Henry Victor

Actor: Henry Victor

Born: Oct 02, 1898
Died: Mar 15, 1945
Occupation: Actor
Active: '20s-'40s
Major Genres: Drama, Mystery
Career Highlights: Freaks, L'Argent, The Beloved Rogue
First Major Screen Credit: A Bill of Divorcement (1922)

Biography

Born in England but raised in Germany, Henry Victor began his film career in 1916. During the silent era, the tall, muscular Victor played leads in such literary adaptations as Portrait of Dorian Gray (1917) and She (1925). When talkies came in, Victor's thick Teutonic accent precluded future leading roles, though he enjoyed a substantial career as a character actor, specializing in brutish Nazis during WWII. Henry Victor's best-known talkie roles include the sadistic strong-man Hercules in 1932's Freaks and the beleaguered Nazi adjutant Schultz in the Ernst Lubitsch classic To Be or Not to Be (1942). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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Henry Victor
Born	October 2, 1892(1892-10-02) London, England
Died	March 15, 1945 (aged 52) Hollywood, California
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1914 - 1945

Henry Victor (October 2, 1892 – March 15, 1945) was an English-born character actor. Raised in Germany, Victor is probably best remembered for his portrayal of the strongman Hercules in Tod Browning's 1932 film Freaks. He originally was a leading figure in UK silent films. Later in his career, he mostly portrayed villains or Nazis in both American and British films with his trademark German accent. He was buried in Chatsworth, California's Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery.

Selected filmography

John Heriot's Wife (1920)
As God Made Her (1920)
Sheer Bluff (1921)
The Beloved Rogue (1927)
L'Argent (1928)
Seas Beneath (1931)
Freaks (1932)
The Mummy (1932) - Saxon Warrior
Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)

External links

Henry Victor at the Internet Movie Database
Henry Victor at Find a Grave

Persondata
NAME	Victor, Henry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Actor
DATE OF BIRTH	October 2, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH	London, England
DATE OF DEATH	March 15, 1945
PLACE OF DEATH	Hollywood, California

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