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"Foreboding,
shaven-headed Polish actor Kurt Katch studied
acting and directing with the fabled Viennese
impresario Max Reinhardt. Katch went on to organize
Berlin's Kulturbund Deutschen Juden Theater and a
Yiddish-speaking troupe in Warsaw. When Hitler rose
to power, the Jewish Katch saw the handwriting on
the wall and came to the U.S. in 1937. He
established himself as a movie villain in the
1940s, most often cast as a smirking, monocled
Nazi. In films until 1958's The Young Lions, Kurt
Katch is best remembered by boys of all ages as the
unspeakable Hulagu Khan in that ultimate escapist
adventure yarn Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
(1944)."
From the All
Movie Guide on the Internet at the following
site:
http://thenewage.com/cg/AVG.exe?sql=2P_IDP|37029
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