters may in fact have been a Nazi agent who is now trying to eliminate all the members of the unit. (imdb)
The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire
In Dublin, a young woman is brutally murdered in her home by a maniac that throws acid in her face and then slits her throat with a razor. Her mangled body is later discovered in the boot of a limousine owned by the Swiss Ambassador Sobiesky. (imdb)
Zeppelin
Set during WWI, a British defector who goes to work in the fledgling German airship industry. In truth, Richter-Douglas is a spy, who has feigned defection in order to steal the plans for the revolutionary new Zeppelin. Our hero goes under cover so well that, when he tries to inform his own government of a German plan to steal the Magna Carta and thus irreparably damage British morale... (All Movie Guide)
Little Mother
Woman rises from being an out-of-work actress to the wife of a powerful South American dictator. (imdb)
Counterpoint
Famous orchestra conductor is captured by the Germans in WW2, is forced to put on private concerts for the Nazi generals. (imdb)
The Double Man
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. (imdb)
The Day the Clown Cried
A circus clown is imprisoned by the Nazis and goes with Jewish children to their deaths (imdb)
I Am a Camera
Film forms the basis for Bob Fosse's masterpiece 'CABARET'. It tells the story of Sally Bowles in a non-musical context.
Sherlock Holmes and the Masks of Death
Sherlock Holmes has retired. But when MacDonald asks him to take on another case, he says yes. There has 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. (imdb)
Son of Hitler
The leader of a right-wing German political party discovers that an illiterate woodcarver is actually the son of Adolf Hitler. He kidnaps the young man from a mental institution and prepares him to start the Fourth Reich. (imdb)
Montana Trap
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. (allrovi.com)
S.A.S. San Salvador
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. (imdb)
Seven Thunders
British POWs hide from the Germans in occupied France. (tcm.com)
The Crooked Sky
An American detective unmasks a gambler as the head of a banknote counterfeiting gang. (imdb)
Bachelor in Paris
The first of British director John Guillermin's two 1952 offerings was Song of Paris. Dennis Price stars as stomach-pill sales representative Matthew Ibbetson, who goes to Paris to close a business deal. While taking in the sights, Ibbetson inaugurates a casual affair with French chanteuse Clementine (Anne Vernon). Upon returning to London, Ibbetson finds to his dismay that Clementine has followed him. (allmovie.com)
The Black Tent
During the British retreat, David Holland (Anthony Steel) takes shelter with a Bedouin tribe and marries the sheik's daughter (Anna-Maria Sandri). He dies, however, while trying to rejoin his regiment. (imdb)
Break to Freedom
When several escapes at an German pow camp go wrong, the prisoners begin to think, that there is an informer revealing their plans to the enemy. Then Lt Ainsworth, an artist in civvie street, invents a model head of a fictious prisoner, who can take the place of an escaper, when the men march back from the bath house, which is situated outside the camp. (imdb)
House of Secrets
Ship's officer Larry Ellis is asked by the CIA to help infiltrate a forgery ring in France as he is almost a double for a dead double-crossing gold courier who worked for the gang. Ellis realizes his life is at risk but that so is the stability of the money supplies of the Western world. (imdb)
Kill Rommel!
During WWII, US Lieutenant Morris and British captain Hull are assigned in a mission to kill Rommel. (imdb)
Lady of Vengeance
A man he hires a killer to avenge an innocent girl's death. (imdb)
Lana: Queen of the Amazons
A scientist and his nephew are hosts of Lana, queen of the Amazons. Meanwhile, other white men penetrate the Brezilean jungle, wishing to find and take hold of the legendary Amazons' treasure. (imdb)
Mark of the Devil Part II
A tribunal interrogates, tortures and murders "witches" and "heretics" during the Inquisition. (imdb)
Operation Diplomat
A surgeon operating on an unknown patient discovers he is involved in the kidnapping of a British diplomat. When his personal secretary is murdered for revealing the patient's identity, the police are called in. (Wikipedia)
Schüsse im 3/4 Takt
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. (imdb)
Incident at Midnight
In a late night pharmacy, a shot bank robber has been taken for treatment, and tries to rendezvous with his gang leader.
A Question of Adultery
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.
Non Stop Trouble with Spies
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, already the CIA waiting for him to be the taxi driver again suspected of being a top agent of the KGB.
Park Plaza 605
A private detective solves a murder of which he has been accused, and tracks down a gang of jewel smugglers.