Finest hours
Finest hours: Derren Nesbitt as the hissable Nazi in Where Eagles Dare, “the least boring film ever made”
On his 90th birthday, we remember Derren Nesbitt’s scene-stealing six-and-a-half minutes as Sturmbannführer von Hapen in the Richard Burton-Clint Eastwood action classic Where Eagles Dare.
By David Parkinson
Finest hours: Derren Nesbitt as the hissable Nazi in Where Eagles Dare, “the least boring film ever made”