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, he specialized in playing

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roles in

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. He also performed frequently on the stage. For instance, in 1931, he was in the cast of ''Wonder Bar'', headlined by

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. In 1932, he was in ''New York to Cherbourg'' at the Forrest Theatre, New York City. In 1933, he appeared with

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and Humphrey Bogart at the Booth Theatre in the comedy, ''Our Wife''. In June 1934, he co-starred with

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in ''Genius in Love'' at the Elverhoj Theatre in Kingston, New York. In January 1935, he starred as Al Pomo, Public Enemy Number One, in ''Nowhere Bound'', a melodrama about undesirable aliens on board a deportation train; written by

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, it was presented at the Imperial Theatre in New York City. In 1936 and 1937, he was in the original production of ''Idiot's Delight'' with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. In 1941, he was in the touring company of ''There Shall Be No Night'', in a cast headed by Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. Following the end of the Second World War and through the 1960s, he was a program director and executive producer at the

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radio for the

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Filmography

References

Bibliography

* Hanke, Ken. ''Charlie Chan at the Movies: History, Filmography, and Criticism''. McFarland, 1990.

External links

* 1900 births 1976 deaths Polish male stage actors Polish male film actors Polish emigrants to the United States Male actors from Warsaw {{Poland-actor-stub