Karl Lieffen
Actor
Biography
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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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Filmography
Otto - The Movie
as Flopmann 1985
Ship of the Dead
as belgischer Kripobeamter 1959
Rudy, the Racing Pig
as Buselmeier 1995
Heidi
as Sebastian 1968
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
as Osrick 1961
Aren't We Wonderful
as Obmann Wehackel 1958
The Man Who Walked Through the Wall
as Herr Hintz - der Dandy 1959
Piccadilly Zero Hour 12
as Lee Costello 1963
The Defector
as Major Windisch 1966
The Angels of the Street
as Radensky 1969
The Pirates of the Mississippi
as Doc Monrove 1963
Should a Schoolgirl Tell?
as Staatsanwalt Grundeis 1969
When Night Falls on the Reeperbahn
as Karlchen Dincke 1967
Nick Knattertons Abenteuer
as Nick Knatterton 1959
She Walks by Night
as Zuhälter 1959
Jack of Diamonds
as Helmut 1967