Anecdotes

Married once for six years and had one son. Retired for the most part and started up a business building and renovating houses.

Survived injuries suffered in a 1955 automobile crash.

Member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Actors Branch)

Kreuger was a successful real estate investor, primarily in properties in Beverly Hills, California. He lived in Beverly Hills and had a second home in Aspen, Colorado.

His father, a businessman, cut off his allowance after he embarked seriously on an acting career.

One of Kreuger's few opportunities to play a non-Nazi role was in 1948's Unfaithfully Yours, in which he played Rex Harrison's personal assistant. When Kreuger asked Darryl F. Zanuck for better roles, Zanuck reportedly replied: "What's your hurry? With your looks, you'll be good at 50.".

He attended the London School of Economics and enrolled in Columbia University (New York City) to study medicine, but he soon dropped out to pursue a career in acting.

Kurt Kreuger was a Swiss-reared German actor. He was once was the third-most-requested male actor at 20th Century Fox after Tyrone Power and John Payne.

He briefly returned to Europe and starred in several German films, but he returned to the United States in 1955 after being injured in a car accident in Paris, France.

In 1943, during the filming of Sahara, Kreuger was almost killed in a dramatic scene because the director almost forgot to say "cut".