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Irving Pichel
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Director, Actor Born: June 25, 1891 in Pittsburgh, PA Death: July 13, 1954 in Hollywood, CA Biography:"Irving Pichel" had wanted to be in the theater from childhood; one of his early buddies was future playwright George S. Kaufman. Pichel attended Harvard University and tried other lines of work, before acting finally won out. His pronounced Semitic features prevented Pichel from becoming a movie leading man in the white-bread 1930s, but he proved a valuable character player and villain in such Paramount films as Murder by the Clock (1931), "An American Tragedy" (1931), and "The Cheat" (1932). His deep, kindly voice tended to bely his bad guy characters, so Pichel had to become as proficient at vocal tricks as he was at character makeup. He was slated to star in the 1931 version of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1931), but director Rouben Mamoulien, complaining that Pichel would have been "Mr. Hyde and Mr. Hyde," chose "Fredric March" instead. Reviews were mixed on Pichel's subsequent portrayal of Fagin in... Full Biography
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