Career
In films since childhood in his native Germany, Kieling appeared in a few American films such as Alfred Hitchcock"s, where he played an East German agent brutally slain by Paul Newman"s character, and had a small role in $ (aka, The Heist, 1971), starring Warren Beatty. In a British film,, he portrayed the fictional Dutch detective Van der Valk several years before Barry Foster (another Hitchcock alumni) was cast in the same role for the British television series. He did much work on German television, including the first episode of Derrick ("Waldweg", 1974).
The best of his later roles was in the film, originally titled Abwärts.
In the German-language version of Disneys Alice in Wonderland he dubbed the Mad Hatter.