(August 12, 1898-January 27, 1978)
Born in Vienna, Austria
Acted in ‘Tragedy of the Street’ (1927), ‘Sabotage’ (1936), ‘I Remember Mama’ (1948), ‘The Seven Year Itch’ (1955), ‘War and Peace’ (1956), ‘Funeral in Berlin’ (1966), ‘Billion Dollar Brain’ (1967) and ‘The Tamarind Seed’ (1974)

He performed dead drunk onstage once.
He became typecast as a menacing foreign officer or spy.
He had an uncanny resemblance to Leonid Brezhnev.
He was married four times.
He said, ‘In Europe I played Othello, but in American pictures I am just the mean fellow who leers at the little heroine and dies hideously in the end.’

He fled Germany when Adolf Hitler came to power.
His second wife died a few months after their marriage.
His film career survived the transition to sound.
He had a long successful stage career before appearing in films.
He became one of Hollywood’s most notable character actors.

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