Born July 23, 1916· Michendorf, Brandenburg, Prussia [now Michendorf, Germany]
† Died July 12, 2006
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Born near Potsdam and raised in St. Moritz, he studied at the London School of Economics and began a medical program at Columbia before leaving university to pursue acting, a decision that ended his father's financial support. After a dramatic near-death incident on the set of Sahara, he secured his first major screen credit in Mademoiselle Fifi (1944) and quickly became the third-most-requested m…