Albert Lieven
Albert Lieven was a German actor.
Early life
Lieven was born in Hohenstein, German Empire. His father was the head physician of the Tuberculosis sanatorium Hohenstein, where Lieven grew up. He started to study medicine but stopped the studies for financial reasons.Career
Lieven started his career at theaters in Gera and Königsberg. His first screen role was in the German film Annemarie, die Braut der Kompanie in 1932. During the next four years he appeared in another sixteen films, including the German film adaptation of Charley's Aunt.Owing to the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany and his wife Tatjana being Jewish, they moved to Britain in 1937. However, he spent the years of the Second World War mainly in roles depicting Nazis in British films, not finding them overly challenging as an actor.
Lieven appeared on the London stage in 1939 in the comedy Rake's Progress, but was largely acting in films. In 1943 he appeared in the West End production The Lisbon Story.
Lieven appeared in many cinema productions, and in 1940, he was credited in seven, in all of which he played the role of a German.
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. These included Marry Me!, which was made for Gainsborough Pictures, and Frieda, made for Ealing Studios, both of which were subsidiaries of Rank.
He returned to Germany in 1951, and appeared in many films made there. He also was in films both in Britain and Hollywood.
Family
Married four times, Lieven is the grandfather of the England rugby union player Toby Flood. Lieven died in London.Selected filmography
Annemarie, die Braut der Kompanie as Fähnrich Werner v. SchumannI by Day, You by Night as WolfKampf um Blond as Victor Ripening Youth as Knud Sengebusch, AbiturientDie vom Niederrhein as Hans SteinherrEs tut sich was um Mitternacht as Nikolaus 'Nicki' DurmannCharley's Aunt as Jack ChesneyKrach um Jolanthe as Wesemeier, der neue LehrerMiss Liselott as Peter Wendt, ArchitektTrouble with Jolanthe as Wesemeier, der neue LehrerEine Siebzehnjährige as WalterGlückspilze as Hans BerdingHermine and the Seven Upright Men as KarlMake Me Happy as William DavenportCarnival in Flanders as Johann BrueghelKater Lampe as Fritz Neumerkel – SchnitzergeselleA Woman of No Importance as Gerald ArbuthnotVictoria the Great as Minor Role The Deacon and the Jewess as SimonSpy for a Day as Capt. HausemannFor Freedom as FritzConvoy as U-Boat Commander U.37Let George Do It! as German Radio Operator Night Train to Munich as Concentration Camp Guard Neutral Port as Capt. GrosskraftMr. Proudfoot Shows a Light as GermanJeannie as Count von WittgesteinThe Big Blockade as German: GunterThe Young Mr. Pitt as TalleyrandThe Life and Death of Colonel Blimp as von RitterThe Yellow Canary as Captain Jan OrlockEnglish Without Tears as Felix DembrowskiThe Seventh Veil as Maxwell LeydonBeware of Pity as Lt. Anton MarekFrieda as RichardSleeping Car to Trieste as ZurtaMarry Me! as Louis The Dark Light as MarkHotel Sahara as Lt von Heillicke The Dubarry as Alfred CollienKlettermaxe as Max Malien Fritz and Friederike as Henry de VossDesperate Moment as Paul RavitchThe Rose of Stamboul as Achmed BeyBeloved Life as Joachim von BolinHomesick for Germany as Fred BergerSpring Song as Dr. AndermattThe Confession of Ina Kahr as Dr. PleyerThe Song of Kaprun as Peter DahleDes Teufels General as Oberst Friedrich EilersRipening Youth as Studienrat Dr. CrusiusThe Fisherman from Heiligensee as Wolfgang von DöringNight of Decision as Albert VernonLoser Takes All as Hotel Manager The House of Intrigue as MattThe Battalion in the Shadows All the Sins of the Earth as Judge' as Pierre de MotestantSubway in the Sky as CarlConspiracy of Hearts as Col. HorsteinBrainwashed as HartmannFoxhole in Cairo as Gen. Erwin RommelFrau Irene Besser The Guns of Navarone as CommandantThe Devil's Daffodil as Raymond Lyne- '