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A Russian-born character actor who trained in Moscow theatre, built a career on stage and screen in Weimar Germany and France, and after emigrating to the United States in the 1930s appeared in over 100 films and television productions. He specialized in supporting roles across a wide range of nationalities and ethnicities, becoming one of Hollywood's reliable working actors of the mid-twentieth century without ever anchoring a film himself.