Albert Lieven

Acting

Albert Lieven

Born — Died

1906-06-23 — 1971-12-22

Place of birth

Hohenstein, Germany

Known for

Acting

Credits

71 titles

Known for

The Avengers poster
7.8

A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - teams with various assistants throughout the series' run, including Dr. David Keel, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King, to repeatedly save the world from diabolical schemes plotted by equally diabolical evil-doers (among them robots and man-eating monsters).

The Avengers

1961

No artwork available
NR

BBC anthology drama series that ran over four seasons and replaced the previous BBC Sunday Night Theatre series.

Sunday-Night Play

1960

The Guns of Navarone poster
7.3

A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.

The Guns of Navarone

1961

No artwork available
8.0

An anthology of single plays offering up adaptations of either of prominent stage plays or novels.

Festival

1963

Man of the World poster
7.2

Michael Strait is a world-renowned photographer whose assignments lead him into investigating mysterious goings-on amongst the rich and glamorous and intrigue from far-flung places as Iraq, French Indochina, and Algiers.

Man of the World

1962

No artwork available
7.5

Studio 4 is an anthology drama series utilising BBC Television Centre's Studio Four, and running for two series in 1962 on BBC One. It was envisaged as a sequel to Storyboard, a similar anthology series which had been transmitted the previous year.

Studio 4

1962

Film credits

1960s · 18 titles

The Guns of Navarone poster
7.3

A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.

The Guns of Navarone

1961

The Devil's Daffodil poster
5.8

A Chinese detective breaks up a drug smuggling ring and tries to find the "Daffodil Killer". The drug smugglers had devised the ingenious method of smuggling heroin from Hong Kong in the stems of daffodils.

The Devil's Daffodil

1961

Traitor's Gate poster
6.0

A wealthy businessman schemes to steal the valuable Crown Jewels from the heavily guarded Tower of London, but many tricky factors await, including a doppelgänger and a vessel escape on the Thames.

Traitor's Gate

1964

The Gorilla Gang poster
5.2

When another dead elderly gentleman is fished out of the Thames, Inspector David Perkins is convinced that the gorilla gang is active again. On a doll found with the body, characters of an African language are discovered. Together with Sergeant Pepper and language specialist Susan MacPherson, the search for the head of the gang begins.

The Gorilla Gang

1968

The Victors poster
6.2

Intercutting dramatic vignettes with newsreel footage, the story follows the characters from an infantry squad as they make their way from Sicily to Germany during the end of World War II.

The Victors

1963

The Devil's Agent poster
6.7

Droste, a mild-mannered businessman, was an intelligence expert during World War II. When Droste runs into his old friend Baron Von Straub, the two rekindle a friendship that was interrupted by the war. However, when Von Straub asks Droste to deliver a small package to a friend in West Germany, the befuddled Droste is set up for a series of complicated spy games.

The Devil's Agent

1962

Mystery Submarine poster
10.0

A British convoy is trying to elude a group of German U-Boats.

Mystery Submarine

1963

Foxhole in Cairo poster
6.6

A German spy in Cairo must report back to Rommel with information on British positions.

Foxhole in Cairo

1960

Death Drums Along the River poster
5.3

A British colonial policeman in Africa investigates a murder in a hospital up river.

Death Drums Along the River

1963

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hobby

1966

Brainwashed poster
7.1

Werner von Basil, a Austrian intellectual, was captured by the Nazis in 1938. They want to break him to confess smuggling. Without any mental sustenance, the only thing left to keep his mind busy is an old tactics book for chess.

Brainwashed

1960

Freddy und das Lied der Südsee poster
5.3

No synopsis available yet.

Freddy und das Lied der Südsee

1963

Anna Karenina poster
6.6

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.

Anna Karenina

1961

Das Haus der Vergeltung poster
NR

Magda wants to work as a nanny and asks her former teacher Miss Malleson for a commendation. The teacher refuses due to a dark secret in Magda's past. Magda abruptly proceeds to smear the teacher's reputation to get what she wants.

Das Haus der Vergeltung

1964

Conspiracy of Hearts poster
6.8

In wartime Italy nuns in a convent regularly smuggle Jewish children out of a nearby internment camp. The Italian army officer in charge suspects what may be going on but deliberately turns a blind eye. When the Germans take over the camp security the nuns' activities become far more dangerous.

Conspiracy of Hearts

1960

No artwork available
NR

In 1932, this crime moved the whole world. Colonel Lindbergh, the immensely popular Atlantic flight pioneer, had his son kidnapped and killed, although the parents met all the blackmailers' demands. A manhunt unparalleled in the history of the police remained unsuccessful for a long time. None of the many clues led to the perpetrator. Then the research assistant, Dr. Bernstein, had an ingenious idea...

Kidnap-Die Entführung des Lindbergh-Babys

1968

Frau Irene Besser poster
8.0

It was not until twelve years after the end of World War II that Irene Besser's husband, Martin Besser, long believed to be missing, returned from Soviet captivity. But the country and family have become unfamiliar to him. His wife Irene and her daughter Lotte built a new life all by themselves in the tough times of the post-war turmoil in the still young Federal Republic of Germany. With a lot of commitment and dedication, she runs her own department store today and has become an extremely successful businesswoman. Not only as a consultant, the lawyer Dr. Heinz Werther stand her more and more aside. It is becoming increasingly impossible for Irene to do justice to both, men and lover alike. She hopes that even without her, Martin will slowly find his way back in his homeland and open up perspectives for him..

Frau Irene Besser

1961

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Der Kronanwalt

1962

1950s · 15 titles

The Devil's General poster
6.9

The adaptation of the eponymous play by Carl Zuckmayer tells the story of renegade general Harras of the German Luftwaffe, who during WWII openly criticizes the Nazi regime. As a consequence, he is put under surveillance, and even imprisoned for a brief period of time. Still remaining outspoken, Harras realizes the horrific dimensions of this hopeless and injust war waged by Germany.

The Devil's General

1955

Desperate Moment poster
6.5

Story of a Dutchman's flight across post-war Germany trying to locate the man who alone can clear him of a false murder charge. (BFI Website)

Desperate Moment

1953

Subway in the Sky poster
5.9

Berlin provides the backdrop for this crime drama that centers on a military doctor falsely accused of dealing illegal drugs. Determined to prove his innocence, he escapes from the MPs and ends up holing up in the apartment his wife rented. He doesn't know that she has sublet the flat to a nightclub singer. When he finds out, he begs the singer to assist him. She is attracted to him and agrees. The doctor believes that his wife is behind the black-market dealings, but in the end, they find the real culprit.

Subway in the Sky

1959

Klettermaxe poster
5.7

A masked hero scales the walls of buildings and relieves burglars of the money or valuables they've stolen. He donates the stolen goods to charity and turns the criminals over to the authorities. An exotic dancer falls madly in love with this hero whose face she has never seen. But who is hiding behind the mask?

Klettermaxe

1952

Loser Takes All poster
6.0

Bertrand, an accountant employed by a large London firm, is called to the office of the Managing Director, Dreuther, to explain a mistake in the accounts. Dreuther is highly impressed by the young accountant's skilful explanation of the error and, hearing that Bertrand is soon to marry his spirited young fiancée, tells him to spend the honeymoon not in Bournemouth, but Monte Carlo at the company s expense! However, events in the fabulous Mediterranean paradise do not work out quite as Bertrand had envisaged...

Loser Takes All

1956

Hotel Sahara poster
5.8

In World War II, desert hotel proprietors Emad and Yasmin are caught between the warring armies and have to constantly shift their political allegiance to whichever army happens to control the area.

Hotel Sahara

1951

The Shadow Battalion poster
5.8

Dreams, hopes and passions of the inhabitants of a populous and humble tenement in Madrid. Among them, an inventor who invents always what is already invented, a composer, a hostess, a locksmith, a delivery of a pastry ...

The Shadow Battalion

1957

All the Sins of the Earth poster
7.0

Regine, a physician, loses her lover in a car crash and carries out an abortion; it's the beginning of her descent into hell.

All the Sins of the Earth

1958

The Song of the Hohe Tauern poster
8.0

Austria, 1950s. Safety engineer Peter Dahle increasingly sees a personal enemy in the construction of the power station and the mountain of Kaprun. To protect his workers, he asks the experienced mountain guide Hans Tribusser for help. For the glockner king, the massive intervention in nature is tantamount to blasphemy and he refuses his support. This brings Dahle's former love onto the scene. The wealthy Barbara Fuller is able to change the nature lover's mind, but her intrusion into the men's domain causes new disasters.

The Song of the Hohe Tauern

1955

The Confession of Ina Kahr poster
5.4

Told in flashback, the film recounts the events leading up to the killing of good-for-nothing Curt Jurgens. Warned by her friends and relatives that Jurgens is a bad job, impulsive Ina Kahr marries him anyway. His ceaseless philandering and abuse wears away at Ina to the point that she contemplates poisoning her husband...

The Confession of Ina Kahr

1954

The House of Intrigue poster
8.0

A radio operator for the British Army is captured in a Nazi-occupied Dutch city.

The House of Intrigue

1956

...und abends in die Scala poster
5.0

The chorus girl Caterina Duval gets the chance of her life when hired as stand-in of a famous star. On the opening night Catarina is singing, dancing and stepping into the hearts of the audience.

...und abends in die Scala

1958

Geliebtes Leben poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Geliebtes Leben

1953

Der Fischer vom Heiligensee poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Fischer vom Heiligensee

1955

Nacht der Entscheidung poster
9.0

A Belgian industrial magnate returns home after spending ten years in Siberia. There he learns that he has since been declared dead and that his wife has remarried.

Nacht der Entscheidung

1956

1940s · 16 titles

Night Train to Munich poster
7.2

Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England; but those who need to put his knowledge at the service of the Nazi war machine, in order to carry out their evil plans of destruction, will stop at nothing to capture him.

Night Train to Munich

1940

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp poster
7.5

General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. But it wasn't always this way. Flashing back to his early career in the Boer War and World War I, we see a dashing young officer whose life has been shaped by three different women, and by a lasting friendship with a German soldier.

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

1943

Convoy poster
5.6

A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.

Convoy

1940

Let George Do It! poster
6.2

Shortly after the start of World War II, a ukelele player (George) takes the wrong boat and finds himself in (still uninvaded) Norway. He is mistaken for a fellow British intelligence agent by a woman (Mary), and becomes involved in trying to defeat Nazi agents.

Let George Do It!

1940

Sleeping Car to Trieste poster
6.8

Spies pursue a stolen diary aboard the Orient Express.

Sleeping Car to Trieste

1948

The Young Mr. Pitt poster
6.2

In 1783 England, King George III appoints William Pitt only 24 years old, as PM. When members of Parliament refuse to take Pitt seriously, he calls for a general election and wins. Pitt works to reform England, focusing on rebuilding the navy while across the sea in France, Napoleon Bonaparte begins his conquest of Europe.

The Young Mr. Pitt

1942

Yellow Canary poster
5.4

In 1940 Sally Maitland is forced to leave England, ostracised as a Nazi sympathiser by everyone including her well-to-do family. On the ship to Halifax, Canada, she is courted by Polish aristocrat Jan Orloch and by awkward British navel intelligence officer Jimmy Garrick. She shows herself somewhat more amenable to Orloch's advances, and agrees to meet his mother in Halifax. Once there however, it becomes clear no-one is really who they say they are.

Yellow Canary

1943

The Seventh Veil poster
6.6

A concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory.

The Seventh Veil

1945

Beware of Pity poster
6.7

A paraplegic baroness mistakes a man's pity for love - and tragedy ensues.

Beware of Pity

1946

Jeannie poster
7.7

Based on Aimee Stuart's play. Little Scots girl decides to use her inheritance for a "grand tour" of the Continent.

Jeannie

1941

The New Lot poster
8.0

A new batch of Army recruits, from diverse backgrounds and with varying degrees of commitment, is shaped into an efficient fighting unit.

The New Lot

1943

English Without Tears poster
6.3

While Lady Christabel Beauclark, a bird fancier, is scurrying about demanding certain territorial rights for British birds from other countries, Her Ladyship's niece is falling in love with the family butler, Tom Gilbey. The birds are forgotten when war breaks out, and Gilbey now finds himself in love with the niece whose love was previously unrequited. Written by Les Adams

English Without Tears

1944

Spy for a Day poster
NR

During World War I, a British farmer is abducted by the Germans to take the place of a spy about to be executed whom he closely resembles.

Spy for a Day

1940

Marry Me poster
5.8

The stories of several individuals who consult a marriage bureau, including a peer of the realm, his butler, a lonely school teacher, a French girl on the run from a violent boyfriend, a country vicar, and a newspaper reporter, sent by his editor, to do an undercover story.

Marry Me

1949

No artwork available
9.0

Humorously using the arrogant and bumbling Mr. Proudfoot, this film serves a dual purpose of emphasizing the importance of obeying blackout hours, as well as easing the stress of the time period by encouraging laughter.

Mr. Proudfoot Shows a Light

1941

Frieda poster
5.6

An RAF pilot who was shot down during WWII returns home to his English village with his new bride. The trouble is that she is the German lady who helped him escape.

Frieda

1947

1930s · 9 titles

Victoria the Great poster
5.6

The film biography of Queen Victoria focusing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule after Albert's death in 1861.

Victoria the Great

1937

Charley's Aunt poster
7.5

Charley Wyckham and Jack Chesney pressure fellow student Fancourt Babberly to pose as Charley's Brazilian Aunt Donna Lucia. Their purpose is to have a chaperone for their amorous visits with Amy and Kitty, niece and ward of crusty Stephen Spettigue. Complications begin when Fancourt, in drag, becomes the love object of old Spettigue and Sir Francis Chesney.

Charley's Aunt

1934

I by Day, You by Night poster
6.7

A nightclub waiter and a manicurist share the same room, she sleeps there by night and he by day. They've never meet , but they can't stand each other. Then they meet by chance, not knowing who's who and fall in love.

I by Day, You by Night

1932

No artwork available
6.5

Seven men in peaceful Switzerland swear lifelong friendship while the rest of the world is at strife. A conflict arises when the daughter of one falls in love with the son of another.

Hermine and the Seven Upright Men

1935

No artwork available
7.0

Walter is in love with the 17-year-old Erika, but she raves for older, experienced men. When Walter and Erika visit his parents' estate after passing their exams, Erika shows increasing interest in Walter's father, Werner von Schlettow.

Eine Siebzehnjährige

1934

Annemarie, the Bride of the Company poster
7.0

A military comedy in which Annemarie is the center of attention.

Annemarie, the Bride of the Company

1932

Carnival in Flanders poster
8.0

Flanders, Hispanic Monarchy, 1616. The inhabitants of the small town of Boom are busy organizing the annual local festivities when the arrival of the Duke of Olivares, who rules the country on behalf of the King Philip III of Spain, is announced. While the male citizens cowardly surrender to panic, the brave female citizens decide to become the best hosts the Spaniards can ever meet. (German version of the French film La Kermesse héroïque, 1935.)

Carnival in Flanders

1936

The Growing Youth poster
5.7

A psychological study of three girls who enter a boys' school to prepare for their final examination.

The Growing Youth

1933

Miss Liselott poster
7.0

Aimless Bohemians are encouraged to find their salvation in Arbeit (Work) in this propagandistic Nazi era German production.

Miss Liselott

1934

Series credits

The Avengers poster
7.8

A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - teams with various assistants throughout the series' run, including Dr. David Keel, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King, to repeatedly save the world from diabolical schemes plotted by equally diabolical evil-doers (among them robots and man-eating monsters).

The Avengers

1961

No artwork available
NR

BBC anthology drama series that ran over four seasons and replaced the previous BBC Sunday Night Theatre series.

Sunday-Night Play

1960

No artwork available
8.0

An anthology of single plays offering up adaptations of either of prominent stage plays or novels.

Festival

1963

Man of the World poster
7.2

Michael Strait is a world-renowned photographer whose assignments lead him into investigating mysterious goings-on amongst the rich and glamorous and intrigue from far-flung places as Iraq, French Indochina, and Algiers.

Man of the World

1962

No artwork available
7.5

Studio 4 is an anthology drama series utilising BBC Television Centre's Studio Four, and running for two series in 1962 on BBC One. It was envisaged as a sequel to Storyboard, a similar anthology series which had been transmitted the previous year.

Studio 4

1962

Pater Brown poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Pater Brown

1966

The Necktie poster
8.1

A Scotland Yard inspector investigates the murder of a young model strangled with a necktie, uncovering a complex jewel heist ring in the process.

The Necktie

1962

Der Andere poster
9.0

Italian frogman and scientist Paolo Rocello is found dead on a houseboat. The owner of the boat, Mr. Cooper, has disappeared without a trace. The English boarding school town of Medlow is now in turmoil. Of all people, the likeable boarding school teacher David Henderson is increasingly suspected of murder. This is because Katherine Walter, the niece of Dr. Sheldon, saw him on the boat on the day of the murder. However, Dr. Sheldon himself also becomes a suspect. Inspector Ford and Sergeant Broderick are in the dark – until another murder occurs and a completely new perspective on the events emerges...

Der Andere

1959

Die Schlüssel poster
9.0

The London fashion photographer Eric Martin expects his brother Philip Martin to return from Germany after a longer period of military service. When he arrives, Philip Martin reports an accident in Hamburg. He should bring items from the victim's wife to Dublin. However, Philip Martin behaves strangely, so that Eric Martin doubts the story. In fact, his brother travels to the Royal Falkon Hotel in Maidenhead and rents a room there.

Die Schlüssel

1965

Wie ein Blitz poster
7.0

It all begins when the wealthy real estate shark Gordon Stuart is murdered in a lonely villa by his wife Diana and his closest collaborator Mark Paxton. When Mark wants to get rid of the corpse, it suddenly disappears. A nerve-wracking game of "cat and mouse" turns the perpetrators into victims. Inspector Clay investigates and soon stumbles across more corpses

Wie ein Blitz

1970

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Die Kriminalnovelle

1970