Rudolph Schildkraut

Known for

Acting

Born

April 27, 1862

Died

July 15, 1930 (aged 68)

Biography

From Wikipedia

Rudolph Schildkraut (April 27, 1862 - July 15, 1930) was an Austrian film and theatre actor.

Schildkraut was born in Istanbul, in the Ottoman Empire, to a Jewish family. His parents ran a hotel. He grew up in Brăila, Romania. In Vienna, he received acting lessons from Friedrich Mitterwurzer. He debuted in the early 1880s in Sopro, his first solid role came in 1885 in Krems.

In 1893 he moved to Vienna to an engagement at the newly opened Raimund Theater. In 1898 he moved to the Carl Theatre. Among other things, he played the character Wurm in Love and Intrigue. In 1900 he came to the German Theatre in Hamburg, 1905 to the German German Theatre in Berlin.

There he became one...