Leon Askin
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Birth Name: Leon Aschkenasy
Born: 18 September 1907 Died: 3 June 2005
Country of origin: Austria
Height: 5' 10"
Relationship Status: Married
Partner: Annelies Ehrlich
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Directed by Blake Edwards
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Published 11 years, 9 months ago
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Directed by Don Siegel
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Published 12 years, 1 month ago
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Famous Faces; Hogan's Heroes Edition
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As a nine-year-old boy, Leon Askin recited a 17-stanza eulogy for Emperor Franz Josef in front of the city hall in Vienna's 9th District. Little did the son of a salesman know then that he would one day be the student of Max Reinhardt and Louise Dumont, and discover Jura Soyfer while directing the political cabaret "ABC". Emigration brought him into contact with even more 20th-century luminaries: in 1938 he met Erwin Piscator, the founder of the school of Epic Realism, and worked with him for the next 30 years. On the set of Billy Wilder's One, Two, Three (1961), Wilder once exclaimed, "Here comes my professional!
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1. Happy Days
Rating: | 706 Watched |
2. Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo (1979-1983) (1979)
Rating: | 472 Watched |
3. Three's Company (1977)
Rating: | 330 Watched |
4. Diff'rent Strokes (1978)
Rating: | 313 Watched |
5. Mission: Impossible (1966)
Rating: | 202 Watched |
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1. Young Frankenstein (1974)
Rating: | 1511 Watched |
2. Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)
Rating: | 492 Watched |
3. One, Two, Three (1961)
Rating: | 180 Watched |
5. Road to Bali (1952)
Rating: | 41 Watched |
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1. Rappel immédiat (1939)
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