Schildkraut, Joseph; Muni, Paul; Sondergaard, Gale; The Life of Emile Zola
(From left, seated at table) Joseph Schildkraut, Paul Muni, and Gale Sondergaard in The Life of Emile Zola (1937).
Joseph Schildkraut
Austrian actor
Joseph Schildkraut (born March 22, 1895, Vienna, Austria—died Jan. 21, 1964, New York City, N.Y., U.S.) was an Austrian-born American stage, television, and motion-picture actor. Schildkraut joined his father, the actor Rudolf Schildkraut, on his first American tour in 1910 and remained to study at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts (1912–13). He made his professional debut in Berlin in 1913 under Max Reinhardt and acted in Vienna from 1917 until he moved to New...