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The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
1964
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John Wengraf (1897-1974) John Wengraf. A great number of Austrian and German actors were forced to flee their homeland during the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis in the late 1930s only to find themselves smack dab in Hollywood pictures playing thoroughly nefarious Gestapo commanders. Viennese performer John Wengraf was one such actor.
- January 1, 1
- Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
- January 1, 1
- Santa Barbara, California, USA
John Wengraf (23 April 1897 – 4 May 1974) was an Austrian actor. Early years. Wengraf was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. Career. Wengraf ...
John Wengraf. Actor: 5 Fingers. A great number of Austrian and German actors were forced to flee their homeland during the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis in the late 1930s only to find themselves smack dab in Hollywood pictures playing thoroughly nefarious Gestapo commanders. Viennese performer John Wengraf was one such actor. Born in 1897, his father was a theatre critic whose occupation ...
- April 23, 1897
- May 4, 1974
Emigrating to England in 1933 as the Nazis began their rise to power, Wengraf appeared unbilled in a couple of films there, as well as in some of the first BBC live-television shows ever presented but his career began to languish. In late 1941, however, he had the good fortune of appearing on Broadway with Helen Hayes in "Candle in the Wind" and decided to stay. The following year he headed ...
John Wengraf was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Wengraf began his acting career appearing in various films, such as the Humphrey Bogart drama "Sahara" (1943), "Strange Affair ...
May 10, 1974 · John Wengraf was leading man and director of the Vienna State Theater in the nineteenthirties and was a matinee idol in Europe in the twenties and thirties. After he came to tihs country in 1939 ...
John Wengraf was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Wengraf began his acting career appearing in various films, such as the Humphrey Bogart drama "Sahara" (1943), "Strange Affair" (1944) and "Tomorrow Is Forever" (1946).
