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Reinhold Schünzel
Person

Reinhold Schünzel

Specialty
Acting
Birth
November 7, 1888 · 66 years
Death
November 11, 1954
Origin
Hamburg, Germany

Professional Trajectory

Reinhold Schünzel (7 November 1888 – 11 November 1954) was a German actor and director, active in both Germany and the United States. The son of a German father and a Jewish mother, he was born in St. Pauli, the poorest part of Hamburg. Despite his ancestry, Schünzel was allowed by the Nazis to continue making films for several years until he left in 1937 to live abroad.

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