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  • Category Motion Pictures

    Address 6433 Hollywood Blvd.

    Ceremony date 02/08/1960

About
Paul Muni
Born:
1895-09-22,
Lviv,
Ukraine
Education:
NA
Ethnicity:
Caucasian
Death Date:
1967-08-25
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Paul Muni

Paul Muni was an Austrian-Hungarian-born American stage and film actor. During the 1930s, he was considered the most prestigious actor at Warner Brothers studios, and one of the rare actors who was given the privilege of choosing which parts he wanted.

His acting quality, usually playing a powerful character, such as Scarface, was partly a result of his intense preparation for his parts, often immersing himself in study of the real character’s traits and mannerisms. He was also highly skilled in using makeup techniques, a talent he learned from his parents, who were also actors, and from his early years on stage with the Yiddish Theater, in New York. At the age of 12, he played the stage role of an 80-year-old man; in one of his films, Seven Faces, he played seven different characters.

He has been nominated six times for an Oscar, winning once as Best Actor in The Story of Louis Pasteur.

He was born Meshilem Meier Weisenfreund to a Polish Jewish family in Lemberg, Galicia, a province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now Lviv, Ukraine. His family emigrated to the United States in 1902.

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