PAUL LUKAS

Paul Lukas was an Austro-Hungarian actor from the 1910s to the 1970s. He was born in 1891, and became an actor in 1918 in Austria, and he made movies there for nearly ten years before moving to Hollywood in 1927. He achieved his greatest success in his 40s, winning the Academy Award in 1943 for "Watch on the Rhine". In his later years, he began appearing on the stage in New York City, making fewer and fewer movie and TV appearances. He passed away in 1971 at the age of 80.