Mischa Auer

Auer married four times, and had three children.
. In the 1960s, he made several films in France and Italy. He was in, amongst other radio credits, "Shadow Man" on Radio Luxembourg in 1955, "Destination - Fire!" on BBC (Early 1960s), General Sternwood in a BBC version of Raymond Chandler's "The Big Sleep" (1977), "Pay Any Price" (BBC 1982), "The Mystery of the Blue Train" (BBC 1985/1986), as Henry Hickslaughter in Elizabeth Troop's Sony Award winning adaptation of Graham Greene's short story "Cheap In August" (1993). In the 1950s, Auer appeared on several episodic television series, like Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse, Studio One, Broadway Television Theatre and The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre. His movie credits include: Another Shore (1948), The Square Ring (1953), The Amorous Prawn (1962), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Where Eagles Dare (1968), The Pink Panther Strikes Again(1976) and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987). He was also one of the large cast of And Then There Were None. He was in Franco Zeffirelli's tv mini-series of "Jesus of Nazareth" and the American tv series of Ray Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles".

From then on, he was cast in zany comedy roles as in 100 Men and a Girl, You Can't Take It With You, Destry Rides Again, Spring Parade, Hellzapoppin, Cracked Nuts and Lady in the Dark. He appeared in British television shows such as Dial 999, Doctor Who, Blake's 7, The Gathering Storm, The New Avengers, and Minder. But in 1936, Auer was cast as a false nobleman in the comedy My Man Godfrey, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. The series was made available to overseas broadcasters by the BBC Transcription Service. He appeared in several small and mostly uncredited roles into the 1930s, appearing in such films as Rasputin and the Empress, Viva Villa! and The Lives of a Bengal Lancer. Other stories followed and were presented by BBC radio over the years from 1947 to 1961. He began stage work in the 1920s, then moved to Hollywood, where he first appeared in 1928 in Something Always Happens. The series debuted on BBC radio with the story "Lady in a Fog" in October 1947.

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