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Oscar Homolka EBB TIDE, Oscar Homolka, 1937 RAGE IN HEAVEN, from left, Oscar Homolka, Ingrid Bergman, 1941 THE WHITE TOWER, Alida Valli (front), Oscar Homolka (back), 1950 I REMEMBER MAMA, Oskar ...
Sabotage (1936) -- (Movie Clip) You Made London Laugh On location at the London zoo aquarium, financially motivated amateur terrorist Verloc (Oscar Homolka), having staged a blackout the night before, meets mysterious paymaster Vladimir (Austin Trevor), with a famous effect by director Alfred Hitchcock, in Sabotage, 1936.
Because of his heavy generically "European" accent and Slavic-sounding surname (not an uncommon one among Czechs or Slovaks), many people assumed Oscar Homolka was Eastern European or Russian. In fact, he was born in Vienna (then Austria-Hungary), the multicultural capital of a large multi-ethnic empire at the time.
Oscar Homolka was an Austrian Jewish film and theatre actor. Homolka started his career on the Austrian stage, before achieving success in Munich and Berlin. After the Nazi rise to power, he emigrated to Britain and later was one of many Jewish actors and theatrical people who fled Europe for the U.S.
Aug 14, 2023 · Oscar Homolka was an Austrian character actor who worked in the Berlin theater and film world. He was best known for his characterization of spies and villians. He worked first for Max Reinhardt's theater and began his film career in the mid 1920s.
Actor. Born in Vienna of Jewish parentage, he studied at the Royal Dramatic Academy in that city, and began as a stage actor before moving to Germany, where he continued his stage career whilst appearing in eighteen films, both silent and with sound. Following Hitler's rise to power in 1933, he went to England, where...
I Remember Mama: Directed by George Stevens. With Irene Dunne, Barbara Bel Geddes, Oscar Homolka, Philip Dorn. A young writer recalls her ups and downs of growing up as one of four children to Norwegian immigrant parents in 1910s San Francisco.
