Born November 17, 1905· Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]
† Died March 5, 1967
27Roles★ 6.2Average rating
Emerging from a Russian-Jewish family in St. Petersburg, Mischa Auer was brought to the United States by his grandfather Leopold Auer after the civil war and began his performing career on the stage of Bertha Kalich’s Thalia Yiddish Theater in the 1920s. He entered Hollywood with a minor role in Something Always Happens (1928) and spent the early 1930s in a string of small, often uncredited parts…
