Albert Lieven
Birthday: Born in 1906-06-23 in Hohenstein, Germany
Deathday: 1971-12-22
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The Avengers
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The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed. Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants. His most famous assistants were intelligent, stylish and assertive women: Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King. Later episodes increasingly incorporated elements of science fiction and fantasy, parody and British eccentricity....
Man of the World
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Man of the World was an ATV drama series, distributed by ITC Entertainment. The show ran in the United Kingdom in 1962 and 1963 for 20 one-hour episodes in monochrome. The series stars Craig Stevens as Michael Strait, a world-renowned photographer whose assignments lead him into investigating mysterious goings-on amongst the rich and glamorous and intrigue from far-flung place as Iraq, Indo-China, and Algiers. Tracy Reed co-stars in the first season....
Das Halstuch
Character: Clifton „Terry“ Morris
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Pater Brown
Character: Lord Seymore
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Der Andere
Character: David Henderson
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Wie ein Blitz
Character: Gordon Stewart
It all begins when the wealthy real estate shark Gordon Stuart (Albert Lieven) is murdered in a lonely villa by his wife Diana (Ingmar Zeisberg) and his closest collaborator Mark Paxton (Peter Eschberg). When Mark wants to get rid of the corpse, it suddenly disappears. A nerve-wracking game of "cat and mouse" turns the perpetrators into victims. Inspector Clay (Horst Bollmann) investigates and soon stumbles across more corpses...
Die Schlüssel
Character: Inspektor Hyde
German miniseries....
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The Victors
Character: Herr Metzger
Intercutting dramatic vignettes with newsreel footage, the story follows the characters from an infantry squad as they make their way from Sicily to Germany during the end of World War II....
City of Fear
Character: Paul
A Canadian reporter gets mixed up in Cold-War politics, romance and espionage in Eastern Europe....
Subway in the Sky
Character: Carl
Berlin provides the backdrop for this crime drama that centers on a military doctor falsely accused of dealing illegal drugs. Determined to prove his innocence, he escapes from the MPs and ends up holing up in the apartment his wife rented. He doesn't know that she has sublet the flat to a nightclub singer. When he finds out, he begs the singer to assist him. She is attracted to him and agrees. The doctor believes that his wife is behind the black-market dealings, but in the end, they find the r...
The Seventh Veil
Character: Maxwell Leyden
A concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory....
Yellow Canary
Character: Jan Orlock
A socialite poses as a Nazi spy to mask her activities as a British agent....
Gorilla Gang
Character: Henry Parker
When another dead elderly gentleman is fished out of the Thames, Inspector David Perkins is convinced that the gorilla gang is active again. On a doll found with the body, characters of an African language are discovered. Together with Sergeant Pepper and language specialist Susan MacPherson, the search for the head of the gang begins....
Traitor's Gate
Character: Trayne
A businessman organises a caper to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London....
Death Drums Along the River
Character: Dr. Franz Weiss
A British colonial policeman in Africa investigates a murder in a hospital up river....
Beware of Pity
Character: Lt. Anton Marek
A paraplegic baroness mistakes a man's pity for love - and tragedy ensues....
English Without Tears
Character: Felix Dembowski
While Lady Christabel Beauclark, a bird fancier, is scurrying about demanding certain territorial rights for British birds from other countries, Her Ladyship's niece is falling in love with the family butler, Tom Gilbey. The birds are forgotten when war breaks out, and Gilbey now finds himself in love with the niece whose love was previously unrequited. Written by Les Adams...
Desperate Moment
Character: Paul Ravitch, alias Schleger
Story of a Dutchman's flight across post-war Germany trying to locate the man who alone can clear him of a false murder charge. (BFI Website)...
I by Day, You by Night
Character: Wolf
A nightclub waiter and a manicurist share the same room, he sleeps there by night and she by day. They've never meet , but they can't stand each other. Then they meet by chance, not knowing who's who and fall in love....
The House of Intrigue
Character: Matt
A radio operator for the British Army is captured in a Nazi-occupied Dutch city....
Conspiracy of Hearts
Character: Colonel Horsten
In wartime Italy nuns in a convent regularly smuggle Jewish children out of a nearby internment camp. The Italian army officer in charge suspects what may be going on but deliberately turns a blind eye. When the Germans take over the camp security the nuns' activities become far more dangerous....
Die Feuerzangenbowle
Character: Mitglied der Tischrunde
The title refers to the Feuerzangenbowle punch consumed by a group of gentlemen in the opening scene. While they exchange nostalgic stories about their schooldays, the successful young writer Dr. Johannes Pfeiffer realizes he missed out on something because he was taught at home and never attended school. He decides to make up for it by masquerading as a student at a small-town high school. At the school, he quickly gains a reputation as a prankster. Together with his classmates, he torments his...
Der Fischer vom Heiligensee
Character: Wolfgang von Döring
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Mystery Submarine
Character: Capt. Neymarck
A British convoy is trying to elude a group of German U-Boats....
Der Andere
Character: David Henderson
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Klettermaxe
Character: Max Malien, Schriftsteller
A masked hero scales the walls of buildings and relieves burglars of the money or valuables they've stolen. He donates the stolen goods to charity and turns the criminals over to the authorities. An exotic dancer falls madly in love with this hero whose face she has never seen. But who is hiding behind the mask?...
Carnival in Flanders
Character: Painter Johann Breughel
Flanders, Hispanic Monarchy, 1616. The inhabitants of the small town of Boom are busy organizing the annual local festivities when the arrival of the Duke of Olivares, who rules the country on behalf of the King Philip III of Spain, is announced. While the male citizens cowardly surrender to panic, the brave female citizens decide to become the best hosts the Spaniards can ever meet. (German version of the French film La Kermesse héroïque, 1935.)...
Freddy und das Lied der Südsee
Character: Siebzehnstern
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Little Friends
Character: Dr. Andermatt
At the age of three, little Wolfgang has lost his parents. Since then his uncle Eduard raises the boy. As a former concertmaster Eduard has recognized how gifted his nephew is and the boy learns the hard way. The 6-year-old must practice daily 6 hours at the piano and already impresses at famous music parties. When Eduard Fabricius breaks a leg after a concert in Lucerne and must go to the hospital, he can be persuaded by a pediatrician to grant some carefree vacation weeks in a manor for Wolfga...
The Devil's Daffodil
Character: Raymond Lyne
A Chinese detective breaks up a drug smuggling ring and tries to find the "Daffodil Killer". The drug smugglers had devised the ingenious method of smuggling heroin from Hong Kong in the stems of daffodils....
Brainwashed
Character: Hartmann
Werner von Basil, a Austrian intellectual, was captured by the Nazis in 1938. They want to break him to confess smuggling. Without any mental sustenance, the only thing left to keep his mind busy is an old tactics book for chess....
The Devil’s General
Character: Oberst Friedrich Eilers
The adaptation of the eponymous play by Carl Zuckmayer tells the story of renegade general Harras of the German Luftwaffe, who during WWII openly criticizes the Nazi regime. As a consequence, he is put under surveillance, and even imprisoned for a brief period of time. Still remaining outspoken, Harras realizes the horrific dimensions of this hopeless and injust war waged by Germany....
...und abends in die Scala
Character: Pierre de Motestant
The chorus girl Caterina Duval gets the chance of her life when hired as stand-in of a famous star. On the opening night Catarina is singing, dancing and stepping into the hearts of the audience....
Sleeping Car to Trieste
Character: Zurta
Spies pursue a stolen diary aboard the Orient Express....
Anna Karenina
Character: Alexis Karenin
Anna, the wife of government minister Alexis Karenin, visits Moscow to help straighten out a family quarrel. There, Count Alexis Vronsky falls in love with her. Television adaptation of a play based on Leo Tolstoy's novel by Marcelle Maurette....
The Growing Youth
Character: Knud Sengebusch, Abiturient
A psychological study of three girls who enter a boys' school to prepare for their final examination....
Miss Liselott
Character: Peter Wendt, Architekt
Aimless Bohemians are encouraged to find their salvation in Arbeit (Work) in this propagandistic Nazi era German production....
Geisterkomödie
Character: Charles Condomine
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Fritz und Friederike
Character: Henry de Voss
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Mach mich glücklich
Character: William Davenport, ihr Sohn
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All the Sins of the Earth
Character: Richter
Regine, a physician, loses her lover in a car crash and carries out an abortion; it's the beginning of her descent into hell....
The Song of the Hohe Tauern
Character: Peter Dahle
Austria, 1950s. Safety engineer Peter Dahle increasingly sees a personal enemy in the construction of the power station and the mountain of Kaprun. To protect his workers, he asks the experienced mountain guide Hans Tribusser for help. For the glockner king, the massive intervention in nature is tantamount to blasphemy and he refuses his support. This brings Dahle's former love onto the scene. The wealthy Barbara Fuller is able to change the nature lover's mind, but her intrusion into the men's ...
The Devil's Agent
Character: Inspector Huebling
German actor Peter van Eyck stars as Droste, a mild-mannered businessman who was an intelligence expert during World War II. When Droste runs into his old friend Baron Von Straub (Christopher Lee), the two rekindle a friendship that was interrupted by the war. However, when Von Straub asks Droste to deliver a small package to a friend in West Germany, the befuddled Droste is set up for a series of complicated spy games....
The Confession of Ina Kahr
Character: Dr. Pleyer
Told in flashback, the film recounts the events leading up to the killing of good-for-nothing Curt Jurgens. Warned by her friends and relatives that Jurgens is a bad job, impulsive Ina Kahr marries him anyway. His ceaseless philandering and abuse wears away at Ina to the point that she contemplates poisoning her husband......
Hotel Sahara
Character: Lt. Gunther Von Heilicke
World War II farce about the hotel of the title...
Die Rose von Stambul
Character: Achmed Bey
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Geliebtes Leben
Character: Joachim von Bolin
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Frau Irene Besser
Character: Dr. Heinz Werther
It was not until twelve years after the end of World War II that Irene Besser's husband, Martin Besser, long believed to be missing, returned from Soviet captivity. But the country and family have become unfamiliar to him. His wife Irene and her daughter Lotte built a new life all by themselves in the tough times of the post-war turmoil in the still young Federal Republic of Germany. With a lot of commitment and dedication, she runs her own department store today and has become an extremely succ...
Death Trap
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A young woman commits suicide. Her sister is not ready to let the death go without someone answering a few questions. Namely, was it really suicide, and where is the large amount of money her sister withdrew from the bank the day before her death....
Loser Takes All
Character: Hotel Manager
Bertrand, an accountant employed by a large London firm, is called to the office of the Managing Director, Dreuther, to explain a mistake in the accounts. Dreuther is highly impressed by the young accountant's skilful explanation of the error and, hearing that Bertrand is soon to marry his spirited young fiancée, tells him to spend the honeymoon not in Bournemouth, but Monte Carlo at the company s expense! However, events in the fabulous Mediterranean paradise do not work out quite as Bertrand h...
Foxhole in Cairo
Character: Field Marshal Rommel
A German spy in Cairo must report back to Rommel with information on British positions....
The Shadow Battalion
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Dreams, hopes and passions of the inhabitants of a populous and humble tenement in Madrid. Among them, an inventor who invents always what is already invented, a composer, a hostess, a locksmith, a delivery of a pastry ......
Let George Do It!
Character: German radio operator
Shortly after the start of World War II, a ukelele player (George) takes the wrong boat and finds himself in (still uninvaded) Norway. He is mistaken for a fellow British intelligence agent by a woman (Mary), and becomes involved in trying to defeat Nazi agents....
Convoy
Character: Commander U.37
A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII....
The Guns of Navarone
Character: Commandant
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers....
The Big Blockade
Character: Gunter
Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war....
Frieda
Character: Richard
An RAF pilot who was shot down during WWII returns home to his English village with his new bride. The trouble is that she is the German lady who helped him escape....
Victoria the Great
Character: (uncredited)
The film biography of Queen Victoria focussing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule after Albert's death in 1861....
The Young Mr. Pitt
Character: Talleyrand
This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24....
Die vom Niederrhein
Character: Hans Steinherr
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Jeannie
Character: Count Erich von Wittgenstein
Based on Aimee Stuart's play. Little Scots girl decides to use her inheritance for a "grand tour" of the Continent....
Das Haus der Vergeltung
Character: Major Shales
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Nacht der Entscheidung
Character: Albert Vernon
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Es tut sich was um Mitternacht
Character: Nikolaus 'Nicki' Durmann
Film by Stemmle....
Annemarie, the Bride of the Company
Character: Fähnrich Werner v. Schumann
A military comedy in which Annemarie is the center of attention....
Heimweh nach Deutschland
Character: Fred Berger
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Spy for a Day
Character: Captain Hausemann
During World War I, a British farmer is abducted by the Germans to take the place of a spy about to be executed whom he closely resembles....
The New Lot
Character: Czech Soldier
A new batch of Army recruits, from diverse backgrounds and with varying degrees of commitment, is shaped into an efficient fighting unit....
Night Train to Munich
Character: Paul - KL Guard (uncredited)
Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England; but those who need to put his knowledge at the service of the Nazi war machine, in order to carry out their evil plans of destruction, will stop at nothing to capture him....
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Character: von Ritter
General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. But it wasn't always this way. Flashing back to his early career in the Boer War and World War I, we see a dashing young officer whose life has been shaped by three different women, and by a lasting friendship with a German soldier....
Trouble with Jolanthe
Character: Wesemeier, der neue Lehrer
Comedy about a prize pig, who’s more than a tad responsible for the turbulent adventures in his small town....
African Gold
Character: Karl Du Val
The sky lights up and the desert comes alive on this desperate search for hidden millions....