13 Facts About Rolfe Sedan

Rolfe Sedan began his career in show business as a vaudeville and nightclub performer and began acting in East Coast theatre.

Rolfe Sedan debuted on Broadway in 1916 and appeared in his first motion picture for Metro Pictures Corporation in 1921.

In 1922 and 1923, Rolfe Sedan was a featured actor with the Leith-Marsh Players in El Paso, Texas.

Rolfe Sedan became a prolific character actor in films and is probably best remembered by movie buffs as the hotel manager in Ninotchka starring Greta Garbo; he appeared in an uncredited role in the musical remake of Ninotchka, Silk Stockings.

Rolfe Sedan made uncredited appearances in several other Garbo films.

Rolfe Sedan appeared in another uncredited role as the Emerald City's Balloon Ascensionist in The Wizard of Oz.

Rolfe Sedan made uncredited appearances in bit parts in several films starring The Marx Brothers, with somewhat larger parts in Monkey Business and A Night at the Opera.

Rolfe Sedan returned to Broadway, performing in several different shows during the first half of the 1940s and in the 1950s began a sequence of guest roles in television series such as I Love Lucy, where he played the chef at a Parisian restaurant in "Paris at Last", The Jack Benny Program, and The Tab Hunter Show.

Rolfe Sedan was seen as the train conductor in the film Young Frankenstein, and in bit parts in two other Gene Wilder pictures.

Rolfe Sedan remained active throughout a career that spanned more than six decades.

Rolfe Sedan struggled to be accepted as an actor in radio, gaining his first role after six months of unsuccessful auditions, even though by then he had acted in films for 22 years.

Rolfe Sedan's initial broadcasting role came in an episode of Big Town when his voice best suited a specific part in the program.

Rolfe Sedan died in 1982 in Pacific Palisades, California, from heart problems at age 86.