Fritz Feld

Fritz box (* October 15, 1900 in Berlin, † November 18, 1993 in Los Angeles, actually Fritz Feilchenfeld ) was a German - American actor. He was 72 years as a film actor.

Life

Fritz Feilchenfeld studied at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin, after he took against the wishes of his parents acting classes under the famous actor and director Max Reinhardt. During his training was field as Friedrich Feilchenfeld in Paul Wegener's The Golem film fun and the Showgirl his film debut. In 1920 debuted Fritz box, so his later stage name as a stage actor at Reinhardt and was for many years the assistant director. In the same year he was in a small supporting role in The Golem: How He Came to see in the world.

1929 emigrated field in the United States and went to Hollywood. There he met his twenty years his junior fellow actress Virginia Christine (Virginia Christine force; 1920-1996 ) know and love. They married in 1940 and from the common connection had two children. In 1937, he helped his brother Rudi Feld, art director and production designer, with an affidavit also to emigrate to the United States.

Field was seen almost exclusively in supporting roles, characteristic of him was his accent and since a film from the year 1947, a "pop " noise as he spoke. The first time he used this sound in the film If You Knew Suzie (1947). One of his most famous roles in his decades of film work is that of the humorless psychologists Lehman in Bringing Up Baby, later playing field in several Disney productions.

Field was the next several decades engaged in film and television work. In 1989, he finished his career with a small supporting role as a funeral director in the movie Homer and Eddie, 72 years after his first film. Fritz box died at the age of 93 years to a heart attack and was buried in the cemetery Mount Sinai Memorial Park.

Filmography (selection)

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