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Oskar Homolka
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12 August 1898 - 27 January 1978
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He was born on August 12, 1898 in Vienna. He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (1915-1917). Having started his acting career in Vienna, in the mid-twenties he received an engagement in Berlin, where he expected great success. A student of the famous director Max Reinhard, he became one of the most famous theater actors in Berlin during the Weimar Republic. Debuting in silent cinema, he soon established himself as a performer of the roles of negative heroes due to his harsh look and heavy
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He was born on August 12, 1898 in Vienna. He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (1915-1917). Having started his acting career in Vienna, in the mid-twenties he received an engagement in Berlin, where he expected great success. A student of the famous director Max Reinhard, he became one of the most famous theater actors in Berlin during the Weimar Republic. Debuting in silent cinema, he soon established himself as a performer of the roles of negative heroes due to his harsh look and heavy look from under thick eyebrows. The greatest expressiveness he managed to achieve in the films “The Adventures of the Ten Mark Notes” (1926, dir. Bertolt Wirtel) and “The Tragedy of Prostitutes” (1927, dir. Bruno Rahn). After the Nazis came to power in 1934, Gomolk moved back to Vienna, and the following year emigrated to Britain, where he soon played the saboteur Verlock in Alfred Hitchcock's thriller Sabotage (1936). The success of the picture opened his way to Hollywood, and in 1937 he moved to the United States. Acting in Hollywood films, he mostly continued to play negative characters, but he, as a strong character actor, was no less successful in comedic roles and characters that sympathize with the audience. He has appeared in films such as The Seven Sinners (1940, Tay Garnett), The Invisible Woman (1940, Edward Sutherland), and The Itch of the Seventh Sweat (1955, Billy Wyler). In 1948, Gomolka was nominated for an Academy Award for his role as rude Uncle Chris in the family drama I Remember Mom (George Stevens) as best supporting actor. Among his many roles is the commander Mikhail Kutuzov in the epic film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace (1956) directed by King Vidor. He also appeared on the television screen several times, in particular in small films from the series "Alfred Hitchcock Presents". Since the second half of the sixties, the actor often worked in the UK, where he starred in two spy films about secret agent Harry Palmer with the participation of a young Michael Caine: “The Funeral in Berlin” (1966, dir. Guy Hamilton) and “Brain for a Billion Dollars” (1967, dir. Ken Russell), as well as the drama “Mad from Chillo” (1969, dir. Brian Forbes) with Catherine Hepburn. Returning to the United States in the next decade, he appeared on television in the last years of his life. In addition to his film career, he also played on the Broadway stage, in London and in various European theaters. He died on January 27, 1978 in Sussex County, England.
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