Lionel Royce began his career in theater in Vienna, Austria, in 1919, before moving to Berlin in 1925.
15 Facts About Lionel Royce
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Lionel Royce had an active film career in the United States, appearing in almost 40 films between 1938 and 1946.
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Lionel Royce was born in the city of Dolyna, in what is Ukraine, to Jewish parents.
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Lionel Royce entered the war as a private in 1914, and rose to the rank of lieutenant by the war's end.
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Lionel Royce retreated to a cabin he owned up in the mountains.
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Lionel Royce practiced at adapting their ways of speech and movement.
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Lionel Royce had obtained papers from one of the peasants he had been observing in the mountains.
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Lionel Royce began his American film career in 1938, with a small role in the epic, Marie Antoinette, starring Tyrone Power and Norma Shearer.
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Lionel Royce enjoyed a productive film career for the next 8 years.
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Lionel Royce began 1939 with a few small roles in films such as a German in Let Freedom Ring, and then was cast in the important role of Mr Bachspiegel in Broadway Serenade.
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Outside of film, in 1939 Lionel Royce joined the Continental Players, a theater group made up of refugees from the Nazi regime in Europe.
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Lionel Royce opened 1940 as Dr Rudolph Grosser, one of the suspects in the detective picture, Charlie Chan in Panama.
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Also in 1940, Lionel Royce was one of three henchman who try to subvert the mission of Fredric March in Victory.
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Lionel Royce closed out the year in the featured role of Colonel Zimmerman in the action film, The Son of Monte Cristo, starring Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, and George Sanders.
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In 2005 a biography about Lionel Royce was published in Germany titled The rats enter the sinking ship - the absurd life of Leo Reus, written by Gwendolyn von Ambesser, edited by Edition VA.