12 Facts About Anton Diffring

Anton Diffring had an extensive film and television career in the United Kingdom from the 1940s to the 1980s, latterly appearing in international films.

Anton Diffring's father, Solomon Pollack, was a Jewish shop-owner who managed to avoid internment and survived Nazi rule in Germany.

Anton Diffring studied acting in Berlin and Vienna, but there is conjecture about when he left Germany prior to the outbreak of World War II.

Anton Diffring played Hitler's foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop in the American mini-series The Winds of War.

On stage, Anton Diffring played the title role in the musical Mister Venus, opposite Frankie Howerd.

Anton Diffring played a part in the TV mini-series Flambards as the aeronautical pioneer who assists William Russell, second in line of inheritance to the Flambards Estate, who is obsessed with flying.

Anton Diffring's character was a German living in Britain shortly before the beginning of the Great War.

Anton Diffring starred in several horror films, such as The Man Who Could Cheat Death and Circus of Horrors and played the lead in the television pilot Tales of Frankenstein.

Anton Diffring appeared in international films, such as Fahrenheit 451, an English-language film directed by Francois Truffaut.

Anton Diffring appeared in the 1964 West German comedy A Mission for Mr Dodd having previously starred in the West End play Out of Bounds on which it is based.

Anton Diffring died on 19 May 1989 from cancer at his home in Chateauneuf-Grasse, in the South of France, at the age of 72.

Anton Diffring's body was buried in the graveyard of St Andrew's Church, in the village of White Colne in Essex.