detective thriller, and Andamooka, about life on the Australian opal fields. Personal life He married German actress Marianne Hold whom he met whilst both of them were in Bangkok. His son is the singer Roderick Stafford, who was born in 1964. Death Stafford died in 1979 in a collision of two aircraft above Lake Sarnen, Switzerland. A Morane-Saulnier Rallye piloted by Czech-born Pavel Krahulec, M.D., and in which Stafford was a passenger collided with a Piper aircraft, piloted by businessman Alois Fischer of Thoune, Switzerland Films References External links 1928 births 1979 deaths Austrian male film actors Austrian people of Czech descent Czechoslovak male film actors American people of Austrian descent American people of Czech descent 20th-century Austrian male actors Carpathian German people