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Oskar Leopold Karlweis (often credited Oscar Karlweis; 10 July 1894 – 24 January 1956) was an Austrian-American stage and film actor, active internationally in both the silent as well as the sound era.
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Oskar Leopold Karlweis (often credited Oscar Karlweis; 10 July 1894 – 24 January 1956) was an Austrian-American stage and film actor, active internationally in both the silent as well as the sound era.
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Career Born in Hinterbrühl, Austria-Hungary, he was the son of playwright Carl Karlweis and younger brother of the writer Marta Karlweis. Karlweis abandoned his law studies for the stage, first for eight years at Vienna's Stadttheater. After service in World War I, he was active with Max Reinhardt's Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna, followed by engagements at various theaters in Munich and Vienna, and then to the Berlin stage where he had a popular following playing singing and dancing roles, including as Prinz Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus. His general manner was humorous, charming, naive, and cheerful. In Berlin between 1930 and 1933 he worked as a recording artist and acted in more than a dozen German light comedy and musical films, most famously as one of Lilian Harvey's suitors in the hugely successful operetta film The Three from the Filling Station. With Hitler's rise to power in 1933, Karlweis, who was Jewish, returned to the Austrian stage; but with the Nazi Anschluss in 1938 he was again forced to flee, first to Switzerland and then Paris where, at both locations, he took to the stage with fellow Austrian law school dropout, writer/director, and cabaret performer Karl Farkas. When German…
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Personal life In 1946, Karlweis married theatrical and film producer Ninon Tallon, the niece of three-time prime minister of France Édouard Herriot. She continued to use his surname professionally until after his death.
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Give Me Life (1928) Love in the Cowshed (1928), as Wedelski, Oberleutnant a.D. Two Hearts in Waltz Time (1930), as Nicky Mahler A Tango for You (1930), as Flooch The Three from the Filling Station (1930), as Kurt Dolly Gets Ahead (1930), as Fred Halton The Firm Gets Married (1931), as Solly Friedländer The Forester's Daughter (1931), as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Mamsell Nitouche (1931), as Célestin The Men Around Lucy (1931), as Robert
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The Naked Truth (1932) Spell of the Looking Glass (1932), as Menzel Three on a Honeymoon (1932), as Heinz Schaller The Gentleman from Maxim's (1933), as Werner Radke No Day Without You (1933), as Leo Today Is the Day (1933), as Peter Schlemm Voices of Spring (1933), as Franz Waldmüller
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Last Love (1935), as Teddy Langhammer Everything for the Company (1935), as Otto Sonndorfer St. Benny the Dip (1951), as Mr. Kovacs
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5 Fingers (1952), as Moyzisch Anything Can Happen (1952), as Uncle Besso Tonight We Sing (1953), as Benjamin Golder
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Dutch Girl (1953), as Professor Schmidtchen Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956), as Lotzi
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Bibliography Palmer, Jean Michel. Weimar in Exile: The Antifascist Emigration in Europe And America. Verso, 2006. Traubner, Richard. Operetta: A Theatrical History. Psychology Press, 2003. Weniger, Kay: 'Es wird im Leben dir mehr genommen als gegeben ...' Lexikon der aus Deutschland und Österreich emigrierten Filmschaffenden 1933 bis 1945: Eine Gesamtübersicht (Hamburg: ACABUS Verlag, 2011). ISBN 3862821420, 9783862821426