Jaro Fürth
Jaro Fürth ( * April 21, 1871 in Prague, † November 12, 1945 in Vienna; native Edwin Jaro Fürth ) was an Austrian actor.
Life
He studied law and took off late autumn of 1902 at the Vienna court actor Alexander Römpler at the Conservatory of the Society of Friends of Music acting lessons. He had his first theater performances in Scandinavia during a tour with pieces of Henrik Ibsen.
In 1905 he was engaged at the German National Theatre in Vienna. In 1920 he went to Berlin and turned into the busy silent film actor. The highlight of his career he reached in GW Pabst's film classic The Joyless Street as Councilor Rumfort, whose daughter was played by Greta Garbo.
As a Jew, he left after the rise of Hitler Germany in 1933 and moved to Vienna. In 1938 he was expelled from the Ministry of Arts, deported to Theresienstadt in 1942. He lived to see the liberation and returned to Vienna, where he soon died out.