Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Henry Victor (2 October 1892 – 15 March 1945) was an English-born character actor who had his highest profile in the silent era.Raised in Germany, he made his film debut as Prince Andreas in The Revolutionist (1914), originally titled The Kings Romance. He appeared in literary interpreted pieces such as The Picture of Dorian Gray (1916) and the Graham Cutts-directed The White Shadow (1923). Victor is probably best remembered for his portrayal of the circus strongman Hercules in Tod Browning's film Freaks (1932). The role was originally considered for Victor McLaglen, with whom Browning had worked previously.Never a leading man in sound films mainly due to his difficult to interpret accent, he established later in his career, and with the advent of talkies, many character roles, in which he mostly portrayed villains or Nazis in both American and British films with his trademark German accent such as the Ernst Lubitsch film, To Be or Not to Be (1942)."@en }
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- Henry_Victor abstract "Henry Victor (2 October 1892 – 15 March 1945) was an English-born character actor who had his highest profile in the silent era.Raised in Germany, he made his film debut as Prince Andreas in The Revolutionist (1914), originally titled The Kings Romance. He appeared in literary interpreted pieces such as The Picture of Dorian Gray (1916) and the Graham Cutts-directed The White Shadow (1923). Victor is probably best remembered for his portrayal of the circus strongman Hercules in Tod Browning's film Freaks (1932). The role was originally considered for Victor McLaglen, with whom Browning had worked previously.Never a leading man in sound films mainly due to his difficult to interpret accent, he established later in his career, and with the advent of talkies, many character roles, in which he mostly portrayed villains or Nazis in both American and British films with his trademark German accent such as the Ernst Lubitsch film, To Be or Not to Be (1942).".
- Q382045 abstract "Henry Victor (2 October 1892 – 15 March 1945) was an English-born character actor who had his highest profile in the silent era.Raised in Germany, he made his film debut as Prince Andreas in The Revolutionist (1914), originally titled The Kings Romance. He appeared in literary interpreted pieces such as The Picture of Dorian Gray (1916) and the Graham Cutts-directed The White Shadow (1923). Victor is probably best remembered for his portrayal of the circus strongman Hercules in Tod Browning's film Freaks (1932). The role was originally considered for Victor McLaglen, with whom Browning had worked previously.Never a leading man in sound films mainly due to his difficult to interpret accent, he established later in his career, and with the advent of talkies, many character roles, in which he mostly portrayed villains or Nazis in both American and British films with his trademark German accent such as the Ernst Lubitsch film, To Be or Not to Be (1942).".