Joseph Schildkraut Overview:

Character actor, Joseph Schildkraut, was born on Mar 22, 1896 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria). Schildkraut appeared in over 85 film and television roles. His best known films include The Life of Emile Zola, Marie Antoinette (1938), The Shop Around The Corner, and The Diary of Anne Frank. Schildkraut died at the age of 67 on Jan 21, 1964 in New York City, NY and was laid to rest in Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, CA.

MINI BIO:

Dashing, mustachioed Joseph Schildkraut came to Hollywood in the early twenties, and played lithe heroes. Sound Films cast him mainly as suave, irritable villains although there were also some good character roles, and for one of them, Captain Dreyfus in The Life of Emile Zola,  he won an Academy Award. He died from a heart attack. 

(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Illustrated Dictionary of Film Character Actors).

HONORS and AWARDS:

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Joseph Schildkraut was nominated for one Academy Award, winning for Best Supporting Actor for The Life of Emile Zola (as Captain Alfred Dreyfus) in 1937.

Academy Awards

YearAwardFilm nameRoleResult
1937Best Supporting ActorThe Life of Emile Zola (1937)Captain Alfred DreyfusWon
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He was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Motion Pictures.

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By Movies, Silently on Feb 28, 2013 From Movies Silently

He will always be Chevalier de Vaudrey to me… (1896-1964) Country of birth: Austria The basics: Son of esteemed actor Rudolph Schildkraut, a star of the Yiddish stage. was a star of both stage and screen. He made several films in Austria before he was cast... Read full article


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Joseph Schildkraut Quotes:

Otto Frank: Always remember this Anna, there are no walls, no bolts, no locks that anyone can put on your mind.


Prof. Hildebrand: There's no harm in a man looking his best.
Hendrik Manderson: It won't make any difference in your case.


[first lines]
Kraler: Mr. Frank. - Mr Frank?
Otto Frank: Kraler. - Mr. Kraler. Miep. My good friends.


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Joseph Schildkraut Facts
First non-American born actor to win an Oscar as "Best Actor in a Supporting Role" (The Life of Emile Zola (1937)).

In an in-depth article by Ken Dennis from the Fall 2008 issue of "Classic Images", it is said that Rudolph Schildkraut strongly disapproved of his son Joseph Schildkraut's interest in the theatre and insisted he follow a career in music. Joseph was determined, however, and his father eventually relented.

Played a victim of the Holocaust three times, in the original stage and film versions of "The Diary of Anne Frank," as Otto Frank, and in the Twilight Zone episode "Deaths-Head Revisited" as Becker. Although by then a US citizen, living and working in America during the time of the Holocaust, as a Jew, he lost many relatives to the Nazi terrors, something of which he didn't learn the full extent until after World War II.

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