Paul Henreid Net Worth is
$1 Million

Mini Biography

The son of aristocratic banker Baron Carl Alphons and Marie Luise von Hernried, Paul was raised in Vienna and studied in the prestigious Maria Theresa Academy (graduating in 1927) as well as the Institute of Graphic Arts. For four years, he worked well as translator and publication designer to get a publishing outfit work by Otto Preminger, while teaching to become an actor during the night. Preminger was also a protege (and handling movie director) of Potential Reinhardt. After participating in among Henreid’s acting college performances, Preminger presented him towards the well-known stage director which resulted in a agreement. In 1933, Paul produced his debut on the Reinhardt Theater in “Faust”. He eventually had many leading roles in the stage and made an appearance in several Austrian movies. Paul, like his display screen persona Victor Laszlo in Casablanca (1942) was avidly anti-fascist. He appropriately left continental European countries and visited London in 1935, 1st showing up on stage as Prince Albert in “Victoria the fantastic” 2 yrs later. Henreid produced his English-speaking film debut in the favorite drama Farewell, Mr. Potato chips (1939), as the sympathetic German grasp Maximum Staefel, who shows to become Chipping’s truest friend and ally. From then on, nevertheless, he became incongruously typecast as Nazi henchmen in Mad Males of European countries (1940) and Night time Teach to Munich (1940). That 12 months, he relocated to america (learning to be a citizen the next 12 months) and quickly founded himself on Broadway with “Airline flight to the Western”, like a Ribbentrop-type Nazi consul. His effective performance resulted in radio function in the serial “Joyce Jordan-Girl Interne” and a film agreement with RKO in 1941. This marked a turning point in Paul Henreid’s career. He finally escaped the stereotypical Teutonic picture and started to play heroic or passionate prospects, his first becoming Joan of Paris (1942), reverse Michèle Morgan, as French RAF pilot Paul Lavallier. Considerably, his following film, Right now, Voyager (1942), described his new display persona: debonnaire, cultured and genteel, light two cigarettes concurrently, then passing someone to Bette Davis. Regarding to Henreid, this renowned (and later frequently lampooned) picture was almost trim in the film as the movie director, Irving Rapper, acquired concerns about any of it. Next emerged “Casablanca”, where Henreid performed the idealistic, delicate patriot Victor Laszlo; the badly received Bronte sisters biopic Devotion (1946), as an Irish priest; and a stalwart functionality being a Polish count number and Ida Lupino’s like interest, INSIDE OUR Time (1944). After several dull intimate network marketing leads, Henreid reinvented himself just as before. He performed a memorably athletic and exciting Dutch pirate, the ‘Barracuda’, in RKO’s colourful swashbuckler The Spanish Primary (1945). Another of his greatest later shows was being a sadistic South African commandant in the underrated film noir Rope of Fine sand (1949), which re-united him along with his previous “Casablanca” co-stars Peter Lorre and Claude Rains. Following the Arabian Technicolor experience, Thief of Damascus (1952), Henreid’s superstar begun to fade. His last noteworthy appearance through the fifties was as an itinerant magician in the oriental extravaganza Siren of Bagdad (1953) . The most remarkable of many in-jokes, acquired Henreid light two hookahs (drinking water pipes) for just one of his harem ladies, spoofing his popular picture from “Right now, Voyager”. Outspoken in his opposition to McCarthyism and sticking with his rights beneath the First Amendment, he was subsequently blacklisted like a “communist sympathiser” by the home Committee on El- American Actions. Regardless of the harm this do to his profession, he re-emerged like a movie director of second features and tv episodes for Display Gems, Desilu and others. In 1957, Alfred Hitchcock (in defiance from the blacklist) employed him to immediate several shows of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955). Towards the finish of his profession, Paul Henreid aimed his previous “Today, Voyager” co-star Bette Davis in the camp melodrama Deceased Ringer (1964) and toured with Agnes Moorehead on stage within a short-lived revival of “Don Juan in Hell”(1972- 73). Henreid passed away of pneumonia within a Santa Monica medical center in Apr 1992, after having experienced a heart stroke. He gets the distinction of experiencing not only one but two superstars over the Hollywood Walk of Popularity, one for his movies, and one for his tv work.

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