Karl Lieffen
Birthday: Born in 1926-05-17 in Ossek (Ossegg), Czechoslovakia [now Osek, Czech Republic]
Deathday: 1999-01-13
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Karl Lieffen (born Karel František Lifka, 17 May 1926 – 13 January 1999) was a German film actor. He appeared in over 140 films on screen and television between 1949 and 1998. He was born in Osek, Czechoslovakia and attended drama classes at Brunswick and the Heer School of Music in Bückeburg. In 1946 he started his theatre career in Freiburg followed by engagements at the Hessian State Theatre in Wiesbaden, the Munich Kammerspiele and the Opern- und Schauspielhaus Frankfurt. In 1975 he joined the ensemble of the Bavarian State Theatre (Residenz Theatre) in Munich. From the 1950s on Lieffen became known to a wider public for his film appearances, like the role of brisk chauffeur Fritz in Billy Wilder's One, Two, Three. He died in Starnberg, Germany. Description above from the Wikipedia article Karl Lieffen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Das Kriminalmuseum
Character: Kornatzky
Das Kriminalmuseum was a German television series. It ran from 1963 to 1970 on ZDF and was one of its first programs. Each episode began with a tracking shot through an unspecified crime museum, stopping at one of the displays, whose story was then told. Each episode was between 60 and 75 minutes long and featured different actors as the criminal commissioner. The best known was Erik Ode, who in 1969 moved to Der Kommissar, appearing in 97 episodes. The theme music of the series was written by G...
Tatort
Character: Achim Otto
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland....
Kir Royal
Character: Toni Schultze
Kir Royal – Aus dem Leben eines Klatschreporters is a six-part television series by Helmut Dietl from the year 1986. This is a parody of the Munich newspaper, their gossip reporter Michael Graeter and Issuer Anneliese Friedmann. The series about the tabloid reporter Baby Schimmerlos plays in the Munich "Schicki-Micki" scene of the 1980s....
Die schnelle Gerdi
Character: Reporter
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St. Pauli-Landungsbrücken
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Dem Täter auf der Spur
Character: Inspecteur Janot
Dem Täter auf der Spur is a German television series....
Großstadtrevier
Character: Podgorsky
Follow the everyday work of a fictional police station on the Kiez of Hamburg....
Großstadtrevier
Character: Rostami
Follow the everyday work of a fictional police station on the Kiez of Hamburg....
Oliver Maass
Character: Eickelberg
Oliver Maass is a German television series....
Die Männer vom K3
Character: Albert Kröger
Die Männer vom K3 is a German television series....
Derrick
Character: Johannes Brusius
Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings....
Derrick
Character: Lagusta
Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings....
Der Alte
Character: August Ströbel
A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together....
Derrick
Character: Mr. Sparke
Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings....
Derrick
Character: Heinrich Gruga
Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings....
Derrick
Character: Albert Rabes
Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings....
Der Andro-Jäger
Character: Russischer Agent
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Die Harald Schmidt Show
Character: Self
The Harald Schmidt Show is a German late night talk show hosted on Sky Deutschland by comedian Harald Schmidt. The show first aired from 5 December 1995 to 23 December 2003 on Sat.1. Schmidt then moved his show to Das Erste as Harald Schmidt and Schmidt & Pocher, but he returned to Sat.1 on 13 September 2011. After cancellation on Sat.1, the show continued on Sky Deutschland in September 2012....
Forsthaus Falkenau
Character: Professor H. Bundschuh
Forsthaus Falkenau is a German television series....
Der ganz normale Wahnsinn
Character: Dr. Kornsack
It all starts with a minor rear-end collision. Gloria meets Maximillian Glanz in the process. Together with their mutual friend Lino, the two experience adventures that are as turbulent as they are insane......
Die Wächter
Character: Dr.White
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Irgendwie und Sowieso
Character: Weininger
Irgendwie und Sowieso is a German television series....
Nicht von schlechten Eltern
Character: Dr. Egbert Reckensihl
The Schefer family is moving from Kiel to Bremen. Wolfgang Schefer is a Captain in the German Navy and the Commander of the Navy base in Bremen. Sybille wants to get back to her old job--she was a teacher before she and Wolfgang had their first child, Felix. There is just one problem: she works at the same school attended by their children: Felix, Henrietta (Jenny), Moritz, and Alexander (Alex)....
Pater Brown
Character: Mister Level
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Tadellöser & Wolff
Character: Karl Kempowski
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Dalli Dalli
Character: Self - Candidate
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Locker vom Hocker
Character: Onkel Jonathan Wehmeier
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Zimmer frei!
Character: Self
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NDR Talk Show
Character: Self
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Es ist soweit
Character: Pelford
Janet Freeman (Gaby Jaeger), the daughter of the English nuclear researcher Clive (Jürgen Goslar) and his wife Lucy (Eva-Ingeborg Scholz), is kidnapped...
Der rote Schal
Character: James Bashwood
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Die Katze im Sack
Character: Blend
Vic Malloy discovers the letter of a girl in his letter tray. The shnodder detective has probably forgotten to open it some time ago. He now learns that the young millionaire should have come to life immediately after sending the letter. But who inherited the fortune? The sister who says in the letter that she should be in the violence of blackmailers. With his detective colleague Jack, Vic goes after the matter. They encounter a secret crime....
Movie Credits
One, Two, Three
Character: Fritz
C.R. MacNamara is a managing director for Coca Cola in West Berlin during the Cold War, just before the Wall is put up. When Scarlett, the rebellious daughter of his boss, comes to West Berlin, MacNamara has to look after her, but this turns out to be a difficult task when she reveals to be married to a communist....
The Defector
Character: Major Windisch
An American scientist is sent by the CIA to East Germany to retrieve a secret microfilm from a Soviet scientist interested in defecting to the West but the Stasi secret police's surveillance complicates matters....
She Walks by Night
Character: Zuhälter
Based on an actual post-war murder in Frankfurt, this standard docudrama by Rudolf Jugert is a serious treatment of the story as compared to the earlier, satirical film The Girl Rosemarie. The history of the case of Rosemarie, a hooker, and how she came to be strangled in her apartment is not completely clear. One of the suspects in the case was first charged, later acquitted, but never really free of an aura of culpability. British actress Belinda Lee plays the title role with her voice dubbed ...
The Angels of the Street
Character: Radensky
Angels of the Street or The Angel of St. Pauli is a 1969 West German crime film directed by Jürgen Roland and starring Horst Frank, Herbert Fux and Werner Pochath. It is set in the St. Pauli red light district of the port of Hamburg....
Aren't We Wonderful
Character: Obmann Wehackel
Kurt Hoffmann′s satire concerning Germany′s development during the first half of the 20th century tells the story of two schoolmates - Hans and Bruno. They could not be more different. While Hans is ambitious and must always work hard for his career, it seems that the happy go lucky Bruno is carefree....
Beautiful Adventure
Character: Fortuné Tallon
The teacher Dorothee Durand, young and single, travels from England to the picturesque south of France to find the remaining remnants of her family. Her search takes her to Nimes, where she meets the likewise single Marius, a hotelier, who immediately falls in love with the beautiful woman. And so it turns out that after traveling through half of France, Dorothy not only finds her relatives, but also ......
Jack of Diamonds
Character: Helmut
The protégé of a famous cat burglar reluctantly agrees to join forces with a lesser criminal in the daring heist of several famous jewels from a seemingly impenetrable vault....
When Night Falls on the Reeperbahn
Character: Karlchen Dincke
A crime reporter uncovers a lurid plot by a Hamburg gang to dose impressionable young girls with LSD in order to enslave them into prostitution. Featuring mad killers, psychedelic acid trips and ladies mud wrestling!...
The Pirates of the Mississippi
Character: Doc Monrove
European produced Western based on the novel by Friedrich Gerstäcker, set in the 19th century in a town on the banks of the Mississippi River. The area is plagued by a gang of pirates under the leadership of Captain Kelly, who live on an island in the river, from where they operate raids on passing steamboats and traders rafts, robbing them of their cargo and murdering the crews. Townspeople and settlers do their best to put an end to the crimes and rid themselves of the pirates and their daring...
Der Bettelstudent
Character: Major Wangenheim
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Verrückt und zugenäht
Character: Kralle Kaktus
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A Song Goes Round the World
Character: Pianist Schlange
A biopic of the singer and film actor Joseph Schmidt. The title is a reference to his best-known song and a 1933 film of the same title in which he starred....
Agatha, let the murdering be!
Character: Thomas Lorenzen
A black comedy about a female author of crime novels who becomes a victim of a macabre hoax....
Mensch, ärgere dich nicht
Character: Max
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Sharks and Little Fish
Character: Dr.Timmler
Four young German naval cadets begin their military service in 1940; only one of them will survive....
Die wilden Fünfziger
Character: Major Blaschenko
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Conny und Peter machen Musik
Character: Grossi, Osteria-Wirt
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The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi
Character: Santamaria
Florestan Mississippi, a public prosecutor by profession, visits a lady named Anastasia and, while drinking coffee with her, convicts her of poisoning her husband. At the same time, he asks for her hand in marriage, as he too has killed his wife with poison; the marriage is to be the "atonement" of the two poisoners. The four allegorical personifications in this comedy are, in addition to the loveless, absolute justice in the form of the prosecutor Mississippi, perfect equality, represented by t...
Götz von Berlichingen mit der eisernen Hand
Character: Court Assistant
During the time of the Peasants' Wars, the free knight Götz von Berlichingen gets into all kinds of private and political entanglements when he defends the Bishop of Bamberg. He is declared an enemy of the empire and ostracized as a robber. Insurgent peasants, of whom he becomes the leader, also betray him by attacking a town against the condition that no violence be used....
The Man Who Walked Through the Wall
Character: Herr Hintz - der Dandy
Mr. Buchsbaum, third class taxes employee, lives a peaceful life until the new chief immediately criticizes his work. His only confort is his stamps collection. Sadly, even this consolation and his peace are threatened by a new, charming, neighbour who teaches piano. Increasingly infuriated, he discovers accidentally one evening that he has the ability to go through walls. With this power, he decides to settle the scores, firstly with his boss who downgraded him....
Melody and Rhythms
Character: Herr Mattusch
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Nick Knattertons Abenteuer
Character: Nick Knatterton
Nick Knatterton has the reputation of being the true master of all detectives, which is due to the fact that - like Sherlock Holmes - he can combine razor-sharp and - if necessary - strike even harder. His secretary Trudchen Taste, who not only adores her boss but also repeatedly attracts negative attention by spreading stupid stories, is a great help to him....
Otto - The Movie
Character: Flopmann
East Friesian Otto moves to the big city Hamburg. There he gets into trouble with a loan shark and needs to find a way to impress his love interest Silvia....
Piccadilly Zero Hour 12
Character: Lee Costello
Mike Hilton served eight years in prison for being innocent. When he is released from prison early, he wants revenge on the men who were responsible. But the ex-commissioner in charge at the time, Jack Bellamy, has given in to drunkenness. And Mike's lawyer Cunningham continues to make crooked deals. He holds the key to solving the case. When Bellamy picks himself up again, he and Hilton are able to bring Cunningham and the gangster Whity to justice....
Rudy, the Racing Pig
Character: Buselmeier
Flat-dwelling urban family win a pig in a raffle, and decide to keep it. They lose their flat (no pets allowed) but eventually Rudi the pig makes good....
Die Sendung der Lysistrata
Character: Dr. Hellwig
Persuaded by Lysistrata, the women of Athens agree to withdraw all sexual favours from the men until the men agree to end to war with Sparta....
Ein Tag, der nie zu Ende geht
Character: McGlade
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Ship of the Dead
Character: belgischer Kripobeamter
After a line of mischief Philip Gale, an American sailor, is lured into hiring on the "Yorikke", a tramp cargo, by Lawski, a stoker from Poland. Still, the two become friends within the motley crew of losers from all nations. Gale and his new companion soon are more than disillusioned: the "Yorikke" is far from seaworthy and more of a coffin than a ship, work is close to slavery, and treatment by the officers and their subalterns is harsh and cynical. One day they make an alarming discovery in a...
Eva Only Kisses Directors
Character: Herr Fuchs
Unhappy accountant Karl has a crush on Eva who seems to prefer dates with execs. But real trouble ensues when he inherits his uncle's apartment and in its wake a group of shady characters involved in illegal business affairs....
The Waltz King
Character: Stieglitz
A look at the life of Johann Strauss, Jr., beginning when, as a boy, he earns his famous father’s displeasure when he tries his hand at composing. But he eventually proves to his father and the world that he is a fine musician....
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Character: Osrick
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer, his uncle....
When Worlds Collide
Character: Ein Staatsanwalt
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Eine Frau fürs ganze Leben
Character: Magier
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Stunden der Angst
Character: Hank Griffin
Glenn Gridffin, his brother Hank and Samuel Robish have escaped from prison. They choose Dan Hilliard's house, of all places, as a safe house. The reason: nobody would think of looking for the three gangsters in such a respectable house where middle-class people live. However, the entire family - father Dan, wife Ellinor, daughter Cindy and son Ralphie - are terrified. They are trapped in their own home. Meanwhile, the gangsters give the order for everything to go back to normal. Dan goes to the...
Rohe Ostern
Character: Opa Gustav
All hell has broken loose in the afterlife because the scatterbrained Schulz has killed his friend Frieder instead of the architecture student Sebastian. Frieder's soul rebels until the underworld agrees to give him a second chance. But first he has to persuade Sebastian to commit suicide....
Nägel mit Köpfen
Character: Industrieller
An art student takes revenge on a nasty financial shark for a prison sentence by "foisting" fake paintings on him...
Käpt'n Senkstakes Abenteuer - Ehrenhäuptling der Watubas
Character:
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Manolescu - Die fast wahre Biographie eines Gauners
Character: Untersuchungsrichter
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Die Brücke des Schicksals
Character:
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Der Schleier fiel…
Character: Populescu
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Should a Schoolgirl Tell?
Character: Staatsanwalt Grundeis
Schoolgirl Josefine learns from an early age to use sex to gain advantages. The school's gym teacher is arrested and accused of indecent behavior but the court dismisses the case when Josefine uses her female charm on the jurors....
Heidi
Character: Sebastian
Heidi is an orphaned girl initially raised by her aunt Dete in Maienfeld, Switzerland. In order to get a job in Frankfurt, Dete brings 5-year-old Heidi to her grandfather, who has been at odds with the villagers for years and lives in seclusion on the alm. He at first resents Heidi's arrival, but the girl manages to penetrate his harsh exterior and subsequently has a delightful stay with him and her best friend, young Peter the goat-herd....
Mikosch, der Stolz der Kompanie
Character: Stabsarzt
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Begegnung mit Werther
Character: Bursche
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Resurrection
Character:
Young Prince Nechljudov is summoned as a judge in a murder trial. A rich merchant was found dead in the room of the inn where he was staying and the prostitute Maslova was accused of the crime. Nechljudov recognizes in the woman the maid of the aunts he had seduced and abandoned years before and tries to convince the authorities of her of his innocence but to no avail. Convinced that he is responsible for her moral fall, he follows her to Siberia where she must serve her sentence....
Der Monat der fallenden Blätter
Character: Britischer Geheimdienstchef
When British philosopher Harold Hilliard took off for Warsaw to lecture on the Dysteleological Surd, he had no idea that he would soon become embroiled in international espionage. During the trip he tried to open a suitcase he mistook for his own. When a fellow passenger, a Pole with stainless steel teeth, took umbrage, Hilliard put it down to bad manners, but when the same man saw him pick up the wrong coat in the plane, Hilliard realized that he was suspected of spying. The party at the airpor...