Paul Dahlke

He was an actor, known for Confessions of Felix Krull (1957), Flying Classroom (1954) and Das Fräulein von Barnhelm (1940). He was married to Elfe Gerhart.

With his engagement at the Deutsche Theater he managed his breakthrough and became soon an ideal actor in plays by Gerhard Hauptmann. Paul Dahlke worked at the Deutsche Theater till 1944.

The theater director Heinz Hilpert, who had engaged Paul Dahlke for several plays before, gave him also his first role in a movie called "Liebe, Tod und Teufel" (1934). He became soon established in the film business in the following years and impersonated powerful men and plain souls with all their facets.

Throughout the 1930s he worked with popular actors like Emil Jannings, Zarah Leander, Lil Dagover or Lída Baarová.

German star character actor, trained at the Max Reinhardt Academy in Berlin, 1927-28. On stage from 1929, after 1931 coming into his own in leading roles at the Deutsches Theater until 1944. Subsequently became an ensemble member of the Munich Kammerspiele (1946-49). He also acted in films from 1934, often as dependable professional men, senior officers, naive, cuckolded husbands (excellent in Romanze in Moll (1943)), academics or bankers. He was popularly cast in humorous or crusty roles on German television during the 1970's, as well as being the dubbing voice for English-speaking stars Vincent Price, Lee J. Cobb and Charles Laughton.

Paul Dahlke was born on April 12, 1904 in Groß-Streitz, Pomerania, Germany as Paul Victor Ernst Dahlke.