Rudolph Schildkraut Video | Celebrity Interview and Paparazzi

Rudolph Schildkraut (born April 27, 1862 in Istanbul - died July 15, 1930 in Los Angeles) was an American film and theatre actor. Born in the Ottoman Empire as the child of a Jewish hotelier, he grew up in Brăila , Romania. In Vienna he received acting lessons from Friedrich Mitterwurzer. He debuted in the early 1880s in Sopro, his first solid role came in 1885 in Krems. In 1893 he moved to Vienna to an engagement at the newly opened Raimund Theater. In 1898 he moved to the Carl Theater. Among other things, he played the character Wurm in Love and Intrigue. In 1900 he came to the German... MORE

Rudolph Schildkraut (born April 27, 1862 in Istanbul - died July 15, 1930 in Los Angeles) was an American film and theatre actor. Born in the Ottoman Empire as the child of a Jewish hotelier, he grew up in Brăila , Romania. In Vienna he received acting lessons from Friedrich Mitterwurzer. He debuted in the early 1880s in Sopro, his first solid role came in 1885 in Krems. In 1893 he moved to Vienna to an engagement at the newly opened Raimund Theater. In 1898 he moved to the Carl Theater. Among other things, he played the character Wurm in Love and Intrigue. In 1900 he came to the German Theatre in Hamburg , 1905 to the German German Theatre in Berlin. There he became one of the most important actor in the theatre company players of Max Reinhardt. His Shylock, which he played in 1905 and 1913 in Reinhardt's productions of The Merchant of Venice was praised by Fritz Kortner as a "monument to the art of acting." Other major roles were the title role in King Lear (1908), Mephisto in Faust I (1909), Muley Hassan in Friedrich Schiller's Fiesco (1909), the grave-digger in Hamlet (1909) and Peter Bast in Knut Hamsun's From the devil fetched (1914). Schildkraut performed for the first time LESS