Paul Lukas (born Pál Lukács; May 26, 1894 â€" August 15, 1971) was a
Hungarian actor. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his
performance in the film Watch on the Rhine (1943), reprising the role
he created on the Broadway stage.Lukas was born Pál Lukács in
Budapest into a Jewish family, the son of Adolf Munkácsi and Mária
Schneckendorf. He was later adopted by Mária (née Zilahy) and János
Lukács, an advertising executive.Lukas made his stage debut in
Budapest in 1916 and his film debut in 1917. At first, he played
elegant, smooth womanizers, but increasingly he became typecast as a
villain. He had a successful stage and film career in Hungary,
Germany, and Austria, where he worked with Max Reinhardt. He arrived
in Hollywood in 1927 and became a naturalized citizen of the United
States in 1937.He was busy in the 1930s, appearing in such films as
the melodrama Rockabye, the crime caper Grumpy, Alfred Hitchcock's The
Lady Vanishes, the comedy Ladies in Love, and the drama Dodsworth. He
followed William Powell and Basil Rathbone portraying the series
detective Philo Vance, a cosmopolitan New Yorker, once in The Casino
Murder Case (1935).
Hungarian actor. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his
performance in the film Watch on the Rhine (1943), reprising the role
he created on the Broadway stage.Lukas was born Pál Lukács in
Budapest into a Jewish family, the son of Adolf Munkácsi and Mária
Schneckendorf. He was later adopted by Mária (née Zilahy) and János
Lukács, an advertising executive.Lukas made his stage debut in
Budapest in 1916 and his film debut in 1917. At first, he played
elegant, smooth womanizers, but increasingly he became typecast as a
villain. He had a successful stage and film career in Hungary,
Germany, and Austria, where he worked with Max Reinhardt. He arrived
in Hollywood in 1927 and became a naturalized citizen of the United
States in 1937.He was busy in the 1930s, appearing in such films as
the melodrama Rockabye, the crime caper Grumpy, Alfred Hitchcock's The
Lady Vanishes, the comedy Ladies in Love, and the drama Dodsworth. He
followed William Powell and Basil Rathbone portraying the series
detective Philo Vance, a cosmopolitan New Yorker, once in The Casino
Murder Case (1935).
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