Carl Jaffe

Carl Jaffe

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, usually in supporting roles, and often with a war, crime or espionage setting. His more notable films include The Lion Has Wings, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Two Thousand Women, Operation Amsterdam and The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone. Jaffe's television credits included Danger Man, Dad's Army and Oh, Brother!.

  • Title: Carl Jaffe
  • Popularity: 3.746
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1902-03-21
  • Place of Birth: Hamburg, Germany
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  • Also Known As: Carl Jaffé
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Carl Jaffe Movies

  • 1959
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    Subway in the Sky

    Subway in the Sky

    5.5 1959 HD

    Berlin provides the backdrop for this crime drama that centers on a military doctor falsely accused of dealing illegal drugs. Determined to prove his...

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  • 1943
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    Squadron Leader X

    Squadron Leader X

    1 1943 HD

    Equipped with an RAF uniform, an English accent, a photograph of his "wife" and a packet of Players (cigarettes), a German agent is parachuted into...

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  • 1959
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    First Man into Space

    First Man into Space

    4.878 1959 HD

    The first pilot to leave Earth's atmosphere lands, then vanishes; but something with a craving for blood prowls the countryside...

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  • 1961
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    The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone

    The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone

    6.7 1961 HD

    Critics and the public say Karen Stone is too old -- as she approaches 50 -- for her role in a play she is about to take to Broadway. Her businessman...

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  • 1939
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    The Saint in London

    The Saint in London

    5.5 1939 HD

    Suave soldier of fortune Simon Templer gets mixed up with a gang of counterfeiters who've murdered and robbed an European count of 1,000,000 pounds....

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  • 1942
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    Uncensored

    Uncensored

    1 1942 HD

    During the Nazi occupation of Belgium during World War II, a Belgian resistance group revives the newspaper "La Libre Belgique" to expose and counter...

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  • 1956
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    House of Secrets

    House of Secrets

    5.9 1956 HD

    Police in Paris recruit an English ship's officer (Michael Craig) to help trap counterfeiters by joining them.

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  • 1939
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    Over the Moon

    Over the Moon

    5.3 1939 HD

    Young Jane Benson just about manages to make ends meet running the large family house in Yorkshire. In love with local doctor Freddie Jarvis, she...

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  • 1958
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    Escapement

    Escapement

    4.1 1958 HD

    An insurance investigator tumbles onto a series of similar deaths, by brain hemorrhage, of patients of a psychiatric clinic in France where therapy...

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  • 1953
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    Desperate Moment

    Desperate Moment

    1 1953 HD

    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)

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  • 1957
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    The Traitor

    The Traitor

    7 1957 HD

    One time members of a resistance group come together every year to remember their dead leader, betrayed to and executed by the Nazis. When it seems...

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  • 1956
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    The Hostage

    The Hostage

    5.7 1956 HD

    In this political thriller, set within an unnamed country, revolutionaries try to prevent their leader's execution by kidnapping the president's...

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  • 1945
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    The Man from Morocco

    The Man from Morocco

    5 1945 HD

    With the ending of the Spanish Civil War, a dispirited band of volunteers from the International Brigades seeks refuge in France. But on reaching the...

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  • 1950
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    Lilli Marlene

    Lilli Marlene

    5.6 1950 HD

    Lilli Marlene, a French girl working as a bar maid in her uncle's café in Benghazi, Libya, turns out to be the girl that the popular German...

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  • 1951
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    A Tale of Five Cities

    A Tale of Five Cities

    4.9 1951 HD

    An Englishman has been working in the US so long he now speaks with an American accent. He is drafted into the British Army during WWII but is...

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  • 1959
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    Operation Amsterdam

    Operation Amsterdam

    5.8 1959 HD

    When Germany invades Holland in 1940, a British intelligence officer and two Dutch diamond merchants go to Amsterdam to persuade the Dutch diamond...

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  • 1960
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    Man on a String

    Man on a String

    5.8 1960 HD

    U.S. spies catch a Moscow-born U.S. citizen helping spies, and they force him to counterspy.

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  • 1943
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    Warn That Man

    Warn That Man

    5.3 1943 HD

    At the height of World War II, the Germans discover that a certain British personage is to stay at the country house of Lord Buckley. They devise a...

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  • 1967
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    Battle Beneath the Earth

    Battle Beneath the Earth

    4.6 1967 HD

    Government officials discover a horrible plot: the Chinese are tunneling their way to the United States.

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  • 1965
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    Up Jumped a Swagman

    Up Jumped a Swagman

    4 1965 HD

    A dreamy Australian singer comes to London to seek his fortune and falls for a down-to-earth lass and a high-strung debutante at the same time.

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  • 1949
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    I Was a Male War Bride

    I Was a Male War Bride

    6.9 1949 HD

    After marrying an American lieutenant with whom he was assigned to work in post-war Germany, a French captain attempts to find a way to accompany her...

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  • 1950
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    The Dancing Years

    The Dancing Years

    5.2 1950 HD

    The episodic story of a composer of operettas, Rudi Kleiber, in in old Viennese days, and the two women in his life; Maria Zeitler, his sweetheart,...

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  • 1971
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    Fiddler on the Roof

    Fiddler on the Roof

    7.7 1971 HD

    In a small Jewish community in a pre-Revolutionary Russian village, a poor milkman, determined to find good husbands for his five daughters, consults...

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  • 1943
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    The Night Invader

    The Night Invader

    1 1943 HD

    Dick Marlow, a British agent, has parachuted into the occupied Netherlands to retrieve vital documents. Whilst on the trail of the papers, he poses...

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  • 1953
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    Appointment in London

    Appointment in London

    6.2 1953 HD

    Wing-commander Tim Mason leads a squadron of Lancaster bombers on almost nightly raids from England. Having flown eighty-seven missions he will...

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  • 1941
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    Gasbags

    Gasbags

    5.5 1941 HD

    It's war time London and the Crazy Gang (Flanagan & Allen, Nervo & Knox, Naughton & Gold) are doing their bit for the war effort by...

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  • 1940
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    An Englishman's Home

    An Englishman's Home

    1 1940 HD

    A German spy is dispatched to Britain to search out targets for a planned invasion.

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  • 1956
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    Satellite in the Sky

    Satellite in the Sky

    5.3 1956 HD

    A bomb dooms the first space satellite, manned by a selfless crew, a stowaway reporter (Lois Maxwell) and a mad scientist (Donald Wolfit).

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  • 1944
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    Two Thousand Women

    Two Thousand Women

    6.8 1944 HD

    During the Second World War, three downed English airmen hide out with women's internment camp in France.

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  • 1954
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    The Awakening

    The Awakening

    6 1954 HD

    "The Awakening" is a 1954 short drama film of Douglas Fairbanks Presents anthology series based on Nikolai Gogol's short story "The Overcoat".

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  • 1939
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    The Lion Has Wings

    The Lion Has Wings

    6.2 1939 HD

    This early, influential propaganda film blends documentary and studio footage to show the valiant efforts of the Royal Air Force to defend the...

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  • 1950
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    State Secret

    State Secret

    6.567 1950 HD

    Visiting in England, an American surgeon Doctor John Marlowe is decoyed to a middle European country, and discovers the operation he is to perform is...

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  • 1958
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    Rockets Galore

    Rockets Galore

    6 1958 HD

    The inhabitants of Todday are content to live their lives in peace and quiet, until, that is, the government decides their little corner of the world...

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  • 1953
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    Park Plaza 605

    Park Plaza 605

    5.2 1953 HD

    Suave private investigator Norman Conquest intercepts a secret message and meets a beautiful but foreign blonde lady in room 605 of the Park Plaza...

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  • 1958
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    I Accuse!

    I Accuse!

    6.1 1958 HD

    Alfred Dreyfus, a German-Jewish captain serving in the French Army, is falsely accused of treason and made a scapegoat for military espionage in an...

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  • 1940
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    All Hands

    All Hands

    1 1940 HD

    From a series of propaganda films made to raise awareness of the risks of idle gossip providing vital information to enemy spies and collaborators....

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  • 1967
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    The Double Man

    The Double Man

    6.2 1967 HD

    In a complex piece of espionage the Russian secret service attempts to kidnap a high ranking officer in the CIA and replace him with a double of its...

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  • 1938
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    Second Best Bed

    Second Best Bed

    7.5 1938 HD

    A newly married couple run into difficulty when the wife refuses to obey her husband.

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  • 1948
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    The Blind Goddess

    The Blind Goddess

    5.6 1948 HD

    Justice, the poets have it, is a blind goddess. Eric Portman stars as the lawyer defending a lord, Hugh Williams, accused by his secretary Michael...

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  • 1945
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    I Didn't Do It

    I Didn't Do It

    6.6 1945 HD

    Gormless George Trotter (George Formby) moves down from Manchester to the bright lights of London in search of fame and fortune on the stage - only...

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  • 1943
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    The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

    The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

    7.5 1943 HD

    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...

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  • 1955
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    Cross Channel

    Cross Channel

    5 1955 HD

    Charter-boat owner "Tex" Parker is framed on a murder rap by a gang of jewel-and-American currency smugglers operating from the coasts of England and...

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  • 1957
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    The Case of The Smiling Widow

    The Case of The Smiling Widow

    1 1957 HD

    From the case files of Scotland Yard, detectives investigate the mysterious death of Peter Adams, artist and possible forger.

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  • 1952
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    Ivanhoe

    Ivanhoe

    6.777 1952 HD

    Sir Walter Scott's classic story of the chivalrous Ivanhoe who joins with Robin of Locksley in the fight against Prince John and for the return of...

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  • 1956
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    Port of Escape

    Port of Escape

    5.4 1956 HD

    Two sailors dock in London in search of a good time. But when one of them fatally stabs a man during a scuffle in a bar, the pair flee the scene,...

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  • 1976
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    The Joke

    The Joke

    1 1976 HD

    Bendel is known for his practical jokes and his self-confidence. But when Dr Walden, one of his victims. takes him seriously, trouble ensues.

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  • 1940
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    Law and Disorder

    Law and Disorder

    1 1940 HD

    On the eve of WWII a young defence lawyer, assisted by his wife, invaigles his way into a gang of foreign saboteurs. Comedy thriller, ably executed...

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  • 1958
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    Behind Closed Doors

    Behind Closed Doors

    1 1958 HD

    Behind Closed Doors is an American drama series set during the Cold War hosted by and occasionally starring Bruce Gordon in the role of Commander...

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