Actor Eric Portman

Actor Eric Portman, who plays the nasty U-Boat Leutnant Hans Hirth to the hilt, appears 25 years later in other movie as an EX-Uboat man in "The Bedford Incident." Appearing as Commodore Wolfgang Schrepke of the West German Navy, Portman portarys the ex sub man assigned as a tactical aide to the manical Captain Finlander of the American destroyer, USS Bedford, chasing a rogue Soviet submarine.

As Schrepke, he appears lost in his thoughts...staring out at the dark waters of the Denmark Straits...thinking of the old days..."the Happy Time"...when the U-Boats prowled the Atlantic, looking for "prey." And of lost comrades, forever sleeping in the depths.