Hans Heinrich von Twardowski
Hans Heinrich von Twardowski ( born May 5, 1898 in Stettin, † November 19, 1958 in New York City ) was a German actor.
Life
Twardowski 1919 delivered his acting debut at the Berlin Lessing Theater. He appeared in the twenties at various stages in Berlin as the German Theatre and the State Theatre, particularly in plays by Carl Sternheim and Arnolt Bronnen. In 1920 he published his book The Raging Pegasus, a collection of small, parodic essay.
As a student Alan, who is later murdered, he made his debut in the silent film classic The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Twardowski played mainly complicated, tragic characters like the love killer Florian in Genuine, the crook of hearing a young nobleman in Marizza, called the Smuggler Madonna or the insane Prince Otto Ludwig the Second, King of Bavaria.
At the beginning of the sound film era, he moved to the United States. After he had been involved in two German-language versions of Hollywood productions, he played in the thirties aristocratic Europeans in several English-language films. He also worked as a director and actor at the Pasadena Playhouse, at St. Felix Street Playhouse ( Brooklyn ), and from 1941 on Broadway.
On the screen Twardowski could last only occur in anti-Nazi films as German Uniform, so as an officer in the classic Casablanca or even as Reinhard Heydrich in Hangmen Also Die.