Born December 13, 1915· Solln, Germany [now Munich, Germany]
† Died June 18, 1982
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Born in the Munich suburb of Solln to a Hamburg trader and a French-language teacher, he first worked as a journalist before his actress wife encouraged him to pursue the stage, where he honed his craft in Vienna’s theatres. After a film debut in the mid-1930s, he appeared in several German productions during World War II and, despite a brief imprisonment for his anti-Nazi stance, emerged after th…
