"In 1976 he appeared in the screen adaptation by Tom Mankiewicz of the Jack Higgins novel "The Eagle Has Landed" as "Oberst" (Colonel) Kurt Steiner, the commander of a Luftwaffe paratroop unit disguised as Polish paratroopers, whose mission was to kidnap or kill the then-British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, alongside co-stars Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall, Jenny Agutter and Donald Pleasence.