Paul Lukas
Gender: Male
Born: 26th May 1891
Died: 15th August 1971
Nationality: Hungary, United States of America
TV programs: Sure As Fate
Movies: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Confessions of a Nazi Spy, Deadline at Dawn, Experiment Perilous, Watch on the Rhine, Whispering City, 55 Days at Peking, The Lady Vanishes, Kim, The Ghost Breakers, Strange Cargo, Little Women, The Kiss Before the Mirror, Dodsworth, Samson and Delilah, Strictly Dishonorable, I Found Stella Parish, Address Unknown, Grumpy, The Monster and the Girl, Secret of the Blue Room, The Three Musketeers, Downstairs, Uncertain Glory, Rockabye, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Fun in Acapulco, Lord Jim, Sing, Sinner, Sing, Glamour, Brief Ecstasy, The Chinese Bungalow, By Candlelight, Manhattan Cocktail, A Window in London, Unfaithful, Age of Indiscretion, The Casino Murder Case, The Fountain, Espionage, Don't Be a Sucker!
Paul Lukas (May 26, 1891 – August 15, 1971) was an Austrian-Hungarian-born actor.
Lukas was born Pál Lukács in Budapest, the son of Naria (née Zilahy) and Janos Lukacs, an advertising executive. His family was Jewish.
Lukas made his stage debut in Budapest in 1916 and his film debut in 1917. At first, he played elegant, smooth womanizers, but increasingly he became typecast as a villain. He had a successful stage and film career in Hungary, Germany and Austria where he worked with Max Reinhardt. He arrived in Hollywood in 1927 and became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1933.
He was busy in the 1930s, appearing in such films as the melodrama Rockabye, the crime caper Grumpy, Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes, the comedy Ladies in Love, and the drama Dodsworth. He followed William Powell and Basil Rathbone portraying the series detective Philo Vance, a cosmopolitan New Yorker, once in 1935 in The Casino Murder Case, but his major role came in 1943's Watch on the Rhine, when he played a man working against the Nazis (he had played the same role on Broadway in 1941). He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the role, winning out over luminary efforts as Humphrey
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