Ludwig Donath

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Ludwig Donath (born March 6, 1900 in Vienna , † September 26, 1967 in New York City ) was an Austrian actor .

Life

Ludwig Donath began his stage career in 1919 at the Deutsches Volkstheater in Vienna. A year later he moved to the Münchner Kammerspiele , further stage stations were the Württemberg State Theater Stuttgart and various Berlin theaters.

After the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933 he fled to Czechoslovakia and played occasionally at the Municipal Theater of Moravian Ostrava . His last position was in the 1937/38 season at the Theater an der Wien .

After the annexation of Austria in 1938, he went to Switzerland and worked there in the film Füsilier Wipf , directed by Leopold Lindtberg . In 1940 he emigrated to the USA. There he began as a theater actor, from 1942 he received film roles.

During the war he mostly portrayed Nazis in anti-German propaganda films, he even played Adolf Hitler personally in The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler . After the war he got more personable roles, including in The Jazz Singer as the father of the title hero played by Larry Parks .

During the McCarthy era , he was accused of communist-friendly activities, so that he received no more film offers from 1953. Donath has now returned to the stage and played on Broadway in the plays The Dybbuk (1954), Abie's Irish Rose (1954), Die Möwe (1956), Only in America (1959), The Deadly Game (1960) and She Loves Me ( 1963). At the New York German Theater in 1955 he worked in Der Biberpelz . In addition, he worked in various television series in the 50s and 60s.

Only Alfred Hitchcock gave him an important film role again in his thriller The Torn Curtain . Donath, who had previously returned to the camera in several television productions, played the ingenious but unsuspecting GDR scientist Professor Lindt, from whom an American colleague, played by Paul Newman , coaxed an important formula.

Donath died of leukemia .

Filmography

  • 1945: Counter attack
  • 1946: The Devil's Mask
  • 1946: Gilda
  • 1946: The Jazz Singer (The Jolson Story)
  • 1946: Hated, Hunted, Feared (Renegades)
  • 1946: Escape from Devil's Island (The Return of Monte Cristo)
  • 1948: Sealed Verdict
  • 1948: Opium (To the Ends of the Earth)
  • 1949: To Life and Death (The Fighting O'Flynn)
  • 1949: The player (The Great Sinner)
  • 1949: The Lovable Cheat
  • 1950: The Killer That Stalked New York
  • 1950: Mystery Submarine
  • 1951: The Great Caruso (The Great Caruso)
  • 1951: Sirocco - Between Cairo and Damascus (Sirocco)
  • 1951: Journey Into Light
  • 1952: My Pal Gus
  • 1953: The Veils of Bagdad
  • 1961: Give Us Barabbas!
  • 1965: Diamond Raid (Too Many Thieves)
  • 1966: The Spy in the Green Hat
  • 1966: The Torn Curtain

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Kay Less: The film's large personal dictionary and www.cinema.de state September 26th as the date of death, IMDb and filmportal.de state September 29th.
personal data
SURNAME Donath, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1967
Place of death New York City