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An Austrian actor, born in Vienna, Austria. Oscar Homolka was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the film I Remember Mama (1947) and for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in the film War and Peace (1956). He won the German Film Honorary Award for his contributions over the years to the advancement of German film. Oscar married four times and had two children. His credits include War and Peace (1956), I Remember Mama (1948), Ball of Fire (1941), and The Seven Year Itch (1955). Because of his heavy European accent, many assumed that he was from Eastern Europe or Russia. He often performed roles of villains including communist spies or military officers and scientists from the Soviet bloc. Oscar served in the Austro-Hungarian Army during World War I, and after the war, he graduated from the Imperial Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna in 1917. He worked in the Austrian Comedy Theater in Vienna, then moved to work in Munich in the German Theater in 1924. He then moved to Berlin, where he worked under the leadership of the famous director Max Reinhardt. He participated in many classic German and English plays, and in 1926, he began his participation in silent German cinema and talkies. His first talkie film was Dreyfus (1930). When the Nazis came to power, he moved to Britain, even though he was not Jewish, and made several movies. He then moved to Hollywood and kept moving between Britain and America, working in cinema, theater, and television. His last work was the romantic drama The Tamarind Seed (1974). He devoted himself to television work until he died of pneumonia at 79 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, United Kingdom, on January 28, 1978.
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