Paul Lukas

Paul Lukas Headshot

Actor

Birth Date: May 25, 1894

Death Date: August 15, 1971

Birth Place: Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]

Star of the Hungarian stage who appeared in a number of Max Reinhardt productions before arriving in the US in 1927 and establishing himself as one of Hollywood's favorite suave European types. For a time in the early 1930s the dapper, mustachioed Lukas was a romantic lead of films including "Strictly Dishonorable" (1931), "Little Women" (1933), "By Candlelight" (1933), and "The Fountain" (1934). He did, however, have more than a touch of the roue about him, which manifested itself in "Affairs of a Gentleman" (1934) and in his splendid supporting performance as one of the heroine's illicit romances in William Wyler's "Dodsworth" (1936).

Alfred Hitchcock's delightful suspenser "The Lady Vanishes" (1938) found Lukas playing an outright, though still sneaky, villain, and he played a number of unsympathetic roles in wartime films, memorably as Hedy Lamarr's dangerous husband in "Experiment Perilous" (1944). The most notably exception to Lukas's roles during this period was his fine Oscar-winning lead performance (recreating his stage role) as a heroic resistance fighter in the well-intentioned but stodgy "Watch on the Rhine" (1943). During his later years Lukas played a number of gentler roles, keeping busy in "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" (1954, as Prof. Aronnax) and "Tender Is the Night" (1962), but the gentlemanly if sometimes deceptive Continental suavity which was always his trademark never left him.

Credits

The Challenge

Actor
Dr. Nagy
Movie
1970

The Name of the Game

Guest Star
Series
1968

Sol Madrid

Actor
Capo Riccione
Movie
1968

Lord Jim

Actor
Stein
Movie
1965

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.Stream

Guest Star
Series
1964
100%

Fun in Acapulco

Actor
Maximillian Dauphin
Movie
1963

55 Days at Peking

Actor
Dr. Steinfeldt
Movie
1963
57%

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Actor
Karl von Hartrott
Movie
1962

Tender Is the Night

Actor
Dr. Dohmler
Movie
1962

The Roots of Heaven

Actor
Saint Denis
Movie
1958

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Actor
Prof. Pierre Arronax
Movie
1954

The United States Steel Hour

Actor
Charles Lagarde
Show
1953

The Orient Express

Actor
Show
1953

I've Got a SecretStream

Guest
Game Show
1952

The Kate Smith Evening Hour

Actor
regular
Show
1951

Kim

Actor
Lama
Movie
1950

Studio OneStream

Actor
Series
1948

Berlin Express

Actor
Dr. Bernhardt
Movie
1948

Whispering City

Actor
Albert Frédéric
Movie
1947

Temptation

Actor
Sir Meyer Isaacson
Movie
1946

Deadline at Dawn

Actor
Gus Hoffman
Movie
1946

Uncertain Glory

Actor
Inspector Marcel Bonet
Movie
1944

Address Unknown

Actor
Martin Schulz
Movie
1944

Experiment PerilousStream

Actor
Nick Bederaux
Movie
1944
100%

Hostages

Actor
Rheinhardt
Movie
1943

Watch on the RhineStream

Actor
Kurt Muller
Movie
1943
80%

The Monster and the Girl

Actor
W. S. Bruhl
Movie
1941

Lady in Distress

Actor
Zoltini
Movie
1940

Strange Cargo

Actor
Hessler
Movie
1940

The Ghost Breakers

Actor
Parada
Movie
1940

The Chinese Bungalow

Actor
Yuan Sing
Movie
1940

Captain Fury

Actor
Francois Dupré
Movie
1939

Confessions of a Nazi Spy

Actor
Dr. Karl F. Kassel
Movie
1939

The Lady VanishesStream

Actor
Dr. Hartz of Prague
Movie
1938
98%

Brief Ecstasy

Actor
Prof. Paul Bernardy
Movie
1938

Dinner at the Ritz

Actor
Baron Philip de Beaufort
Movie
1937

The Mutiny of the Elsinore

Actor
Jack Pethurst
Movie
1937

Espionage

Actor
Anton Kronsky
Movie
1937

Ladies in Love

Actor
John Barta
Movie
1936

DodsworthStream

Actor
Arnold Iselin
Movie
1936
90%

The Three Musketeers

Actor
Athos
Movie
1935

Age of Indiscretion

Actor
Robert Lenhart
Movie
1935

Casino Murder Case

Actor
Philo Vance
Movie
1935

Father Brown, Detective

Actor
Flambeau
Movie
1935

I Found Stella Parish

Actor
Stephan Norman
Movie
1935

The Countess of Monte Cristo

Actor
Rumowski
Movie
1934

The Fountain

Actor
Rupert von Narwitz
Movie
1934

Affairs of a Gentleman

Actor
Victor Gresham
Movie
1934

By Candlelight

Actor
Josef
Movie
1934

Glamour

Actor
Movie
1934

Captured

Actor
Colonel Carl Ehrlich
Movie
1933

The Secrets of the Blue Room

Actor
Captain Walter Brink
Movie
1933

Rockabye

Actor
Antoine De Sola
Movie
1933

Grand Slam

Actor
Peter Stanislavsky
Movie
1933

Little WomenStream

Actor
Prof. Bhaer
Movie
1933
89%

Sing, Sinner, Sing

Actor
Phil Carida
Movie
1933

Secret of the Blue Room

Actor
Captain Walter Brink
Movie
1933

Downstairs

Actor
Albert
Movie
1932

The Vice Squad

Actor
Stephen Lucarno
Movie
1931

City Streets

Actor
Big Fellow Maskal
Movie
1931

Strictly Dishonorable

Actor
Gus
Movie
1931

Unfaithful

Actor
Colin Graham
Movie
1931

Working Girls

Actor
Dr. Joseph Von Schrader
Movie
1931

The Beloved Bachelor

Actor
Michael Morda
Movie
1931

The Right to Love

Actor
Eric
Movie
1930

The Benson Murder Case

Actor
Adolph Mohler
Movie
1930

Slightly Scarlet

Actor
Malatroff
Movie
1930

Anybody's Woman

Actor
Gustave Saxon
Movie
1930

Grumpy

Actor
Berci
Movie
1930

The Devil's Holiday

Actor
Dr. Reynolds
Movie
1930

Young Eagles

Actor
Von Baden
Movie
1930

Half Way to Heaven

Actor
Nick Pogli
Movie
1929

Loves of an Actress

Actor
Dr. Durande
Movie
1928

Two Lovers

Actor
Don Ramon de Linea
Movie
1928

Manhattan Cocktail

Actor
Boris Renov
Movie
1928