Siegfried Arno
Siegfried "Sig" Arno (actually Siegfried Aron , from 1940 also Sig Arno ; * December 27, 1895 in Hamburg , † August 17, 1975 in Woodland Hills , California ) was a German actor , comedian , singer and dancer .
Live and act
Arno attended the Talmud Thora secondary school in Hamburg and then trained as a fashion illustrator at the Hamburg School of Applied Arts . He was a member of the Hamburger Theaterverein and had his first employment at the city theater in Harburg and at the opera. After the First World War he worked in Hamburg, Prague and from 1921 in Berlin. In the same year he made his film debut in The Red Cat . Since the mid-1920s, Arno was constantly involved in film, mainly in comedies. Initially his younger brother Bruno Arno stood by his side.
The tall and lanky Arno with a pronounced nose formed a comedian duo with the corpulent Kurt Gerron several times . In Georg Wilhelm Pabst's Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney and Die Büchse der Pandora , Arno played minor supporting roles as a detective and theater manager.
With the start of the sound film, Arno made the leap to star in a series of grotesque comedies in the early 1930s: u. a. The one from the fairground , Moritz makes his fortune , The stork is on strike , A boiled-up boy , No celebration without Meyer , Around a nose and the most beautiful man in the state . At the time, Arno was known as the “German Chaplin”.
In 1933 he emigrated from Nazi Germany and worked at cabarets and theaters in the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Spain and Portugal. In 1939 he finally traveled to the USA, where he found employment as a supporting actor, e.g. B. in Wilhelm Dieterle's The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) and comedies such as The Great Dictator (1940), In Hell The Devil Is Losing (1941) and Abbott and Costello Among Cannibals (1942). Probably his best-known Hollywood role was Toto , the bizarre and talkative admirer of Mary Astor in Preston Sturges ' screwball comedy Breathless to Florida (1942). In addition, he hired himself as a draftsman and portrait painter and worked on Broadway, in 1954 at the Deutsches Theater New York. In 1956 Arno was brought to Vienna by Marcel Prawy and played there at the Vienna Volksoper in the musical Wonderful Town by Leonard Bernstein alongside Bruce Low and Olive Moorefield . Guest appearances took him abroad again, including to the FRG, where he received the gold film tape in 1966 for many years of outstanding work in German film.
Arno was married to the actress Lia Dahms from 1922 to 1932, to Barbara Kiranoff from 1934 to 1953, and from 1953 to the Austrian actress Kitty Mattern . His son Peter (born 1926) from his first marriage became a costume and set designer.
Awards in Germany
- 1966 German Film Award: Filmband in Gold for many years of outstanding work in German film
Filmography
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literature
- Kay Less : 'In life, more is taken from you than given ...'. Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. P. 76 ff., ACABUS-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8
- Klaus Gille: Arno, Siegfried . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 5 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0640-0 , p. 26-27 .
Web links
- Bio-filmography at CineGraph with discography
- Biography on film-zeit.de
- Sig Arno in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Siegfried Arno at filmportal.de
- Pictures by Siegfried Arno In: Virtual History
- Interview with Siegfried Arno in the online archive of the Austrian Media Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arno, Siegfried |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Aron, Siegfried (real name); Arno, Sig (name from 1940) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 27, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th August 1975 |
| Place of death | Woodland Hills , California |