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Which film brought Otto Preminger back to Hollywood as an actor in 1942?
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Otto Preminger
Film director Otto Preminger, 1976.
In 1942, Otto Preminger was invited back to Hollywood to act in the Academy Award-nominated film The Pied Piper, directed by Irving Pichel. In this role, Preminger portrayed a Nazi, a character type that had become his specialty due to his intimidating persona and Austrian accent.1