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Siegfried Carl Alban Rumann (October 11, 1884 – February 14, 1967), billed as Sig Ruman and Sig Rumann, was a
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character actor known for his portrayals of pompous and often stereotypically Teutonic officials or villains in more than 100 films.


Early years

Born in
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, German Empire to Alban Julius Albrecht Ludwig Rumann and his wife, Caroline Margarethe Sophie Rumann on October 11, 1884, he studied electrical engineering, then began working as an actor and musician before serving with the Imperial German Army during
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. He resumed his acting career after the war. After emigrating to the United States in 1924, his acting career blossomed. Befriending playwright George S. Kaufman and theater critic
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, he enjoyed success in many
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productions. His Broadway credits included ''Once There Was a Russian'' (1961), ''Lily of the Valley'' (1942), ''Eight Bells'' (1933), ''Alien Corn'' (1933), ''Grand Hotel'' (1930), ''Half Gods'' (1929), and ''The Channel Road'' (1929).


Film

Ruman made his film debut in '' Lucky Boy'' (1929). He became a favorite comic foil of the
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, appearing in '' A Night at the Opera'' (1935), '' A Day at the Races'' (1937), and ''
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'' (1946). His German accent and large stature kept him busy during
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, playing sinister
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characters in a series of wartime thrillers. During this period, he also appeared in several films by director
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, a fellow German émigré, including ''
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'' (1939), portraying a
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, and in ''
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'' (1942) as the pompous Nazi Colonel "Concentration-Camp Erhardt". He played the role of Professor Herman Von Reiter in ''
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'' (1941), an adaptation of an
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play. Ruman continued his trend of portraying over-the-top German characters later in his career for Lubitsch's protege
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, in his films '' The Emperor Waltz'' (1948), and ''
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'' (1953). Ruman's voice was dubbed over German actor Hubert Von Meyerinck's voice in Wilder's ''
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'' (1961), and he had a cameo role in ''
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'' (1966). Around 1936, Ruman modified his screen name from Siegfried Rumann to Sig Ruman in an attempt to make it a little less German-sounding, as anti-German prejudice was rising at that time, just prior to the outbreak of the
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. Despite declining health during the 1950s and 1960s, Ruman continued to appear in films and made many guest appearances on
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. He guest-starred as pompous Broadway director Eric Von Bissell in the memorable 1965 episode of ''
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'', "My Fair Cousin Itt".


Death

Ruman died of a
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on February 14, 1967, at his home in
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at the age of 82. He was buried in Julian Cemetery, San Diego County, California. He was survived by his second wife, Clara. From his first marriage, to Else Rumann, he had a daughter named Senta.


Selected filmography

*'' Lucky Boy'' (1928) as Bit Part (uncredited) *''
The Royal Box ''The Royal Box'' (German: ''Die Königsloge'') is a 1929 American historical film directed by Bryan Foy and starring Alexander Moissi, Camilla Horn and Lew Hearn.Schaudig p.122 It is an adaptation of the play ''Kean'' by Alexandre Dumas about t ...
'' (1929) as Bailiff *'' All Quiet On The Western Front'' (1930, uncredited) *''
The World Moves On ''The World Moves On'' is a 1934 American drama film directed by John Ford and starring Madeleine Carroll and Franchot Tone. It was the first Hollywood code approved film. Plot The story opens in the year 1825, when two families, cotton merch ...
'' (1934) as Baron von Gerhardt *''
Servants' Entrance ''Servants' Entrance'' is a 1934 American Pre-Code musical comedy film. It was written by Samson Raphaelson from the Sigrid Boo novel and directed by Frank Lloyd, with a cartoon sequence by Walt Disney (Who's company now ironically owns this fil ...
'' (1934) as Hans Hansen *''
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'' (1934) as Brogard *''
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'' (1935) as Doctor *''
The Wedding Night ''The Wedding Night'' is a 1935 American romantic drama film directed by King Vidor and starring Gary Cooper and Anna Sten. Written by Edith Fitzgerald and based on a story by Edwin H. Knopf, the film is about a financially strapped novelist who r ...
'' (1935) as Mr. Jan Novak *'' Spring Tonic'' (1935) as Matt Conklin *'' The Farmer Takes a Wife'' (1935) as Blacksmith *'' A Night at the Opera'' (1935) as Herman Gottlieb *''
East of Java ''East of Java'' is a 1935 American drama film directed by George Melford and starring Charles Bickford, Elizabeth Young (actress), Elizabeth Young and Frank Albertson.Goble p.746 Cast * Charles Bickford as Red McGovern aka Harvey Bowers * Eliza ...
'' (1935) as Hans Muller *''
The Princess Comes Across ''The Princess Comes Across'' is a 1936 mystery/comedy film directed by William K. Howard and starring Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray, the second of the four times they were paired together. Lombard, playing an actress from Brooklyn preten ...
'' (1936) as Detective Steindorf *'' The Bold Cabarello'' (1936) as Commandante Sebastian Golle *'' On the Avenue'' (1937) as Herr Hanfstangel *'' Seventh Heaven'' (1937) as Durand *'' Maytime'' (1937) as Fanchon *'' Thin Ice'' (1937) as Prime Minister Ulricht *'' Midnight Taxi'' (1937) as John B. Rudd *'' The Great Hospital Mystery'' (1937) as Dr. Taggert *''
This Is My Affair ''This Is My Affair'' is a 1937 American crime film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Robert Taylor, Barbara Stanwyck, Victor McLaglen and Brian Donlevy. It was released by 20th Century Fox. Plot In 1901, US President William McKinl ...
'' (1937) as Gus *'' A Day at the Races'' (1937) as Dr. Leopold X. Steinberg *'' Think Fast, Mr. Moto'' (1937) as Nicolas Marloff *''
Love Under Fire ''Love Under Fire'' is a 1937 American drama film based upon the play by Walter C. Hackett. It was directed by George Marshall and stars Loretta Young, Don Ameche and Frances Drake. The film's sets were designed by the art director Rudolph Ster ...
'' (1937) as General Montero *''
Lancer Spy ''Lancer Spy'' is a 1937 American thriller film directed by Gregory Ratoff and starring Dolores Del Rio and George Sanders. Its plot concerns an Englishman who impersonates a German officer and a female German spy who falls in love with him. Plot ...
'' (1937) as Lt. Col. Gottfried Hollen *''
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'' (1937) as Police Captain *'' Nothing Sacred'' (1937) as Dr. Emil Eggelhoffer *'' Thank You, Mr. Moto'' (1937) as Colonel Tchernov *''
Paradise for Three ''Paradise for Three'', titled ''Romance for Three'' in the United Kingdom, is a 1938 romantic comedy film starring Frank Morgan as a wealthy industrialist who decides to find out about his German workers by temporarily living among them incognit ...
'' (1938) as Mr. Bold *'' The Saint in New York'' (1938) as Hutch Rellin *'' I'll Give a Million'' (1938) as Anatole Primerose *''
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'' (1938) as Sergeant Pellerin *''
Girls on Probation ''Girls on Probation'' is a 1938 American crime film directed by William C. McGann and written by Crane Wilbur. The film stars Jane Bryan, Ronald Reagan, Anthony Averill, Sheila Bromley, Henry O'Neill and Elisabeth Risdon. The film was relea ...
'' (1938) as Roger Heath *'' The Great Waltz'' (1938) as Wertheimer *''
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'' (1939) as Psychiatrist *'' Never Say Die'' (1939) as Poppa Ingleborg *''
Confessions of a Nazi Spy ''Confessions of a Nazi Spy'' is a 1939 American spy political thriller film directed by Anatole Litvak for Warner Bros. It was the first explicitly anti-Nazi film to be produced by a major Hollywood studio, being released in May 1939, several ...
'' (1939) as Krogman *''
Only Angels Have Wings ''Only Angels Have Wings'' is a 1939 American adventure drama film directed by Howard Hawks, starring Cary Grant and Jean Arthur, and is based on a story written by Hawks. Its plot follows the manager of an air freight company in a remote South ...
'' (1939) as Dutchy *''
Ninotchka ''Ninotchka'' is a 1939 American romantic comedy film made for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer by producer and director Ernst Lubitsch and starring Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas. It was written by Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, and Walter Reisch, based o ...
'' (1939) as Iranoff *''
Remember? ''Remember?'' is an American romantic comedy released on December 19, 1939, directed by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Robert Taylor (American actor), Robert Taylor, Greer Garson and Lew Ayres. It was rushed into production by MGM studio chief Loui ...
'' (1939) as Dr. Schmidt *'' Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet'' (1940) as Dr. Hans Wolfert *'' Outside the Three-Mile Limit'' (1940) as Van Cleve *'' I Was an Adventuress'' (1940) as Herr Protz *''
Four Sons ''Four Sons'' is a 1928 American silent drama film directed and produced by John Ford and written for the screen by Philip Klein from a story by I. A. R. Wylie first published in the '' Saturday Evening Post'' as "Grandmother Bernle Learns Her ...
'' (1940) as Newmann *'' Bitter Sweet'' (1940) as Herr Schlick *''
Comrade X ''Comrade X'' is a 1940 American comedy spy film directed by King Vidor and starring Clark Gable and Hedy Lamarr. The supporting cast features Oskar Homolka, Eve Arden and Sig Rumann. In February 2020, the film was shown at the 70th Berlin Inte ...
'' (1940) as Emil Von Hofer *''
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'' (1940) as Mr. Schomberg *''
So Ends Our Night ''So Ends Our Night'' is a 1941 drama directed by John Cromwell (director), John Cromwell and starring Fredric March, Margaret Sullavan and Glenn Ford. The screenplay was adapted by Talbot Jennings from the novel ''Flotsam (novel), Flotsam'' by G ...
'' (1941) as Ammers *'' The Man Who Lost Himself'' (1941) as Dr. Simms *'' That Uncertain Feeling'' (1941) as Kafka *'' The Wagons Roll at Night'' (1941) as Hoffman the Great *'' Love Crazy'' (1941) as Dr. Wuthering *''
Shining Victory ''Shining Victory'' is a 1941 American drama film based on the 1940 play '' Jupiter Laughs,'' by A. J. Cronin. It stars James Stephenson, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Donald Crisp, and Barbara O'Neil. It is the first film directed by Irving Rapper. ...
'' (1941) as Professor Herman Von Reiter *''
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'' (1941) as Franz von Bushmaster *'' This Woman Is Mine'' (1941) as John Jacob Astor *''
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'' (1942) as Colonel Ehrhardt *''
Remember Pearl Harbor ''Remember Pearl Harbor'' is a 1942 American propaganda film directed by Joseph Santley and written by Malcolm Stuart Boylan and Isabel Dawn. The film stars Don "Red" Barry, Alan Curtis, Fay McKenzie, Sig Ruman, Ian Keith and Rhys Williams. '' ...
'' (1942) as Dirk Van Hoorten *'' Crossroads'' (1942) as Dr. Alex Dubroc *''
Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen ''Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen'' is a 1942 black-and-white thriller film, directed by James P. Hogan and written by Ellery Queen, the duo of Manfred Lee and Frederic Dannay. The film was the final entry in the Ellery Queen film series. Plot ...
'' (1942) as Heinrich - Spy Leader *''
Berlin Correspondent ''Berlin Correspondent'' is a 1942 American film. Plot Dana Andrews portrays an American radio correspondent reporting from within Nazi Germany, whose principal source of information is an elderly philatelist. His reports prove so embarrassing ...
'' (1942) as Dr. Dietrich *''
Desperate Journey ''Desperate Journey'' is a 1942 American World War II action and aviation film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Errol Flynn and Ronald Reagan. The supporting cast includes Raymond Massey, Alan Hale Sr., and Arthur Kennedy. The melodramatic f ...
'' (1942) as Preuss *''
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'' (1942) as Jarubi *''
Tarzan Triumphs ''Tarzan Triumphs'' is a 1943 adventure film in which Tarzan fights the Nazi Germany, Nazis. Johnny Weissmuller had portrayed the Edgar Rice Burroughs character in six films with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, but this was his first with the producer Sol ...
'' (1943) as German Sergeant *''
They Came to Blow Up America ''They Came to Blow Up America'', also known as ''School for Sabotage'' and ''School for Saboteurs'', is a 1943 American war spy film directed by Edward Ludwig and starring George Sanders and Anna Sten. It is based on the World War II Operation P ...
'' (1943) as Dr. Herman Holger *'' Sweet Rosie O'Grady'' (1943) as Joe Flugelman *''
Government Girl ''Government Girl'' is a 1943 American romantic-comedy film, produced and directed by Dudley Nichols and starring Olivia de Havilland and Sonny Tufts. Based on a story by Adela Rogers St. Johns, and written by Dudley Nichols and Budd Schulberg, t ...
'' (1943) as Ambassador *'' The Song of Bernadette'' (1943) as Louis Bouriette *'' It Happened Tomorrow'' (1944) as Mr. Beckstein *'' The Hitler Gang'' (1944) as General von Hindenburg *'' Summer Storm'' (1944) as Kuzma *'' House of Frankenstein'' (1944) as Hussman *'' A Royal Scandal'' (1945) as Gen. Ronsky *'' Men in Her Diary'' (1945) as Mme. Irene *'' The Dolly Sisters'' (1945) as Ignatz Tsimmis *''
She Went to the Races ''She Went to the Races'' is a 1945 American comedy film directed by Willis Goldbeck and starring James Craig, Frances Gifford and Ava Gardner. The screenplay concerns a team of scientists who discover a seemingly foolproof way of discovering ...
'' (1945) as Dr. Gurke *''
A Night in Casablanca ''A Night in Casablanca'' is a 1946 film starring the Marx Brothers: (Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx and Chico Marx). The picture was directed by Archie Mayo, and written by Joseph Fields and Roland Kibbee. ...
'' (1946) as Count Pfefferman alias Heinrich Stubel *'' Night and Day'' (1946) as Wilowski *'' Faithful in My Fashion'' (1946) as Professor Boris Riminoffsky *''
Mother Wore Tights ''Mother Wore Tights'' is a 1947 Technicolor musical film starring Betty Grable and Dan Dailey as married vaudeville performers, directed by Walter Lang. This was Grable and Dailey's first film together, based on a book of the same name by Mir ...
'' (1947) as Papa *'' If You Knew Susie'' (1948) as Count Alexis *'' The Emperor Waltz'' (1948) as Dr. Zwieback *''
Give My Regards to Broadway "Give My Regards to Broadway" is a song written by George M. Cohan for his musical play ''Little Johnny Jones'' which debuted in 1904 in New York. Cohan, playing the title character, sings this song as his friend is about to sail to Americ ...
'' (1948) as Arthur Dinkel *''
Border Incident ''Border Incident'' is a 1949 film noir featuring Ricardo Montalbán, George Murphy, Howard Da Silva. Directed by Anthony Mann, the MGM production was written by John C. Higgins and George Zuckerman. The film was shot by cinematographer John ...
'' (1949) as Hugo Wolfgang Ulrich *'' Father Is a Bachelor'' (1950) as Jericho Schlosser *''
On the Riviera ''On the Riviera'' is a 1951 Technicolor musical comedy film made by 20th Century Fox. Directed by Walter Lang and produced by Sol C. Siegel from a screenplay by Valentine Davies and Phoebe and Henry Ephron, it is the studio's fourth film base ...
'' (1951) as Gapeaux *''
The World in His Arms ''The World in His Arms'' is a 1952 seafaring adventure film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Gregory Peck, Ann Blyth and Anthony Quinn, with John McIntire, Carl Esmond, Andrea King, Eugenie Leontovich, Hans Conried, and Sig Ruman. Made by U ...
'' (1952) as General Ivan Vorashilov *''
O. Henry's Full House ''O. Henry's Full House'' is a 1952 American anthology film made by 20th Century Fox, consisting of five films, each based on a story by O. Henry. The film was produced by André Hakim and directed by five directors from five screenplays with di ...
'' (1952) as Menkie (segment "The Gift of the Magi") (uncredited) *''
Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation ''Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation'' is a 1953 American comedy film directed by Charles Lamont. It is the sixth installment of Universal-International's '' Ma and Pa Kettle'' series starring Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride. Plot In May 1953, Ma ...
'' (1953) as Cyrus Kraft *''
Stalag 17 ''Stalag 17'' is a 1953 American war film which tells the story of a group of American airmen confined with 40,000 prisoners in a World War II German prisoner of war camp "somewhere on the Danube". Their compound holds 630 Sergeants representi ...
'' (1953) as Sgt. Johann Sebastian Schulz *'' Die Jungfrau auf dem Dach'' (1953) as Michael O'Neill *''
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'' (1953) as Schultz *''
The Glenn Miller Story ''The Glenn Miller Story'' is a 1954 American biographical film about the eponymous American band-leader, directed by Anthony Mann and starring James Stewart in their second non-western collaboration. Plot The film follows big band leader Glenn ...
'' (1954) as Kranz *''Living It Up'' (1954) as Dr. Emile Egelhofer *''White Christmas (film), White Christmas'' (1954) as Landlord (uncredited) *''3 Ring Circus'' (1954) as Colonel Fritz Schlitz *''Carolina Cannonball'' (1955) as Stefan *''Many Rivers to Cross (film), Many Rivers to Cross'' (1955) as Spectacle Man *''Spy Chasers'' (1955) as King Rako of Truania *''The Wings of Eagles'' (1957) as Manager *''The Errand Boy'' (1961) as Baron Elston Carteblanche *''
One, Two, Three ''One, Two, Three'' is a 1961 American political comedy film directed by Billy Wilder and written by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond. It is based on the 1929 Hungarian one-act play ''Egy, kettő, három'' by Ferenc Molnár, with a "plot borrowed par ...
'' (1961) as Count von Droste Schattenburg (voice, uncredited) *''Robin and the 7 Hoods'' (1964) as Hammacher (uncredited) *''36 Hours (1965 film), 36 Hours'' (1965) as German Guard *''The Last of the Secret Agents?'' (1966) as Prof. Werner von Koenig *''
The Fortune Cookie ''The Fortune Cookie'' (alternative UK title: ''Meet Whiplash Willie'') is a 1966 American black comedy film directed, produced and co-written by Billy Wilder. It was the first film in which Jack Lemmon collaborated with Walter Matthau. Matthau ...
'' (1966) as Professor Winterhalter *''Way...Way Out'' (1966) as Russian Delegate


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