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Gustav von Seyffertitz
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Actor Born: 1863 in Vienna, Austria Death: 1943 in California Biography:Satanic-featured Austrian actor/director "Gustav von Seyffertitz" not only looked like a villain, but with that three-barrelled name he sounded like one -- even in silent pictures. After a lengthy stage career in both Germany and New York, Seyffertitz began appearing in World War One films as the very embodiment of the "Hideous Hun" -- America's notion of the merciless, atrocity-happy German military officer. Allegedly to avoid persecution from the anti-German organizations of the era, Seyffertitz changed his professional name to G. Butler Cloneblough -- a monicker so satiric in its timbre that one can't help that the "rechristening" was the concoction of a clever press agent. Returning to his own name after the war, Seyffertitz remained busy as a "villain of all nations:" He was British criminal mastermind Moriarty in John Barrymore's "Sherlock Holmes" (1922), a torturer for the Borgias in Barrymore's... Full Biography
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