Born February 2, 1883· Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Budapest, Hungary]
† Died February 12, 1955
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Emerging from a Budapest Jewish family, the son of a sculptor turned to acting at eighteen after penning sketches for local vaudeville under the pen name Szőke Szakáll, a reference to his distinctive blond beard. He quickly became a star on the Hungarian stage, then moved to Vienna in the early 1920s where he performed in Hermann Leopoldi’s Kabarett Leopoldi-Wiesenthal and helped define the Wiener…
