Arnold Marlé

Arnold Marlé, John Marlé, ( born September 15, 1887 in Berlin, Germany, † February 21, 1970 in London ) was a German actor and theater director.

Life

Marlé was at the age of 20 years his theater debut in Frankfurt an der Oder. Since 1910, he played for many years in Munich platforms such as the National Theatre and the intimate theater under the direction of Otto Falck mountain.

During his time in Munich Arnold Marlé 1919 debuted in the film. Until 1924 he was regularly occupied by the Munich production company, after which he again focused entirely on his stage work. In the last years of the Weimar Republic until his final season in Germany (1932 /33) he got a reputation as an actor, game director and chief producer (director) to the German Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, where he worked under the direction of Erich brick and Karl Wüstenhagen pieces staged. Among his most famous roles during this period included the Jew Suss in the cornfield version.

Arnold Marlé had to emigrate in 1933 for political reasons. One of imminent arrest, he eluded by fleeing to Prague, after the invasion of the Wehrmacht in March 1939, he emigrated to London, where Marlé in July 1939 with his wife, a niece of Sigmund Freud arrived. During the Second World War Marlé acted as spokesman for German-language broadcasts of the BBC and received from 1941 again rolls of film. Often he was as grumpy or opaque foreigners - busy - physician, scientist and as Lhama in the horror film Yeti, the Abominable Snowman. Until 1963, Marlé continued his film and television work, took place in London but also back on stage, so about 1959 in the play The Tenth Man.

Arnold Marlé has worked in the interwar period as a drama teacher, both in Munich (eg Carl -Heinz Schroth ) and in Hamburg (eg Peter Lühr ).

Filmography

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