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Sig Arno More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth
27 December 1895, Hamburg, Germany

Date of Death
17 August 1975, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA (parkinson's disease)

Birth Name
Siegfried Aron

Spouse
Kitty Mattern (1953 - 17 August 1975) (his death)
Barbara Kiranoff (1934 - 1953) (divorced)
Caroline Dahms (1922 - 1932) (divorced) 1 child

Trivia

Brother of the actor Bruno Arno.

Was nominated for Broadway's 1958 Tony Award as Best Supporting or Featured Actor (Dramatic) for "Time Remembered."

Performed on Broadway infrequently from 1944-1959 (see "Other Works").

Prolific German-born character actor of stage and screen who left his country after the Nazis gained power in 1933. From 1939, he started a new career in Hollywood, playing comical or eccentric foreigners. He was also a noted portrait painter.



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