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Paul Lukas
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Actor Born: May 26, 1887 in Budapest, Hungary Death: August 15, 1971 in Tangier, Morocco Biography:Lukas trained for the stage at the Hungarian Actors Academy, and in 1916 he debuted on the Budapest stage. He soon became a local matinee idol, having appeared in many plays and films. He became well-known throughout Central Europe, and "Max Reinhardt" had him guest-star in Berlin and Vienna productions in the '20s. In 1927 "Adolph Zukor" brought him to the U.S., and from 1928 he made his career playing Continental Europeans in Hollywood films. At first he portrayed smooth, suave seducers; as age caught up with him he moved into villainous roles, and often played Nazis. His greatest acting triumph, however, came in an anti-Nazi role -- one of his few sympathetic parts at the time -- in "Lillian Hellman"'s "Watch on the Rhine" on Broadway (1941); he reprised the role in the play's film version (1943), for which he won the Best Actor Oscar and New York Film Critics Award. He continued appearing in... Full Biography
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