Sig Ruman
Sig Ruman, actually Siegfried Albon Rumann, even Sig Rumann, ( born October 11, 1884 in Hamburg, † February 14, 1967 in Julian, California ) was a German-born actor in American films.
Life
Siegfried Rumann had his first engagement in 1904 at the Stadttheater Bautzen. In 1906 he went to Stettin, and from 1907 to 1912 he was part of the ensemble of the United Theater Kiel. 1912 to 1919 he played at the City Theatre Königsberg and 1919-1922 at the State Theatre Altenburg, where he also worked as a director.
On New Year 1923 Rumann came to the U.S. and played repeatedly on Broadway in New York. He made his first film The Royal Box (then in German ) in June 1929. Siegfried Rumann At that time, the in America in Sig Ruman Americanized, already 44 years old. It was only after 1934 turned the Hamburg regularly.
Its characteristic face made sure that he was one of the most well-known supporting actors in Hollywood. During the Second World War Ruman was repeatedly seen in the role unsympathetic German. To Be or Not Ernst Lubitsch in 1942 with Ruman as Colonel Erhardt ( " Concentration Camp Erhardt " ) is next to Ninotchka probably his most famous film. He was voiced here as well as in a number of other films of the actor Werner Lieven. In The Hitler gang, he embodied the end of 1943 the Reich President Paul von Hindenburg. His last ( tiny become ) film performance was on the beginning of 1966 in a comedy with Jerry Lewis.
Sig Ruman died in 1967 of a heart attack.