37 Facts About Paul Henreid

Paul Henreid was an Austrian-American actor, director, producer, and writer.

Paul Henreid is best remembered for several film roles during the Second World War, including Capt.

Paul Henreid was born on January 10,1908, as Paul Georg Julius von Hernreid in Trieste, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Paul Henreid was the son of Maria-Luise and Karl Alphons Hernreid, a financial adviser to Emperor Franz Joseph I Born as Carl Hirsch, Karl von Hernreid converted from Judaism to Catholicism in 1904 due to anti-semitism in Austria-Hungary.

Paul von Henreid trained for the theatre in Vienna, over his family's objections, attending the Theresianische Akademie.

Paul Henreid had starring roles in the Vienna staging of the 1934 play Men in White and the play Mizzi.

Paul Henreid applied for membership, but was rejected because his father had been born a Jew.

In 1935, von Paul Henreid was cast in the Austrian film Jersey Lilly.

Von Paul Henreid went to London in 1937 to portray Prince Albert in the first British stage production of Victoria Regina.

In 1939, von Paul Henreid had a major supporting role as German teacher Max Staefel in Goodbye, Mr Chips.

In 1940, Von Paul Henreid performed in a minor role in the British musical comedy Under Your Hat.

Paul Henreid played a doctor in the 1941 Broadway play, Flight to the West.

Paul Henreid's first film for RKO was Joan of Paris, a 1942 war drama in which he played a Royal Air Force pilot trying to escape Occupied France.

Paul Henreid's role was that of a married man who meets the "spinster" Davis on an ocean voyage.

Also in 1944, Paul Henreid played a lead role in The Conspirators, about a Dutch resistance leader trying to escape Nazi agents in Lisbon.

Paul Henreid rejected another romantic lead with Davis in the 1944 film Mr Skeffington.

Paul Henreid briefly rejoined RKO to play a pirate with Maureen O'Hara in the studio's 1945 release, The Spanish Main.

Paul Henreid was cast again with Parker in the 1946 adaptation of the Somerset Maugham novel, Of Human Bondage.

Paul Henreid played Philip Carey, a medical student with a clubfoot.

Paul Henreid recounted that in the late 1940s, he participated in a protest by some Hollywood actors in Washington, DC against the anti-Communist excesses of the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

Paul Henreid produced the film noir Hollow Triumph in 1948.

Paul Henreid appeared in the 1949 adventure film Rope of Sand, playing a villain opposite Burt Lancaster.

In 1950, Paul Henreid made a low-budget film for Edward and Harry Danziger, So Young, So Bad, as a school psychiatrist.

Paul Henreid then went to France for the 1951 romance film Pardon My French.

Paul Henreid then returned to Katzman for the 1952 film Thief of Damascus.

Paul Henreid directed and played the lead role in For Men Only, a college drama about hazing.

Paul Henreid then went back to Katzman for the 1953 fantasy adventure Siren of Bagdad, playing a magician.

In 1954, Paul Henreid returned to MGM for his first film for a major studio since being blacklisted.

Paul Henreid played a minor role in Deep in My Heart, a biopic about the composer Sigmund Romberg.

Paul Henreid next moved to Columbia Pictures, where he appeared as a pirate captain in the 1955 film Pirates of Tripoli.

Paul Henreid made a cameo appearance in the 1956 comedy Meet Me in Las Vegas.

Paul Henreid appeared at this time on Broadway in the play Festival.

Paul Henreid directed the 1956 film A Woman's Devotion, in which he played a supporting role, Girls on the Loose, and Live Fast, Die Young.

In 1973, Paul Henreid returned to Broadway to perform in a revival of the George Bernard Shaw drama, Don Juan in Hell.

Paul Henreid married Elizabeth Camilla Julia "Lisl" Gluck in 1936; the couple adopted two daughters.

In 1992, at age 84, Paul Henreid died of pneumonia in Santa Monica, California after suffering a stroke.

Paul Henreid was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in Santa Monica.