Post by teleadm on Oct 11, 2019 20:14:34 GMT
Siegfried Carl Alban Rumann was born 135 years ago in Hamburg Germany, and once served in the Imperial German Army during WWI, took up acting, went to America in 1924, befriended playwright George S. Kaufman and theater critic Alexander Woollcott, played the role of Praysing in the original Broadway production of Grand Hotel, the part was played by Wallace Beery in the 1932 movie.
Capable of tremendous comedic and dramatic performances, and a few touching roles too. A supporting actor supreme. His thick German accent could be
used as Dutch and Russian too, and nearly trademarked pompous angry characters that knows nothing when it all comes aroumd.
A favorite of Marx Brothers and Ernest Lubitsch and later Billy Wilder in smaller but important roles.
Ruman, sometimes spelled Rumann in movies, started his movie career in 1928, but it took it's time befoore he had created his persona.
As Baron von Gerhardt in The World Moves On 1934 with Louise Dresser, and directed by John Ford. Notable as the first Hollywood movie that got the new Code approval.
Herman Gottlieb in A Night at the Opera 1936
Dr. Leopold X. Steinberg in A Day at the Races 1937
As Dutchy (middle) in Howard Hawks' Only Angels Have Wings 1939
As Stalinist Comrade Iranoff who with two other comrades went decadentin Paris in Ninotchka 1939
As Emil von Hofer, (left) in Comrade X 1940
As Hoffman the Great (in parade uniform) in The Wagons Roll at Night 1941
Love Crazy 1941 as Dr Wuthering
"So they call me Concentration Camp Ehrhardt" in Lubitch's To Be or Not to Be 1942
German Nazi Sergeant in RKO's first Tarzan movie, Tarzan's Triumph 1943
Count von Pfefferman meets his old foe Chico and a vacuum cleamer in A Night in Casablanca 1946.
Despite declining health during the 1950s and 1960s, Ruman continued to appear in films and made many guest appearances on television.
Sgt. Johann Sebastian Schulz in Billy Wilder's Stalag 17 1953
The Glenn Miller Story 1954
Bowery Boys movie Spy Chasers (middle) 1955
Maverick tv episode Diamond in the Rough 1958.
On television he also appeared on The Untouchables 1959, Dinah Shore Show 1960, Petticoat Junction 1965, Addams Family 1965, The Man from UNCLE 1966, and four other episodes of Maverick in defferent roles.
Professor Winterhalter in Billy Wilder's The Fortune Cooke 1966, a small segment and the next to last of Sig.
Sig Ruman passed away with a heart attack on February 14, 1967, aged 82!
Thanks for watching!
Thoughts, ideas, oppinions, lists and favorites or/and anything Sig Ruman is offcourse very very welcome!
Capable of tremendous comedic and dramatic performances, and a few touching roles too. A supporting actor supreme. His thick German accent could be
used as Dutch and Russian too, and nearly trademarked pompous angry characters that knows nothing when it all comes aroumd.
A favorite of Marx Brothers and Ernest Lubitsch and later Billy Wilder in smaller but important roles.
Ruman, sometimes spelled Rumann in movies, started his movie career in 1928, but it took it's time befoore he had created his persona.
As Baron von Gerhardt in The World Moves On 1934 with Louise Dresser, and directed by John Ford. Notable as the first Hollywood movie that got the new Code approval.
Herman Gottlieb in A Night at the Opera 1936
Dr. Leopold X. Steinberg in A Day at the Races 1937
As Dutchy (middle) in Howard Hawks' Only Angels Have Wings 1939
As Stalinist Comrade Iranoff who with two other comrades went decadentin Paris in Ninotchka 1939
As Emil von Hofer, (left) in Comrade X 1940
As Hoffman the Great (in parade uniform) in The Wagons Roll at Night 1941
Love Crazy 1941 as Dr Wuthering
"So they call me Concentration Camp Ehrhardt" in Lubitch's To Be or Not to Be 1942
German Nazi Sergeant in RKO's first Tarzan movie, Tarzan's Triumph 1943
Count von Pfefferman meets his old foe Chico and a vacuum cleamer in A Night in Casablanca 1946.
Despite declining health during the 1950s and 1960s, Ruman continued to appear in films and made many guest appearances on television.
Sgt. Johann Sebastian Schulz in Billy Wilder's Stalag 17 1953
The Glenn Miller Story 1954
Bowery Boys movie Spy Chasers (middle) 1955
Maverick tv episode Diamond in the Rough 1958.
On television he also appeared on The Untouchables 1959, Dinah Shore Show 1960, Petticoat Junction 1965, Addams Family 1965, The Man from UNCLE 1966, and four other episodes of Maverick in defferent roles.
Professor Winterhalter in Billy Wilder's The Fortune Cooke 1966, a small segment and the next to last of Sig.
Sig Ruman passed away with a heart attack on February 14, 1967, aged 82!
Thanks for watching!
Thoughts, ideas, oppinions, lists and favorites or/and anything Sig Ruman is offcourse very very welcome!
