Stefan Artur Schnabel was a German-American actor who worked in theatre, radio, films and television.
17 Facts About Stefan Schnabel
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Stefan Schnabel portrayed Dr Stephen Jackson on the CBS daytime TV series Guiding Light for 17 years.
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Stefan Artur Schnabel was born February 2,1912, in Berlin, Germany.
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Stefan Schnabel was the younger son of classical pianist Artur Schnabel and contralto Therese Behr Schnabel.
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Stefan Schnabel had such proficiency in English that he was able to join The Old Vic repertory theatre company when his family emigrated to England after Hitler's rise to power.
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Stefan Schnabel studied with the Old Vic for four years.
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Stefan Schnabel made his debut in 1933 as an off-stage wind noise in The Tempest, and later played in Antony and Cleopatra, Major Barbara, As You Like It, and the 1937 production of Hamlet starring Laurence Olivier.
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In March 1937, Stefan Schnabel moved to New York and began working in radio.
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Stefan Schnabel joined Welles's Mercury Theatre repertory company and appeared as Metellus Cimber in its inaugural Broadway production, a landmark modern-dress production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar that evoked Nazi Germany.
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When Welles created the CBS radio series, The Mercury Theatre on the Air, Stefan Schnabel performed on episodes including the legendary broadcast, "The War of the Worlds".
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When Mercury Productions moved to the West Coast, Stefan Schnabel was one of the actors Welles cast in Heart of Darkness, the film he first proposed for RKO Pictures before settling instead on Citizen Kane.
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Stefan Schnabel made his screen debut in a subsequent Mercury production, the 1943 film, Journey into Fear.
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However, Stefan Schnabel was filmed in 1933 in a work that was completed in 2016 under the title Das Kalte Herz.
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Stefan Schnabel was in more than 60 films, including The Iron Curtain, Houdini, The Counterfeit Traitor, Firefox and Green Card.
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Stefan Schnabel served with the USArmy's Office of Strategic Services during World War II, broadcasting propaganda messages to his native Germany and working with the underground in England, Germany, France and the Netherlands.
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Stefan Schnabel portrayed physicist Hans Bethe in In the Matter of J Robert Oppenheimer, appeared in Tom Stoppard's adaptation of Schnitzler's Undiscovered Country, and was again on Broadway in Mike Nichols's production of Andrew Bergman's Social Security.
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In 1992 the couple moved to Rogaro, Italy where Stefan Schnabel died on March 11,1999, aged 87, following a heart attack.