Trivia

In 1944 he became the US citizenship.

Lutz Altschul was able to take part in some very popular American movies, but beside it he also had to work as a taxi driver to earn additional money.

Brother of actress "Maria Ray' (Greta Maria Altschul).

The actor Lutz Altschul - who later chose the pseudonym Louis V. Arco in the USA - began his career as an actor after the end of World War I. But before he started his acting career he tried to launch a military career but didn't see a future in it.

After the end or World War 2 he returned to Europa and acted on stage mostly.

In the USA he was able to gain a foothold again both at the theater and in the film business although he only impersonated very small roles especially in the movies, often as a soldier or officer of the German army from which he had to flee in reality.

He left Germany in 1933 when the National Socialists assumed the power and after a inter station in Czecholovakia where he appeared at the Deutsches Theater, he emigrated via Switzerland and France.