The German born actor Albert Lieven was born on 23rd June 1906 in Hohenstein, as Albert Fritz Liévin-Liévin.
He started his acting career on stage in 1928, who fled the Nazis during the war years, only to portray Nazi menaces in British films. Owing to the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany and his wife Tatjana being Jewish, he moved to Britain in 1937. In Britain during WW2 he continued his acting career but he was often portrayed mainly in roles depicting Nazis in British films. During this period he also featured in BBC Foreign Service radio broadcasts. From 1939 to 1952, he was affiliated with the Rank Organisation as a character actor. He returned to German film and TV in 1952.
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. A typical example is the role he played in the 1940 production of Night Train to Munich where he played the role of a Concentration Camp Guard (pictured).
Some of the other British films that he appeared in include; Victoria the Great (1937), Spy for a Day (1940), Let George do It (1940), Mr Proudfoot Shows a Light (1941), The Big Blockade (1942), The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), English Without Tears (1944), The Seventh Veil (1945), Sleeping Car to Trieste (1948), Marry Me! (1949), The Dark Light (1951), Loser Takes All (1956), Subway in the Sky (1959), Conspiracy of Hearts (1960), Foxhole in Cairo (1960), The Guns of Naverone (1961), Mystery Submarine (1963), The Victors (1963) and Death Drums Along the River (1963).
He died on 22nd December 1971 in London.
He started his acting career on stage in 1928, who fled the Nazis during the war years, only to portray Nazi menaces in British films. Owing to the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany and his wife Tatjana being Jewish, he moved to Britain in 1937. In Britain during WW2 he continued his acting career but he was often portrayed mainly in roles depicting Nazis in British films. During this period he also featured in BBC Foreign Service radio broadcasts. From 1939 to 1952, he was affiliated with the Rank Organisation as a character actor. He returned to German film and TV in 1952.
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. A typical example is the role he played in the 1940 production of Night Train to Munich where he played the role of a Concentration Camp Guard (pictured).
Some of the other British films that he appeared in include; Victoria the Great (1937), Spy for a Day (1940), Let George do It (1940), Mr Proudfoot Shows a Light (1941), The Big Blockade (1942), The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), English Without Tears (1944), The Seventh Veil (1945), Sleeping Car to Trieste (1948), Marry Me! (1949), The Dark Light (1951), Loser Takes All (1956), Subway in the Sky (1959), Conspiracy of Hearts (1960), Foxhole in Cairo (1960), The Guns of Naverone (1961), Mystery Submarine (1963), The Victors (1963) and Death Drums Along the River (1963).
He died on 22nd December 1971 in London.
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