This lean, incisive, basso-voiced Swiss actor with the unsettling mephistophelean countenance was the son of a Galician-Jewish merchant. Pinkas Braun began his chosen vocation at the age of eighteen as an extra with the Zürcher Schauspielhaus .
Was longtime companion of actress Ingrid Resch.
Since 1959 exclusive translator into German of all works originally written by Edward Albee.
Up to 1956 member of the ensemble of theatre Schauspielhaus in Zurich (Switzerland).
Father of Jo Kern (with Karin Kernke ).
