Anton Edthofer
Anton Franz Edthofer ( born September 18, 1883 in Vienna, † February 21, 1971 ) was an Austrian actor.
Life and work
He made his debut in 1904 at the intimate theater in Munich, then he has performed at the Linz city theater. In 1906 he transferred to Vienna's Raimund Theater, three years later to the National Theatre, with an ensemble cast member he remained until 1920. In the early 1920s he first played at the National Theatre and later at the German theater under Max Reinhardt. From 1923 he was alternately in Berlin and Vienna on the stage, from 1929 it belonged to the ensemble of the theater in the Josefstadt district, which was supposed to remain his artistic home until his death. At first, he succeeded in the subject of the youthful bon vivant and comic roles and later he established himself as a character actor and performed well on in classical pieces, as in modern dramas - among other things Hauptmann, Gorky, Wedekind or Shaw.
In 1912 he stood for the first time on camera, in a small role in the Vienna large-scale production of Luise Kolm The unknown. In 1918, he starred in Otto Kreisler's Ibsen adaptation of the ghosts Osvald. As the theater embodied Edthofer in silent film a wide Sprektrum of roles, he has worked with renowned directors - such as Otto Rippert, Fritz Lang, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, Karl Grune or Robert Wiene, starred in melodramas, thrillers and adventure films.
Important roles in the theater in the Josefstadt were of Malvolio in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, King Philip II in Schiller's Don Carlos, The Difficult von Hofmannsthal, Professor Henry Higgins in Pygmalion, the Pastor Manders in Ghosts, or Willy Loman in Arthur Miller death of a Salesman. One of his most enduring interpretations was the Baron in Maxim Gorky's The Lower Depths.
A violent affair connected him 1937 Thimig Helene, who was then married with Max Reinhardt and remaining in the United States after the Anschluss. After returning to Austria, the two were married in late July 1948. His wife survived him by three years.
Edthofers grave is located on the West Cemetery in group W, No. 1