Born May 17, 1900· Plzen/Pilsen, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Plzen, Czech Republic]
† Died October 30, 1984
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Film history remembers Wolfgang Heinz (1900-1984) as the first mate aboard the Empusa in Nosferatu, but his true stage was the theater, on both sides of Europe's darkest century. Born David Hirsch in Vienna, son of a theater director, he left school at 17 to act, joined Berlin's Deutsches Theater in 1918 and debuted on screen in Die Geachteten (1919). A Communist Party member from 1930, he was dis…
