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- Birth nameWerner Fritz Groebli
- Werner Groebli was born on April 21, 1915 in Basel, Switzerland. He was an actor, known for Lady, Let's Dance (1944), Visiting... with Huell Howser (1993) and The Ed Sullivan Show (1948). He was married to Yvonne Groebli. He died on April 14, 2008 in Zurich, Switzerland.
- SpouseYvonne Groebli(? - December 2, 2002) (her death)
- He and partner Hans Mauch (as 'Frack') were the comedy ice-skating act "Frick and Frack".
- As a child, he lived next door to his partner Hans-Rudi Mauch and shared a pair of skates during winter months.
- Life magazine called Werner Groebli and Hans-Rudi Mauch the "Clown Kings of the Ice.".
- He and Hans-Rudi Mauch were the comic ice-skating duo Frick and Frack.
- After the comic skating duo gained popularity in the US, "Frick and Frack" became a figure of speech denoting inseparable partners.
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