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. (aged 68)

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

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

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

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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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