Carl Jaffe

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1902-03-21 (72 years old)

Deathday

1974-03-12

Place of Birth

Hamburg, Germany

Carl Jaffe

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Carl Jaffe (21 March 1902 – 12 April 1974) was a German actor. Jaffe trained on the stage in his native Hamburg, Kassel and Wiesbaden before moving to Berlin, where his career took off. In 1933 Jaffe changed his stage name to Frank Alwar, but in 1936, with the situation for Jews in Germany rapidly deteriorating, he made the decision to migrate to the United Kingdom. He remained in the UK for the rest of his life and enjoyed a prolific career, appearing in over 50 films and many television productions. Throughout his British career he was almost invariably cast as German or Central European characters, ...

Acting

1959

Subway in the Sky

as dt. Kriminalbeamter

1943

Squadron Leader X

as Luftwaffe Colonel

1959

First Man into Space

as Dr. Paul von Essen

1961

1939

1942

Uncensored

as Kohlmeier

1956

House of Secrets

as Walter Dorffman

1939

Over the Moon

as Michel

1958

Escapement

as Doctor Hoff

1953

Desperate Moment

as Cellblock Guard Becker

1957

The Traitor

as Stefan Toller

1956

The Hostage

as Dr. Pablo Gonzuelo

1945

The Man from Morocco

as German General

1950

Lilli Marlene

as Propaganda Chief

1951

A Tale of Five Cities

as Charlotte's Brother

1959

Operation Amsterdam

as Diamond Merchant

1943

Warn That Man

as Schultz

1967

1965

1949

I Was a Male War Bride

as Jail Officer (uncredited)

1950

The Dancing Years

as Headwaiter

1971

Fiddler on the Roof

as Isaac (uncredited)

1943

The Night Invader

as Count von Biebrich

1953

Appointment in London

as German General

1941

Gasbags

as Gestapo Chief

1956

Satellite in the Sky

as Professor Bechstein

1944

Two Thousand Women

as Sergeant Hentzner

1954

The Awakening

as The Tailor

1939

The Lion Has Wings

as Unnamed Character

1958

Rockets Galore

as Dr Hamburger

1950

State Secret

as Janovic Prada / Tugboat Captain

1953

Park Plaza 605

as Boris Roff

1958

I Accuse!

as Colonel Maximilian von Schwarzkoppen

1940

All Hands

as Captain

1967

The Double Man

as Police Surgeon

1938

Second Best Bed

as Georges Debonnet

1948

The Blind Goddess

as Johan Meyer

1945

I Didn't Do It

as Hilary Vance

1955

Cross Channel

as Otto Dagoff

1952

Ivanhoe

as Austrian Monk

1956

Port of Escape

as Ship's Officer

1976

The Joke

as Rabbi

1940

Law and Disorder

as Foreign Agent

1962

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