A colour portrait of the film star Oskar Werner pictured in Los Angeles in 1952
A colour portrait of the film star Oskar Werner pictured in Los Angeles in 1952. He is smiling at the camera. Born Oskar Josef Bschliessmayer in Vienna in 1922, he was an Austrian stage actor, starring in the William Shakespeare repertoire, until his film debut in Der Engel mit der Posaune in 1948. In 1951 he starred in the English language movie Decision Before Dawn. In 1961 he starred in Francois Truffaut's Jules et Jim, and became an international star as a result. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in 1965 for Ship of Fools. Other starring roles were in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Fahrenheit 451, and The Shoes of the Fisherman. Werner also played the murderer opposite Peter Falk in an episode of the Columbo TV series entitled Playback (1975).
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