Biography

October 4, 1904 · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

February 15, 1958 · Los Angeles, California, USA (suicide by overdose of sleeping pills)

Philip Pinheiro

Had been depressed over his flagging career, and had spent nearly all of his earnings through compulsive gambling. He committed suicide by taking an overdose of sleeping pills.

Had played an adversary in a handful of The Three Stooges slapstick shorts.

Technically his role is Citizen Kane is one of the most important, sending out the reporter to gather information about Kane's life, which is the entire plot. He worked again with Orson Welles in The Lady from Shanhai.

Swarthy-looking Dutch-born actor in America from the late 1920s who came to films following Broadway and appeared in hundreds of films as a minor heavy.