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Sam Jaffe
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Actor Born: March 10, 1891 in New York, NY Death: March 24, 1984 in Beverly Hills, CA Biography:Nature obviously intended for "Sam Jaffe" to spend much of his screen career playing eccentric scientists and peppery little old men. As a child, Jaffe appeared in Yiddish stage productions with his mother, a prominent actress. He gave up the theater to study engineering at Columbia University, then served for several years as a mathematics teacher in the Bronx. He returned to acting in 1915 and never left, despite efforts by the more rabid communist-hunters of the 1950s to prevent the gently liberal-minded Jaffe from earning a living. Jaffe's now-familiar shock of wild, white hair was first put on view before the cameras in 1934's "The Scarlet Empress", in which he played the insane Grand Duke Peter (several critics compared Jaffe's erratic behavior and bizarre appearance to "Harpo Marx"). Still only in his mid-40s, Jaffe went on to play the centuries-old High Lama in Capra's "Lost Horizon" (1937). In... Full Biography
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