Sig Ruman
Sig Ruman was born on Oct 11, 1884 in Germany. Sig Ruman's big-screen debut came with Die Königsloge directed by Bryan Foy in 1929, strarring Bailiff (as Siegfried Rumann). Sig Ruman is known for The Fortune Cookie directed by Billy Wilder, Jack Lemmon stars as Harry Hinkle and Walter Matthau as Willie Gingrich. The upcoming new movie Sig Ruman plays is The Last of the Secret Agents? which will be released on Mar 31, 1967.
Wonderfully talented German-born actor, capable of tremendous comedic and dramatic performances, usually as some type of pompous bureaucrat or similarly arrogant individual. Ruman was born on October 11, 1884, in Hamburg, Germany, and actually studied electrotechnology in college before making the switch to acting. He served with the Imperial German Forces in World War I before coming to the United States in 1924. He became friendly with playwright George S. Kaufman and critic Alexander Woollcott and was regularly appearing in high-quality stage productions on Broadway.With the advent of talkies, he was kept very busy in the cinema and became a favorite of the Marx Brothers, appearing as stiff-shirted NYC opera owner Herman Gottlieb in the comedy classic Une nuit à l'opéra (1935). He played a know-it-all surgeon crossing swords with Groucho Marx over what exactly was wrong with hypochondriac Margaret Dumont in Un jour aux courses (1937). and a dual role in Une nuit à Casablanca (1946). With his German accent, he was also a regular in several WWII espionage thrillers, including Les aveux d'un espion nazi (1939), They Came to Blow Up America (1943), and Hitler et sa clique (1944), and gave a superb portrayal of the two-faced POW guard Schulz in the splendid Stalag 17 (1953). He was also popular with famed director Ernst Lubitsch, who cast Ruman in Ninotchka (1939), and Jeu dangereux (1942). In all, he notched up over 100 feature film appearances as well as guest star spots on many TV shows.Ruman suffered ill health for the final two decades of his life and passed away on February 14, 1967, from a heart attack.
Birthday
Oct 11, 1884Place of Birth
Hamburg, Germany
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