Paul Henreid
Paul Henreid ( born January 10, 1908 in Trieste, Austria - Hungary, now Italy, † March 29, 1992 in Santa Monica, California; actually Paul Georg Julius Freiherr von Hernried ) was an American actor and director of Austrian origin.
Life
Born as Paul Georg Julius Freiherr von Hernried Knights of Wasel - Waldingau Henreid completed his acting training at the Vienna Conservatory and the local Max -Reinhardt-Seminar. His theater debut was in ibid as a student in Goethe's Faust. In his stage career engagements in Vienna, London and New York should follow.
In the early 1930s he was discovered by Otto Preminger in Vienna for the film. 1935 emigrated to England Henreid and 1940, came to the United States. Later he also received American citizenship. Both in England and in America Henreid continued to receive film roles, although he refused Nazi roles. Instead, he turned frequently opponents and victims of Nazism dar. He played in Between Two Worlds ( Between Two Worlds ) a young pianist who - like Henreid himself - fled from the Nazis to England to wait for a ship to America. His film Part commits suicide after the failure of the flight, however, and finds himself on a ship between two worlds together with victims of the last air raid again. But his most famous role should the resistance fighter Victor Laszlo in Michael Curtiz's Casablanca have been, even though it earned him little sympathy in the viewer, as Henreid end up with Ingrid Bergman can escape the Nazis by his side, while Humphrey Bogart gets nothing.
In addition Henreid often played elegant aristocrats, but also sensitive artistic natures as the pianist Clara Schumann Robert Schumann in the movie love ( Song of Love ). His last film role was the Cardinal in the second part of the Exorcist.
In addition Henreid also worked as a director, especially for television productions (such as individual consequences of the Western series Bonanza and The Big Valley ) from the 1950s. Appeared in 1952 crime film Cruel Richter ( Alternative title: The pity lots) and Strong and yobs (original For Men Only, alternatively The Tall Lie), in which Henreid as a producer occurred, the government took over and played the male lead.
Henreid was a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.