Biographies: Kurt Kasznar - Actor

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Austrian-American actor, born in Vienna on August 13, 1913, as Kurt Serwicher. He got married twice and did not have children. He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 1953 for Best Supporting Actor as well as a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor In A Musical. Among his works are Casino Royale (1967), The Happy Time (1952), and Kiss Me Kate (1953). He was born into a Jewish family, his father left them when he was young, and his mother married a Hungarian restaurant owner, and Kurt took his last name. While Kurt was working as a waiter in his stepfather's restaurant, he met the director Max Reinhardt, who taught him and trained him. He got a role in the 1924 film The King of the Circus. He began his theatrical work in 1931 at the Salzburg Festival and went to America in 1936 with the Max Reinhardt Company. He played 12 roles on Broadway, produced a musical that ended in failure before being drafted into the US Army during World War II, and was assigned to a photographic unit. He filmed the landing process in the Philippines and the surrender of Japan and its signing of the document of surrender on board the American aircraft carrier USS Missouri, and he was one of the first photographers of the ruins of Hiroshima and Nagasaki after they were bombed. After the war, he resumed his professional activities in cinema, theater, and television. He died in Santa Monica, California, USA on August 6, 1979, of cancer.

• 2 October 2022
• farah ashraf