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Birth Name: Oscar Hugo Homolka
Born: 12 August 1898 Died: 27 January 1978
Country of origin: 
Austria
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Directed by Blake Edwards
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Published 12 years, 8 months ago
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Immigrants of Germany and Austria
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Because of his heavy generically "European" accent and Slavic-sounding surname (not an uncommon one among Czechs or Slovaks), many people assumed Oscar Homolka was Eastern European or Russian. In fact, he was born in Vienna (then Austria-Hungary), the multicultural capital of a large multi-ethnic empire at the time. It was there he began his successful stage career, which eventually led him to Hollywood. Homolka was one of the many Austrian and specifically Viennese actors (many of them Jewish) who fled Europe for the U.S. with the rise to power of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party. Although often typecast in villainous
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1. The Seven Year Itch (1955)
| Rating: | 544 Watched |
2. Sabotage (1936)
| Rating: | 208 Watched |
3. War and Peace (1956)
| Rating: | 121 Watched |
4. Ball of Fire (1941)
| Rating: | 139 Watched |
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2. Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (1954)
| Rating: | 28 Watched |
3. Boris Karloff's Thriller (1960) (1960)
| Rating: | 19 Watched |
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5. Burke's Law (1963)
| Rating: | 9 Watched |
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