- Contrary to his screen image as an excitable, explosive, emotional type, Auer was in reality a quiet, somewhat introspective scholar who spoke six languages: Russian, English, Italian, French, German and Spanish.
- His father was an officer in the Russian navy under Tsar Nicholas II. After the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, Mischa with his mother escaped to southern Russia. He got a job driving an ambulance during a typhus epidemic (which killed his mother). In 1920 his maternal grandfather found him and managed to bring him to the U.S.
- Was in five Oscar Best Picture nominees: Viva Villa! (1934), The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935), Three Smart Girls (1936), One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937) and You Can't Take It with You (1938), only the last of these won.
- Father of Mischa Auer Jr..
- HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 13 (Associated Press) - Actor Mischa Auer broke his right leg when he chased a prowler from his Encino home early today and fell trying to follow the man over a fence. ("Mischa Auer Breaks Leg Chasing Robber", The San Bernardino Daily Sun, San Bernardino, California, Wednesday 14 February 1945, Volume 51, page 1.).
- Children with Tillman: Anthony and Zoe.
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