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Karl Lieffen

Actor
Died January 13, 1999 (72 years)
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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.

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Known For
  • One, Two, Three
  • Holly - The Movie
  • The Defector
  • Tadellöser & Wolff
  • Jack of Diamonds
  • Heidi
  • Hamlet
  • The Kidnapping of Miss Nylon
  • Rudy, the Racing Pig
  • Should a Schoolgirl Tell?
  • Ein Mann geht durch die Wand
  • Die Engel von St. Pauli
  • She Walks by Night
  • Piccadilly null Uhr zwölf
  • Stunden der Angst
  • Adrian The Tulip Thief
  • Uneasy Summer
  • Die Flußpiraten vom Mississippi
  • Dem Täter auf der Spur
  • Oliver Maas
  • Rohe Ostern
  • Conny und Peter machen Musik
  • Mensch, ärgere dich nicht
  • The Phony American

Filmography

1996
Rohe Ostern · as Opa Gustav
1995
Rudy, the Racing Pig · as Buselmeier
1995
Against the Wind (TV Series) · as Herr Von Rebnitz
1994
Anna Maria (TV Series) · as Fahrlehrer Klotz
1994
Lutz & Hardy (TV Series) · as Hardy Van Bellen
1993
Not Bad (TV Series) · as Dr. Egbert Reckensihl
1989
Forsthaus Falkenau (TV Series) · as Professor H. Bundschuh
1988
War and Remembrance (TV Series) · as Dr. Grasse
1988
The men from K3 (TV Series) · as Albert Kröger
1986
Großstadtrevier (TV Series) · as Rostami
1986
Irgendwie und sowieso (TV Series) · as Weininger
1986
Kir Royal (TV Series) · as Toni Schultze
1986
Die Wächter (TV Series) · as Dr.white
1985
Oliver Maas (TV Series) · as Eickelberg
1984
Holly - The Movie · as Flopmann
1983
1983
Lass das - ich hass das · as Uncle Franz
1983
The Roaring Fifties · as Major Blaschenko
1982
Der Andro-Jäger (TV Series) · as Russischer Agent
1979
1979
Locker vom Hocker (TV Series) · as Onkel Jonathan Wehmeier
1979
1979
The Ordinary Madness (TV Series) · as Dr. Kornsack
1977
The Old Fox (TV Series) · as August Ströbel
1976
Zwickelbach & Co. (TV Series) · as Immanuel Zwickelbach
1975
Tadellöser & Wolff (TV Series) · as Karl Kempowski
1975
Lehmanns Erzählungen · as Sir Bernard
1974
Derrick (TV Series) · as Johannes Brusius
1974
1974
1972
1972
1970
Tatort (TV Series) · as Achim Otto
1969
1969
Should a Schoolgirl Tell? · as Staatsanwalt Grundeis
1968
Heidi · as Sebastian
1967
Jack of Diamonds · as Helmut
1967
Uneasy Summer · as Karlchen Dincke
1967
Dem Täter auf der Spur (TV Series) · as Inspecteur Janot
1966
The Defector · as Major Windisch
1966
Adrian The Tulip Thief (TV Series) · as Kaspar
1966
Pater Brown (TV Series) · as Mister Level
1965
Die Katze im Sack (TV Series) · as Blend
1964
Stunden der Angst · as Hank Griffin
1964
Die Gäste des Felix Hechinger (TV Series) · as Ernesto Caldo
1963
Piccadilly null Uhr zwölf · as Lee Costello
1963
The Waltz King · as Stieglitz
1963
1963
Das Kriminalmuseum (TV Series) · as Kornatzky
1961
The Phony American · as Moritz
1961
One, Two, Three · as Fritz
1961
1961
Die Sendung der Lysistrata · as Dr. Hellwig
1960
Hamlet · as Osrick
1960
Agatha, laß das Morden sein! · as Thomas Lorenzen
1960
Es ist soweit (TV Series) · as Pelford
1960
Conny und Peter machen Musik · as Grossi, Osteria-Wirt
1960
1959
She Walks by Night · as Zuhälter
1959
Ein Mann geht durch die Wand · as Herr Hintz - Der Dandy
1959
Ship of the Dead · as Belgischer Kripobeamter
1959
Beautiful Adventure · as Fortuné Tallon
1959
1959
The Kidnapping of Miss Nylon · as Nick Knatterton
1958
Aren't We Wonderful? · as Obmann Wehackel
1958
1958
Eva küßt nur Direktoren · as Herr Fuchs
1957
Sharks and Little Fish · as Dr.timmler
1956
The Beggar Student · as Major Wangenheim
1954
Disneyland (TV Series) · as Stieglitz

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