Quiz

Albert Lieven continued his career after the war in England as well as in Germany. Especially in Germany he could act in a whole string of well-known movies.

He is the grandfather of the England Rugby Union player Toby Flood.

When the National Socialists came into power he fled to England. There he was able to continue his career but he was often put into action for one-dimensional scoundrels which weren't a patch on him.

German actor, on stage from 1928, who fled the Nazis during the war years, only to portray Nazi menacers in British films.

Maternal grandfather of Newcastle and England rugby player Toby Flood.

Grew up in East Prussia. First acted on stage at the Hoftheater in Gera in 1928, subsequently in the ensemble cast at the Preussische Staatstheater in Berlin. Left Germany because of his Jewish wife, Petra Peters. In England from 1936, appearing on stage and featuring in BBC foreign service radio broadcasts. From 1939 to 1952, affiliated with the Rank Organisation as a character actor. On Broadway in 1948. Returned to German film and TV in 1952.

His family produced a dynasty of noted physicians. His father was a lung specialist.

He experienced again a height in his career in the 60's.

He appeared on the London stage in 1939 in the comedy Rake's Progress (Not the later Rex Harrison film of the same title), but was largely acting in films (among them The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, 1943). He appeared in many cinema productions, and in the year 1940, he was credited in seven, in all of which he played the role of a German.

With his roles in the Edgar Wallace movies "Das Geheimnis der gelben Narzissen" (1961), "Das Verrätertor" (1964) and "Der Gorilla von Soho" (1968)he became well-known to a new generation.

Owing to the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany and his wife Tatjana being Jewish, he moved to Britain in 1937.

He spent the years of the Second World War (1939 to 1945) though mainly in roles depicting Nazis in British films, not finding them overly challenging as an actor.

Father: Walther L. Liéven-Liéven; Mother: Elfride Schultz.

Father, with ex-wife Susan Shaw, of a daughter.

He was under contract to Rank for five years from 1945. It has been claimed that he only appeared in one film during this contract, Sleeping Car to Trieste. In fact, however, he appeared in several other films for companies controlled by Rank during this period, as part of his contract.