Appeared on radio and stage with Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre, including theatre productions of "Julius Caesar" and "The Shoemaker's Holiday." Also appeared in Welles' musical adaptation of "Around the World in Eighty Days" called "Around the World" on Broadway, with music and lyrics by Cole Porter.
Featured in Laurence Olivier's first production of "Hamlet" and became a friend of George Bernard Shaw after appearing in a production of "Major Barbara."
He and his family left Berlin when the Nazi regime came to power in 1933. He eventually studied acting in London and the Old Vic Theatre.
He and his wife had lived for 45 years in Rowayton, Connecticut, USA, before moving to Rogaro, Italy, in 1992.
He and second wife Marion Kohler co-founded the Rainbow Theatre in Connecticut.
He is most familiar to television audiences for his 17-year stint as Dr. Stephen Jackson on the long-running soap opera "Guiding Light" (1952).
In the United States from 1938 and became an established radio actor, gracing more than 5,000 programs.
Son of famed classical pianist Artur Schnabel.