Anton Diffring

Anton Diffring
Birth date:	20 October 1916
Death date:	19 May 1989
Work in the DWU
Main roles:	De Flores
Main jobs:	Actor
Main time period active:	1988
Career highlights
Notable non-DWU work:	Operation Diplomat, Colonel March of Scotland Yard, Hancock's Half Hour, The Man Who Could Cheat Death, HG Wells' Invisible Man, Circus of Horrors, Ghost Squad, The Heroes of Telemark, Dixon of Dock Green, The Baron, Where Eagles Dare, Mogul, Thriller, The Beast Must Die, Operation Daybreak, Sherlock Holmes and the Masks of Death
IMDb profile

Anton Diffring (born 20 October 1916 in Koblenz, Germany; died 19 May 1989 in France) played De Flores in the Doctor Who television story Silver Nemesis.

He was best known in the English-speaking world for his portrayal of Nazi officers, in films such as Where Eagles Dare (1968) and The Heroes of Telemark (1965). He appeared in the 1966 film adaptation of Fahrenheit 451, playing one of the firemen and also the school headmistress. He also starred in the film Operation Daybreak as the SS officer Reinhard Heydrich.

External links

• Anton Diffring at the Internet Movie Database