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Paul Henreid - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography
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Paul Henraid - biography, date of birth, place of birth, filmography, clips, Actor, Director, Producer, Writer.
January 10, 1908 - March 29, 1992 - Austrian and American actor and director.
Born in Trieste (then Austria-Hungary) into an aristocratic family. He showed artistic inclinations early. He became a successful designer in a well-known art publishing house, but having attended a performance by Max Reinhardt with friends, he fell ill with the theater and began secretly (at night) attending the theater studio. In 1933 he became a student of Reinhardt himself. Moving in theatrical circles, he acquired leftist views, therefore, in 1934, after the pro-fascist government came to power in the country, he was forced to immigrate with his family (wife Lisle and two children) to France, then to England. After the start of the war, he, like all German anti-fascists, as a subject of a hostile state, had to be sent with his family to Germany. But he was saved by the famous actor Konrad Veidt. In England, the actor continued to play, including, playing the role of the two-faced Karl Marsen, in the 1940 film "Night Train to Munich" by the famous director Carol Reed, where he partners were English stars Rex Harrison and Margaret Lockwood. Either fearing that the authorities would change their minds, or tired of the same type of roles the fascists were offered to him - in 1940, the actor moved to the United States, in 1941 acquired American citizenship, and was filmed in Hollywood. Mostly in the roles of Europeans. The most famous role of that period - Victor Laszlo in "Casablanca" in 1943. But after he openly opposed the activities of the infamous Senator McCarthy Commission and was blacklisted - his acting career in Hollywood was over. It is not known how events would have developed further, but Alfred Hitchcock gave a helping hand to the actor, inviting him as a director to his detective series. A student of Max Reinhardt took up television directing with great pleasure, reached, in this capacity, great heights and received the second (the first was an acting) star on the Walk of Fame. Died of pneumonia.
