He acted in Robert E. Sherwood's translation of Jacques Deval's play, "Tovarich," at the Hanna Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio with Marta Abba, Polly De Loos, Bram Nossen, Ernest Lawford, Aristides De Leon, Margaret Dale, Jay Fassett, Barbara Gott, James E. Truex, Amanda Duff, Oscar Sterling, Leni Stengel, Andora Andrews, and Cecil Humphreys in the cast. Raymond Sovey was set designer. Gilbert Miller was producer and director.
Austrian star of the Georg Wilhelm Pabst's film Die 3 Groschen-Oper (1931) [The Threepenny Opera] who fled Nazi Germany and lived with his wife Eleonora von Mendelssohn in Manhattan for a time. He became homesick and returned to Germany in 1940 to resume his career, starring in many Third Reich movies. She remained in Manhattan until her death in 1951.