Diminutive, stocky Viennese singer and character actor of stage and screen. Discovered at the Munich Kuenstlertheater by' Max Reinhardt (I)' in 1911 and signed as a star comic for the Deutsches Theater in Berlin in 1914. Film career desultory. Married to opera star (soprano)
Fritzi Massary. Died in a plane crash near Prague, Czechoslovakia.