The Twilight Zone: Deaths-Head Revisited
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Deaths-Head Revisited
Season 3, Episode 9
An unrepentant former Nazi officer (Oscar Beregi) visits the ruins of the concentration camp where he had been posted. Becker: Joseph Schildkraut. Innkeeper: Karen Verne. Taxi Driver: Robert Boone. Doctor: Ben Wright. Victim: Chuck Fox.
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1961
English
HD Level Unknown
Sci-fi
Anthology
Suspense/thriller
Cult Classic
Cast & Crew
Joseph Schildkraut
(Actor)
.. Becker
Karen Verne
(Actor)
.. Innkeeper
Robert Boone
(Actor)
.. Taxi Driver
Kaaren Verne
(Actor)
.. Innkeeper
Ben Wright
(Actor)
.. Doctor
Chuck Fox
(Actor)
.. Victim
Oscar Beregi
(Actor)
.. Captain Lutze
Oscar Beregi Jr.
(Actor)
Robert Boon
(Actor)
More Information
Did You Know..
Joseph Schildkraut
(Actor)
.. Becker
Born:
March 22, 1896
Died: January 21, 1964
Died: January 21, 1964
Trivia:
The son of esteemed actor Rudolph Schildkraut, he trained for the stage under Albert Basserman -- his father's rival. Accompanying his father on tour, he went to the U.S. in 1910 and remained till 1913; there he enrolled at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Back in Germany, Schildkraut joined his father in the Berlin stage company of Max Reinhardt and quickly rose to stardom. He moved to the U.S. in 1920; within a year he was a major matinee idol on Broadway. Meanwhile, having appeared in a small number of German films, he began playing suave leading men in American silents; by the mid 1930s he had moved into character roles, often villainous. He remained a busy screen actor (between stage roles) until 1948, when he took a decade off from movies; he returned to the screen to reprise his stage role in the film version of The Diary of Anne Frank (1959), following which he appeared in only two more movies. For his portrayal of Captain Dreyfus in The Life of Emile Zola (1937), he won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar. He authored an autobiography, My Father and I (1959).
Karen Verne
(Actor)
.. Innkeeper
Robert Boone
(Actor)
.. Taxi Driver
Kaaren Verne
(Actor)
.. Innkeeper
Born:
April 06, 1918
Died: December 23, 1967
Died: December 23, 1967
Trivia:
Berlin-born actress Kaaren Verne fled her homeland in 1938 when it became obvious (to her, at least) that Hitler was hazardous to her future well-being. Verne made her English-language movie debut in the 1939 British film Ten Days in Paris, and the following year had settled in Hollywood. At first, the studios tried to play down her German heritage by briefly changing her professional name to Catherine Young, but after America's entry into World War II, the publicity value of a Teutonic actress who'd turned her back on Naziism was too good to avoid. During this period, Verne was the wife of Peter Lorre, with whom she appeared in All Through the Night. Even after their divorce, Lorre was known to turn to Verne in moments of crisis, often telephoning her late at night to tearfully pour out his insecurities. Kaaren Verne remained in films until her death, essaying worldly-wise character vignettes in such films as Ship of Fools (1965) and Torn Curtain (1966).
Ben Wright
(Actor)
.. Doctor
Born:
May 05, 1915
Died: July 02, 1989
Died: July 02, 1989
Trivia:
More familiar for his radio work than his film appearances, American actor Ben Wright was active professionally from the early '40s. Dialects were a specialty with Wright, as witness his two-year hitch as Chinese bellhop Hey Boy on the radio version of Have Gun Will Travel. Most of Wright's film roles were supporting or bit appearances in such productions as A Man Called Peter (1955), Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), My Fair Lady (1964), and The Fortune Cookie (1964). On TV, Wright was one of Jack Webb's stock company (including fellow radio veterans Virginia Gregg, Stacy Harris, and Vic Perrin) on the '60s version of Dragnet. Ben Wright's most frequently seen film appearance was as the humorless Nazi functionary Herr Zeller in the 1965 megahit The Sound of Music.
Chuck Fox
(Actor)
.. Victim
Oscar Beregi
(Actor)
.. Captain Lutze
Born:
May 12, 1918
Died: November 01, 1976
Died: November 01, 1976
Trivia:
The son of celebrated Hungarian stage and screen actor Oscar Beregi Sr., Oscar Beregi Jr. made his American film bow in 1953's Call Me Madam. During the next two decades, the younger Beregi excelled as a movie and TV villain, often playing sadistic Nazis. He could be seen in virtually every major network TV program, making three memorable appearances on The Twilight Zone alone. Though Oscar Beregi's big-screen roles were often small, he made the most of such broadly drawn characters as the scowling U-boat commandant in The Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964) and the taunting prison guard in Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein (1974).
Oscar Beregi Jr.
(Actor)
Born:
May 12, 1918
Robert Boon
(Actor)
Born:
October 26, 1916
