Paul Muni

He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6435 Hollywood Blvd. On television, his most significant role was as Syme in the BBC's highly-acclaimed 1954 adaptation of George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, which starred Peter Cushing - another actor who would go on to find fame in many horror film roles. Academy Awards and Nominations. His many movie roles include:. Partial Filmography. Paul de Vence, France from complications from heart valve replacement surgery. He died in Montecito, California. He died in St.

He was becoming increasingly infirm, however, and by 1959, soon after receiving his final Academy Award nomination for The Last Angry Man (1959) he retired from acting. His last marriage to Linda (maiden surname unknown) lasted until his death in 1995. After several failed projects, Muni was nominated for a Tony Award in 1955 for the role of Henry Drummond in Inherit the Wind. He was married to Meira Shore from 1970 to 1988 and they had one daughter, Miranda. Over the years, he also because increasingly dependent on his wife Bella, who terrified directors by forcing them to redo scenes that did not meet her satisfaction. His 1959 to 1970 marriage to actress and singer Josephine Martin Crombie produced two daughters, Lucy and Polly. He would go into a rage whenever anyone wore red, but at the same time he could often be found between sessions relaxing with his violin. Miriam Raymond and Pleasance produced two daughters, Anglea and Jean in their 1941 to 1958 marriage.

He was widely recognized as a talented if eccentric individual. Pleasence was married four times and is father to five daughters. In the ensuing years until his retirement in 1959, he spent his time acting on film and stage. His trademark voice may be credited to elocution lessons he had as a child. He went on to receive a Best Actor nomination for The Life of Emile Zola (1937) and to win the Academy Award for The Story of Louis Pasteur (1939). Perhaps because of this, and his bald head and quiet-but-intense voice, he specialised in insane and evil characters. Warner Brothers recognized his considerable talent and signed a long-term contract with him. He returned to acting after the war, and critics began to call him the "Man with the Hypnotic Eye".

In 1932 Muni returned to Hollywood to star in Scarface and I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, for which he received a second Best Actor nomination. Pleasence's acting career began in a 1939 production of Wuthering Heights, but was soon interrupted by his service in the Royal Air Force and a year in a German prisoner-of-war camp. He was signed by Fox three years later, in 1929, and received an Oscar nomination for his first film The Valiant, but he was unhappy with the roles and decided to return to Broadway. He was born in Worksop, England. His first role, that of an elderly Jewish man in the play We Americans by Sam Harris, was also the first time that he ever acted in English. Donald Pleasence (October 5, 1919 - February 2, 1995) was a British actor. Muni was twenty-nine when he began acting on Broadway. as one of the Three Wise Men in Jesus of Nazareth (movie).

It was an appropriate beginning for an actor who loved wearing elaborate costumes and assuming accents in his film career. The John Carpenter film, Prince of Darkness. In a stage quirk, Muni played an eighty-year-old man as his first role. The forger in The Great Escape. He made his stage debut at the age of twelve, and was quickly recognized by Maurice Schwartz, who signed him up with his Yiddish Art Theater. Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the Bond movie You Only Live Twice. Both of Muni's parents were actors with the Yiddish theater and it was only natural that he would join them on stage. Samuel Loomis in five of the Halloween movies.

Born Meshilem Meier Weisenfreund in Lwow, Galicja, autonomus province of Austria-Hungary (now Lviv, Ukraine), his family emigrated to the United States in 1902. Dr. Paul Muni (September 22, 1895 - August 25, 1967) was a versatile actor from the Golden Age of Hollywood, nominated for five Academy Awards. President in Escape from New York. 1930 Nominated The Valiant. The U.S. 1934 Nominated I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang. SEN 5241 in George Lucas's first film, THX 1138.

1937 Won The Story of Louis Pasteur. 1938 Nominated The Life of Emile Zola. 1960 Nominated The Last Angry Man. The Last Angry Man (1959).

Counter Attack (1945). A Song to Remember (1945). Hudson's Bay (1940). Juarez (1939).

The Good Earth (1937). The Life of Emile Zola (1937). The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936). Socrates (1935).

Dr. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932). Scarface (1932). Seven Faces (1929).