Joseph Schildkraut

Austrian actor

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Born:: March 22, 1895, Vienna, Austria

Died:: Jan. 21, 1964, New York City, N.Y., U.S.

Awards And Honors:: Academy Award (1938); Academy Award (1938): Actor in a Supporting Role

Married To:: Leonora C. Rogers (married 1963); Lillian Marie McKay (1932–1962 [her death]); Elise Bartlett (1922–1930)

Movies/Tv Shows (Acted In):: "The Greatest Story Ever Told" (1965); "Arrest and Trial" (1963); "77 Sunset Strip" (1963); "The Untouchables" (1963); "Sam Benedict" (1962); "The Twilight Zone" (1961–1962); "Dr. Kildare" (1962); "King of the Roaring 20's: The Story of Arnold Rothstein" (1961); "The Diary of Anne Frank" (1959); "Cameo Theatre" (1955); "Lux Video Theatre" (1955); "Armstrong Circle Theatre" (1954); "The Philip Morris Playhouse" (1954); "Omnibus" (1953); "The Web" (1953); "Schlitz Playhouse of Stars" (1953); "Personal Appearance Theater" (1951–1952); "Cosmopolitan Theatre" (1951); "Somerset Maugham TV Theatre" (1951); "Faith Baldwin Romance Theatre" (1951); "Sure As Fate" (1951); "The Ford Theatre Hour" (1949–1950); "The Gallant Legion" (1948); "Old Los Angeles" (1948); "Northwest Outpost" (1947); "Plainsman and the Lady" (1946); "Monsieur Beaucaire" (1946); "The Cheaters" (1945); "Flame of Barbary Coast" (1945); "The Parson of Panamint" (1941); "Meet the Wildcat" (1940); "Rangers of Fortune" (1940); "Phantom Raiders" (1940); "The Shop Around the Corner" (1940); "Pack Up Your Troubles" (1939); "The Rains Came" (1939); "Lady of the Tropics" (1939); "Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation" (1939); "The Man in the Iron Mask" (1939); "The Three Musketeers" (1939); "Idiot's Delight" (1939); "Suez" (1938); "Marie Antoinette" (1938); "The Baroness and the Butler" (1938); "Lady Behave!" (1937); "Lancer Spy" (1937); "The Life of Emile Zola" (1937); "Souls at Sea" (1937); "Slave Ship" (1937); "The Garden of Allah" (1936); "The Crusades" (1935); "Cleopatra" (1934); "Sisters Under the Skin" (1934); "Viva Villa!" (1934); "The Blue Danube" (1932); "Carnival" (1931); "Die Sehnsucht jeder Frau" (1930); "Cock o' the Walk" (1930); "The Night Ride" (1930); "The Mississippi Gambler" (1929); "Show Boat" (1929); "Tenth Avenue" (1928); "The Blue Danube" (1928); "The Forbidden Woman" (1927); "His Dog" (1927); "The Heart Thief" (1927); "The King of Kings" (1927); "Young April" (1926); "Meet the Prince" (1926); "Shipwrecked" (1926); "The Road to Yesterday" (1925); "The Song of Love" (1923); "Orphans of the Storm" (1921); "Theodor Herzl, der Bannerträger des jüdischen Volkes" (1921); "Der Roman der Komtesse Ruth" (1920); "Die schwarze Fahne" (1919); "Seine Durchlaucht der Landstreicher" (1919); "Für den Ruhm des Geliebten" (1916); "Das Wiegenlied" (1916); "Schlemihl" (1915); "Dämon und Mensch" (1915)

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Joseph Schildkraut (born March 22, 1895, Vienna, Austria—died Jan. 21, 1964, New York City, N.Y., U.S.) was an Austrian-born American stage, television, and motion-picture actor.

Schildkraut joined his father, the actor Rudolf Schildkraut, on his first American tour in 1910 and remained to study at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts (1912–13). He made his professional debut in Berlin in 1913 under Max Reinhardt and acted in Vienna from 1917 until he moved to New York City in 1920. His stage appearances in the United States included Liliom (1921; with Eva Le Gallienne) and Peer Gynt (1923) and continued through the 1950s.

Schildkraut acted in more than 50 films, beginning with Orphans of the Storm (1922) and including Cecil B. de Mille’s King of Kings (1927), in which he appeared with his father. The Man in the Iron Mask (1939), The Cheaters (1945), and The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) are among his other films. His best roles were as Dreyfus in the 1937 film The Life of Emile Zola (for which he won an Academy Award) and as Otto Frank in both the stage version (1955) and the motion picture (1959) of The Diary of Anne Frank.

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