Incisive character actor who began in the industry as a set painter and first appeared on stage in 1925. After an extensive theatrical career, he entered films late, at the age of 45. With his crew-cut, straight-backed military bearing and clipped speech, he was invariably cast as soldiers and gave particularly memorable performances as the head of the Gall dynasty in Das Erbe von Björndal (1960) and (as Col. Munro) in Le dernier des Mohicans (1965).
