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Martin Kosleck(1904-1994)

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Martin Kosleck
A group of young adults trapped on a desert island find the water inhabited by a violent form of flesh-eating organisms.
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The Flesh Eaters (1964)
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His icy demeanor and piercing stare on screen epitomized the type of Nazi menace with a blind obedience to Hitler that everyone loved to hate. Kosleck portrayed Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda minister, 5 times, as well as various German army officers, SS troopers and concentration camp officers. He was also effective playing spies, agents, and psychopaths.
BornMarch 24, 1904
DiedJanuary 15, 1994(89)
BornMarch 24, 1904
DiedJanuary 15, 1994(89)
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Martin Kosleck in Manila Calling (1942)
Herbert Marshall, Albert Bassermann, Eduardo Ciannelli, and Martin Kosleck in Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Martin Kosleck in The Mummy's Curse (1944)
Martin Kosleck and Joel McCrea in Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Benny Bartlett, William 'Billy' Benedict, David Gorcey, Eddie Gribbon, Huntz Hall, Martin Kosleck, Gene Roth, and Hans Schumm in Smugglers' Cove (1948)
John Abbott, Lionel Atwill, Edgar Barrier, Walter Kingsford, and Martin Kosleck in Secrets of Scotland Yard (1944)
Peter Coe, Kay Harding, and Martin Kosleck in The Mummy's Curse (1944)
Philip Dorn, Martin Kosleck, and Anna Sten in The Fighting Guerrillas (1943)
Martin Kosleck and Dorothy Tree in Nazi Agent (1942)
Martin Kosleck, Mona Maris, and Hans Schumm in Underground (1941)
Rita Johnson, Martin Kosleck, and Stanley Ridges in Nick Carter, Master Detective (1939)
Virginia Christine, Martin Kosleck, and Dennis Moore in The Mummy's Curse (1944)

Known for

Barbara Bouchet, Aliza Gur, and Peter Mark Richman in Agent for H.A.R.M. (1966)
Agent for H.A.R.M.
2.3
  • Basil Malko
  • 1966
Laraine Day and Joel McCrea in Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Foreign Correspondent
7.5
  • Tramp
  • 1940
Virginia Grey, Rondo Hatton, Robert Lowery, and Joan Shawlee in House of Horrors (1946)
House of Horrors
6.1
  • Marcel De Lange
  • 1946
Basil Rathbone, Ellen Drew, and John Howard in The Mad Doctor (1940)
The Mad Doctor
6.4
  • Maurice Gretz
  • 1940

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  • The Man with Bogart's Face (1980)
    The Man with Bogart's Face
  • A Different Approach (1978)
    A Different Approach
  • Shaun Cassidy, Pamela Sue Martin, and Parker Stevenson in The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (1977)
    The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries
  • Redd Foxx and Demond Wilson in Sanford and Son (1972)
    Sanford and Son
  • George Peppard in Banacek (1972)
    Banacek
  • Love, American Style (1969)
    Love, American Style
  • A Day at the White House (1972)
    A Day at the White House
  • Anthony Franciosa, Doug McClure, and Hugh O'Brian in Search (1972)
    Search
    • (as Martin Koslek)
  • David Janssen in O'Hara, U.S. Treasury (1971)
    O'Hara, U.S. Treasury
  • Rod Serling in Night Gallery (1969)
    Night Gallery
  • Bruce Lee and James Franciscus in Longstreet (1971)
    Longstreet
  • John Banner, Robert Clary, Bob Crane, Richard Dawson, Ivan Dixon, Larry Hovis, and Werner Klemperer in Hogan's Heroes (1965)
    Hogan's Heroes
  • Jerry Lewis in Which Way to the Front? (1970)
    Which Way to the Front?
    • (uncredited)
  • It Takes a Thief (1968)
    It Takes a Thief
  • Wake Me When the War Is Over (1969)
    Wake Me When the War Is Over

Additional Crew

  • George Peppard, Rock Hudson, Nigel Green, and Guy Stockwell in Tobruk (1967)
    Tobruk

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Personal details

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    • March 24, 1904
    • Barkotzen, Pomerania, Germany [now Barkocin, Pomorskie, Poland]
    • January 15, 1994
    • Santa Monica, California, USA(following abdominal surgery)
    • Eleonora von MendelssohnMay 27, 1947 - January 24, 1951 (her death)
  • Other works
    Stage: Appeared in "The Tribune" in Berlin, Germany.
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    During the World War II era many German actors fled the Nazi regime and emigrated to Hollywood, where they often played evil SS officers or murderous Nazi spies. Some of them came to resent being typecast that way, but Kosleck--who was born in Germany to Russian Jewish parents--had no such compunctions. An outspoken anti-Nazi in the German film industry, his activities earned him the enmity of Josef Goebbels, who became the Nazi Propaganda Minister. When the Nazis finally took over Germany, an arrest warrant was issued for Kosleck. He learned that he had already been tried in absentia and sentenced to death, and he escaped Germany as an SS hit team was tracking him down. The experience only deepened his hatred of Adolf Hitler and Nazism, and he once told an interviewer that his playing Nazi killers and exposing people to the evils of Nazism was his small way of paying back the Nazis for what they had done to him and his country.

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