Mischa Auer
November 17, 1905 - March 5, 1967
Born Mischa Ounskowsky in St. Petersburg, Russia
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A Few Favorite Memories of Mischa Auer
- As "B-36" in Just Imagine (1930).
- As "Dakka" in the serial King of the Wild (1931).
- As "Piotr" in Drums of Jeopardy (1931).
- As "Hanns Krug" in The Monster Walks (1932.
- As "Chapman," a scowling, tough-talking bad guy in the Tim McCoy horse opera The Western Code (1932) — which also features Dwight Frye as the heroine's hothead brother!
- As "Christian in prison" in Cecil B. DeMille's The Sign of the Cross (1932).
- As "Butler Pouring Drinks at Party," (with poison for Lionel Barrymore) in Rasputin and the Empress (1932).
- As "Eltar, High Priest of Zar" in Tarzan the Fearless (1933).
- As "Suraj Ud Dowlah" in Clive of India (1935).
- As "Tanaga" in the Mascot serial The Adventures of Rex and Rinty (1935).
- As "Zan, the hunchback" in Condemned to Live (1935)..
- As "Carlo," a parasitic protege in My Man Godfrey (1936).
- As "Boris Kolenkhov" in Frank Capra's You Can't Take It with You (1938).
- As "Bibenko" in Service de Luxe (1938), Vincent Price's first film.
- As "Boris Callahan" in Destry Rides Again (1939).
- As "Gregory," head waiter in Abbott and Costello's Hold That Ghost (1941).
- As "Prince Nikita 'Nikki' Starloff" in And Then There Were None (1945).
- As "The Professor" in Orson Welles' Mr. Arkadin (1955).
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