Born in Copenhagen, Hersholt first appeared in two Nordisk Film shorts in 1906 before emigrating to the United States in 1913, where he built a career that spanned silent and sound eras. He earned lasting recognition for his role as Marcus Schouler in Erich von Stroheim’s silent classic Greed (1924) and later as the kindly grandfather in the Shirley Temple vehicle Heidi (1937). From 1936 onward he…
