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Eric Pohlmann (German: Erich Pohlmann, 18 July 1913 – 25 July 1979) was an Austrian theatre, film and television character actor. Born Erich Pollak in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, he was a classically trained actor who studied under the renowned director Max Reinhardt. He appeared at the Raimund Theater, and supplemented his income by working as an entertainer in a bar. In 1939 he followed his fiancée, and later wife, the Jewish actress Lieselotte Goettinger (best known in the UK for playing the concentration camp guard in the war films, "Odette" and "Carve Her Name With Pride"; biography... MORE

Eric Pohlmann (German: Erich Pohlmann, 18 July 1913 – 25 July 1979) was an Austrian theatre, film and television character actor. Born Erich Pollak in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, he was a classically trained actor who studied under the renowned director Max Reinhardt. He appeared at the Raimund Theater, and supplemented his income by working as an entertainer in a bar. In 1939 he followed his fiancée, and later wife, the Jewish actress Lieselotte Goettinger (best known in the UK for playing the concentration camp guard in the war films, "Odette" and "Carve Her Name With Pride"; biography at http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0324493/bio), into exile in London. There he took part in propaganda broadcasts against the Nazis on the BBC. In order to earn a living, the Pohlmanns temporarily took positions in the household of the Duke of Bedford: Lieselotte as a cook, and Eric, as he was now known, as butler. After the war he began a career in the London stage. Among other roles he played "Peachum" in Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera. From the end of the 1940s Pohlmann was often present film and television productions, taking supporting roles in various adventure and crime films, LESS