Lean, sardonic-looking German-born character actor, who lent a silky, urbane quality to numerous menacing roles in British films of the 1950's, 60's and 70's. Of Jewish background, he left Germany for England in 1932 to stay with his sculptress aunt. After training for acting at RADA and the Old Vic school, he first appeared on stage as the White Knight in "Alice Through the Looking Glass" with the West Croydon Repertory Company. He became a much sought-after radio actor and his voice was also used in wartime propaganda broadcasts. Among his numerous roles on screen, including a fair share of Nazi officers, he is best remembered as Count von Krolock in Roman Polanski's Dracula parody
Le bal des vampires (1967). He also played 'the Count' in the German horror comedy
Gebissen wird nur nachts - das Happening der Vampire (1971).
