Character actor and singer, on stage from 1913 and in films by the following year. Usually played gentlemanly, romantic heroes or dapper officers in musical comedies or crime melodramas. As a 'suspected' Jew, he was excluded from the Reich's Theatre Chamber in 1933 and briefly interned. He was eventually released through the ministrations of his wife (the former silent star Agnes Esterházy) and fled to Switzerland. Became ensemble member/director at the Stadttheater Zürich (1940-56) and the Schauspielhaus Zürich (1956-69), specialising in operettas, as well as classical and modern plays.
