Paul Henreid Biography

Fast Facts

• Was the son of a baron
• Worked as a designer and translator at a publishing company while studying acting at night
• Was discovered by Max Reinhardt's managing director during an acting-school performance
• Had strong anti-Nazi sentiments, but portrayed a Nazi officer in Mad Men of Europe (1939) and a Gestapo agent in Night Train (1940)
• Became an American citizen in the 1940s
• Was blacklisted in the 1950s, so he transitioned from acting to directing
• Penned Ladies' Man: An Autobiography in 1984
• Has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
• Died one week before the 50th-anniversary rerelease of Casablanca (1942), the film in which he portrayed resistance leader Victor Laszlo