1. Martin Kosleck portrayed Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler's propaganda minister, five times, and appeared as an SS trooper and a concentration camp officer.
16 Facts About Martin Kosleck
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Martin Kosleck was born in Barkotzen in Pomerania, Germany, the son of a forester.
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Martin Kosleck became interested in acting at an early age.
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Martin Kosleck spent six years in the Max Reinhardt Dramatic School, particularly excelling in Shakespearian roles, and working in revues and musicals in Berlin.
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Martin Kosleck appeared in two more films in Germany in 1930, the science-fiction thriller Alraune and The Singing City.
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Martin Kosleck spoke out against both and decided to leave Germany in 1931 for Britain.
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In 1933, when Hitler and the Nazi Party came to power, because of his opposition to the Nazis, Martin Kosleck was placed on the Gestapo list of "undesirables".
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Martin Kosleck appeared in his first American film Fashions of 1934 starring Bette Davis.
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Many other German actors at the time resented being typecast as Nazis; Martin Kosleck, though, reveled in it as a way to get back at the Nazis.
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Martin Kosleck appeared on Broadway in The Madwoman of Chaillot in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
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Martin Kosleck appeared on television in episodes of numerous shows.
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In 1970, Martin Kosleck played General Mueller in the television comedy Hogan's Heroes, episode: "The Gestapo Takeover".
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Martin Kosleck suffered from a heart attack in the 1970s, and thereafter worked only occasionally, mostly in television.
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Martin Kosleck was in a relationship with fellow actor and German emigrant Hans Heinrich von Twardowski from the early 1930s until Twardowski's death in 1958.
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In 1947, Martin Kosleck married, in an unexpected act, the German actress Eleonora von Mendelssohn, who committed suicide in 1951.
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Martin Kosleck died at age 89, following abdominal surgery, in a Santa Monica convalescent home.