Biography

Joined the Nazi Party, directed a Nazi propaganda movie and was a member of Hitler's Gottbegnadeten list.

Member of the ensemble of the Vienna Burgtheater, 1956 to 1962.

His first wife was the German actress Ursula Grabley, his second the Japanese actress and singer Michiko Tanaka.

From 1945 to 1950, he was manager of the Berliner Tribüne.

German leading actor, singer, writer and director, educated the Art Academy in Dresden. Initially wanted to study theology, but instead learned acting under Erich Ponto. He made his theatrical debut in 1922, thereafter playing youthful bon vivants and romantic leads, as well as performing in classic plays by Shakespeare and Shaw. In films, usually in charming roles, graduating to character parts after the war. Gave arguably his best performance as SS-Gruppenführer Schmidt-Lausitz in The Devil's General (1955).