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Eric Pohlmann in the 1950s (2 of 3)

In 1954, in war drama, They Who Dare, Eric Pohlmann played a Greek submarine captain tasked with transporting commandos on a dangerous mission to an island to destroy two airfields. The captain, with Balkan accent, this time assuredly Greek, didn't give the commandos much confidence as to his reliability on returning to pick them up. The film starred Dirk Bogarde and Denholm Elliott.

In 1955, Eric Pohlmann appeared in 7 films and 5 TV programs. In the first film, Pohlmann played a man who claimed he could go without eating for 70 days in The Glass Cage or The Glass Tomb as it was later known. A glass cage was built to house him at a carnival sideshow, in view of paying customers, billing him as The Starving Man, where is claim is put to the test. It starred John Ireland and Honor Blackman. This film is a mystery drama. I guess changing the title to The Glass Tomb gives away who the murder victim was.

Also in 1955, he played a Producer in an American musical comedy, Gentlemen Marry Brunettes. The film stars Jane Russell and Jeanne Crain. Pohlmann does not sing in the film.

Eric Pohlmann also appeared as a guard in Quentin Durwood in 1955, a swashbuckling, action-adventure film. He basically plays the top henchman for the bad guys.

Eric Pohlmann was in 7 films in 1956, though the last 2 were uncredited. He also appeared in 6 TV programs.

Photo 1, he is a shady Nightclub owner in The Gelignite Gang, a British Noir film with a twist ending. It was renamed The Dynamiters, both awful titles.

Photo 2, as a prison camp Adjutant in 1956s Reach for the Sky, a biopic war film set in the RAF (Royal Air Force).

Photo 3, a small role in American film Lust for Life, the story of Vincent Van Gogh starring Kirk Douglas.

Photo 4, as a bad guy in crime drama House of Secrets, later known as Triple Deception.

Photo 5 and 6, as a bully theater owner in mystery High Terrace.

In 1957 Eric Pohlmann appeared in 7 films and 6 TV programs. Television is growing more popular and less movies are being made.

Photo 1. Pohlmann appeared in the crime drama The Counterfeit Plan playing a conspirator. The movie starred Zachary Scott and Peggie Castle.

Photo 2. He was in crime drama Interpol, aka Pickup Alley, about heroin smuggling starring Victor Mature and Anita Ekberg.

Photo 3. Fire Down Below, Pohlmann played a creepy hotel manager. The film starred Americans Robert Mitchum, Jack Lemmon and Rita Hayworth.

Eric Pohlmann played a Mexican Police Sergeant in crime drama Across the Bridge starring Rod Steiger.

Pohlmann's characters in many of these crime drama movies had accents and didn't make it through til the end.

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Mogambo (1953)

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Mogambo's set, 1952, Director: John Ford, IN CAST: Donald Sinden, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly, Clark Gable, Eric Pohlmann

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Carry On Spying (1964) Gerald Thomas

January 17th 2022

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The Saint: Teresa (2.4, ITC, 1963)

"We were very lucky you came along."

"We could have been marooned there for days!"

"I invariably turn up at the most opportune moment. I make a hobby of it."

#the saint #teresa #itc #1963 #leslie charteris #john kruse #roy ward baker #roger moore #lana morris #eric pohlmann #marne maitland #lawrence dane #marie burke #alexander davion #ricardo montez #paul whitsun jones #alan browning #frank olegario #george little #peter exposite #another lady name episode; a little more original than the previous entry (Judith) but let down by a general attitude of patronising #indifference to the episode's setting of Mexico; Simon's opening monologue about the divide between rich and poor feels pretty #off the mark when you consider he is literally a rich tourist treating the world as his playground. Lana Morris' Teresa is very lovely but #the episode leaves crucial questions unanswered (why are the police so concerned no harm should come to her? who exactly is #Marne Maitland's silent assassin working for?). old favourite Pohlmann has a lot of fun with his role as mysterious benefactor and onlooker #to a series of Saintly mishaps; Alan Browning has an all too short cameo as a cafe owner; and Canadian Lawrence Dane (who i just found out #died last month; RIP‚ his Scanners villain is truly unsettling) plays a Mexican bandit (alas this one is full if white people playing #Mexican characters‚ including Davion and Whitsun Jones who just played english filmmakers the episode before last)#to give an idea of the ridiculous task i set myself in watching this in transmission order‚ i don't think any 2 episodes of s2 have been on #the same disc in network's set so far. Starring the Saint was on disc 7 but there are still episodes on disc 3 i haven't seen yet..

Eric Pohlmann in the 1950s (3 of 3)

The late 1950s were a difficult period for the movie industry. Television sets were more affordable now and most households had one in their living room. In contrast, people were staying home for their nighttime entertainment and going out to see a movie much less. Therefore the movie producers were making less B movies. The actors and actresses who counted on the B pictures as star projects and possibly a stepping stone to A movies found themselves caught between going into television, which they saw as a step down and a career killer or staying in the movies and being less selective.

For character actors like Eric Pohlmann, it was an easy choice. Television offered a chance for extra work and the opportunity to earn a paycheck without putting in a lot of time. During the years 1958 and 1959, Pohlmann filmed 13 movies and 18 television programs, as teleplays or TV series episodes. Television had tight schedules so it was easy for him to set his schedule. Most of the movies he filmed during that time were small parts, usually one scene and he was done.

1957. Not Wanted on Voyage, comedy starring Ronald Shiner and Brian Rix. Eric Pohlmann was finally getting a comedy role after so many crime dramas.

1958. The Duke Wore Jeans, another comedy starring Tommy Steele and June Laverick. Pohlmann and a big role in this one. Elwyn Brook-Jones is the General.

1958. The Elephant Gun aka Nor the Moon by Night was an action-adventure film starring Belinda Lee, Michael Craig and Patrick McGoohan.

1958. The Man Inside is a crime drama starring Jack Palance, Anita Ekberg and Nigel Patrick.

1958. The Mark of the Phoenix is a crime drama starring Sheldon Lawrence and Julia Arnall.

1958. Alive and Kicking. Pohlmann played a Russian Captain in this comedy starring Sybil Thorndike, Kathleen Harrison and Estelle Winwood.

1959. Three Crooked Men, a drama starring Gordon Jackson and Sarah Lawson. Actually he played pretty big roles in these films. If the UK would put more than three names on the posters, he would've been named on the poster.

1959. The House of the Seven Hawks, a mystery adventure starring Robert Taylor.

1959. Espresso Bongo, a musical drama starring Laurence Harvey, Sylvia Syms and Yolande Donlan.

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Eric Pohlmann in the 1950s (1 of 3)

Earl Pohlmann was born in Vienna. His first screen appearances were in a handful of small roles in 1949 in the United Kingdom. I like how the British films don't try to hide that Eric is indeed a fat man, and with his booming voice, can play drama or comedy.

Eric Pohlmann played a bartender with no lines in BAFTA Award winner for best British Film, The Third Man in 1949 starring Orson Welles and Joseph Cotton. The film was set in Post-War Vienna, Pohlmann's place of birth. I think he probably left Vienna before World War II.

Among his 7 films in 1950, Eric Pohlmann played a small but memorable role in the BAFTA award nominee for Best Film, thriller State Secret, renamed The Great Manhunt, playing the Cable Car Conductor. He spoke only "Vosnian", a made-up language. The film starred Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Glynis Johns. Could he be wearing the same shirt he wore in the The Third Man?

Eric Pohlmann played a sophisticated criminal in 1950s Blackout, starring Maxwell Reed and Dinah Sheridan. He spoke English with a British accent in this one. It leads me to believe he lived in England well before he landed in the movies.

Eric Pohlmann speaks in a Balkan accent as a bartender in 1950s action thriller Highly Dangerous, set in an unnamed "Iron Curtain" Balkan Country. This starred Margaret Lockwood and Dane Clark.

Pohlmann is Manager, Bartender, Waiter of a French Night Club in 1952 drama, Hell is Sold Out. It stars Mai Zetterling, Richard Attenborough and Herbert Lom. Reviews show it wasn't a good film. And is that the same shirt again? Were there so few options for big men in England the 1950s.

Eric Pohlmann plays an overly chipper Chief of Police in the 1952 comedy His Excellency, which takes place in a British Mediterranian Colony. This is the first of 9 films Pohlmann appeared in in '52. But according to IMDb reviews, one actor ruined this film, Eric Portman. I had to check he didn't mean Pohlmann. Pohlmann did ham it up as he can do, but the reviewer did mean Portman, who was the star and didn't seem to get the memo, this was a comedy. Pohlmann speaks in his Balkan accent in this one.

Pohlmann plays a Boxing Promoter in this crime drama, thriller, 1952s Emergency Call, renamed The Hundred Hour Hunt. The story uses the boxing world as a setting for the drama.

Eric Pohlmann played a small part as the bartender in 1952s Oscar Nominated film Moulin Rouge, starring Jose Ferrer and Zsa Zsa Gabor.

To look butch, Eric Pohlmann shaved his hair close to play an African guide/Big Game Hunter in 1953s American Film Mogambo. This movie received a BAFTA nomination for best picture from any source. It also received Oscar nominations for both female parts, Grace Kelly and Ava Gardner. This film starred Clark Gable in the male lead.

Pohlmann played King George I in Disney's telling of Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue in 1953. It starred Richard Todd, Glynis Johns and James Robertson Justice.

Eric Pohlmann is once again a sophisticated bad guy in Blood Orange, renamed Three Stops to Murder, a 1953 Crime Drama. This film stars Tom Conway as Tom Conway PI. There must be some reason so many British films get retitled. I suppose it was because licensing rights or something like editting for TV when it was Broadcast on TV initially.

In 1954, Eric Pohlmann appeared in Forbidden Cargo as a member of a drug smuggling ring brought in by ship. He uses his Balkan accent for this one. He might be differentiating the accent. This one might be more northern. The film stars Jack Warner and Nigel Patrick.

Pohlmann plays an Arab Sultan in 1954s The Belles of St. Trinian's, a comedy starring Alastair Sim in two roles, one male and one female.

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chubby actors from British TV in the 1960s

Eric Pohlmann (2 of 3) These stills are from The Saint, S02 E04, Theresa.

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