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August 12, 1898 - January 27, 1978 - Austrian actor.
Born in Vienna, the capital of Austria-Hungary. After serving in the Austro-Hungarian army during the First World War, Homolka studied at the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts, and began his acting career on the theater stage. Having achieved some success, he began to play in theaters in Germany, first in Munich and then in Berlin. In the same place, in 1926, he made his film debut in one of the silent films, and in total he appeared in thirty German films, including the country's first sound film.
After the Nazis came to power, Homolka moved to Great Britain, where he continued his acting career, starring at the same time with Hitchcock in the thriller Sabotage (1936). His further career was associated with work in Hollywood, where Homolka appeared in such films as "Seven Sinners" (1940), "Comrade X" (1940), "With a Light" (1941), "Top Secret" (1952), The Seven Year Itch (1955), Farewell to Arms! (1957) and Mad of Chaillot (1969). At the same time, on movie screens, he often got the roles of villains and Soviet spies, scientists and the military. In 1948, Khomolka was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in the melodrama I Remember Mom, and in 1956 for a Golden Globe for his role as Kutuzov in King Vidor's epic film War and Peace. In the mid-1960s he returned to England,
In 1967, for his outstanding contribution to German cinema, Homolka was awarded the special Deutscher Filmpreis .
Homolka was married four times. His first wife was German Jewish actress Grete Mosheim, with whom he was married from 1928 to 1937. His second wife, Baroness Valli Hatvani, was a Hungarian actress who died in 1937 four months after her wedding. In 1939, Homolka married the photographer Florence Meyer, daughter of The Washington Post owner Eugene Meyer. They had two sons, Vincent and Lawrence, but their marriage ended in divorce. His last wife was American actress Joan Tetzel, whose wedding took place in 1949. Their marriage lasted until Tetzel's death in 1977. The actor himself died three months later of pneumonia in Sussex, England, at the age of 79. He was buried with his last wife in the Fairworth village cemetery in East Sussex.
