German actor and film director
Character actor, stage director and singer whose career highlights were on the Berlin stage during the 1920s (particularly under the direction of Max Reinhardt and Erwin Piscator) and in Swiss exile during the Nazi era directing and acting in plays by Brecht, Shakespeare, Goldoni, Lorca and Pagnol at the Zrcher Schauspielhaus.
Died, along with 28 others, in a train crash near Aitrang in the Allgu on February 9 1971, three months prior to a planned worldwide tour with the play "Puntilla".
Married to the dancer and writer Elfiede Kuhr (later named Jo Mihaly).
