- Leading Austrian character actor and cabaret artiste, trained at the Viennese Max Reinhardt Seminar in 1930 and subsequently ensemble member of the celebrated Burgtheater. Often seen in small film roles as Austrian nobility, ministers, civil servants or professors.
- Served in World War I and was held as a prisoner-of-war from 1915 to 1920.
- Actively opposed the construction of atomic reactors in Austria during the early 1970's.
- Son of a postmaster and mayor of the town of St. Pölten.
- President of the Austrian cat lover's association from 1975 to 1980.
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