"Kessler" reminded me of a TV adaptation of a Jack Higgins novel. (This might be seen as damning with faint praise.) Three members of "Lifeline" (the Belgian group that helped downed Allied flyers), appear only in the first episode, then the series shows an underwhelming West German security agent and an Israeli girl (played by a future Playboy model) tracking Kessler to South America where he meets other Nazis - the Kameradenwerk. At the inevitable confrontation, there's a prolonged debate about Kessler's philosophy and actions, during which the agent exclaims "words, just words; people are sick and tired of them", which prompted me to agree, so drawn out was the discussion.
With a cast comprising mainly C list actors, it's not difficult for Clifford Rose's performance to stand out. For nearly all the time he wears large-framed spectacles that obscure much of his face, and on the odd occasion when he removes them his face does not appear to have aged as much as the series' timeline might call for, but his movements are convincingly those of an old man. (He himself was then in his very early fifties.) He portrays a wide range of emotions: love for his dead wife (Madeleine) and his daughter, revulsion for the human experiments carried out by some of the Kameradenwerk, nostalgia for the Third Reich and dreams of a Fourth Reich.
With a cast comprising mainly C list actors, it's not difficult for Clifford Rose's performance to stand out. For nearly all the time he wears large-framed spectacles that obscure much of his face, and on the odd occasion when he removes them his face does not appear to have aged as much as the series' timeline might call for, but his movements are convincingly those of an old man. (He himself was then in his very early fifties.) He portrays a wide range of emotions: love for his dead wife (Madeleine) and his daughter, revulsion for the human experiments carried out by some of the Kameradenwerk, nostalgia for the Third Reich and dreams of a Fourth Reich.