1. Torben Emil Meyer was a Danish-American character actor who appeared in more than 190 films in a 55-year career.
10 Facts About Torben Meyer
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Torben Meyer began his acting career in Europe before moving to the United States.
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For decades Torben Meyer found roles playing characters from many countries.
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Torben Meyer became a member of the "all-star peasant cast" in The Black Room, and considered Boris Karloff to be a good friend.
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Torben Meyer played the Dane in Murders in the Rue Morgue, and was strangled by Boris Karloff in Bride of Frankenstein.
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Torben Meyer was Gaston, the night watchman, in the 1958 film The Fly.
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Torben Meyer was in numerous Preston Sturges films, and addressed him as Maitre.
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In 1961, when Torben Meyer was 76 years old, he played Werner Lampe, an ex-Nazi judge on trial in Judgment at Nuremberg.
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On 22 May 1975 Torben Meyer died of bronchial pneumonia in Hollywood, California.
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Torben Meyer was cremated, and his remains are vaulted in the Chapel of the Pines.