Karl Lieffen
Known for ActingBorn 1926-05-17 — died 1999-01-13Ossek (Ossegg), Czechoslovakia [now Osek, Czech Republic]
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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.
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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
The Defector
1966 · as Major Windisch
One, Two, Three
1961 · as Fritz
The Waltz King
1964 · as Stieglitz
Heidi
1968 · as Sebastian
Orientalische Nächte
1960 · as Pierre
Zweierlei Maß
1964 · as Lucio
Rudy, the Racing Pig
1995 · as Buselmeier
The Roaring Fifties
1983 · as Major Blaschenko
Ship of the Dead
1959 · as belgischer Kripobeamter
Schwiegerväter
1963 · as Philippe, Diener des Hauptmanns
Der Aufsteiger
1981 · as Antonic
Otto - The Movie
1985 · as Flopmann
Der Winterschläfer
1959 · as Kabinetts-Chef
Der Monat der fallenden Blätter
1968 · as Britischer Geheimdienstchef
When Worlds Collide
1961 · as Ein Staatsanwalt
Rohe Ostern
1996 · as Opa Gustav
Im weißen Rößl
1967 · as Sigismund Sülzheimer
Jack of Diamonds
1967 · as Helmut