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| Schildkraut, Rudolph |
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(sh lt´krout) (KEY) , 1862–1930, Austrian actor. He was a member of Max Reinhardt’s Deutsches Theater, Berlin. In 1911 he came to the United States and until 1922 was a star of the Yiddish Art Theater in New York City. His son, Joseph Schildkraut, 1896–1964, first achieved fame in a Theatre Guild production of Liliom (1921). He appeared in many motion pictures after 1921. His performance as the father in The Diary of Anne Frank (1955) was outstanding. | 1 | | See his autobiography, My Father and I (1959). | 2 |
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