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Martin Kosleck (March 24, 1904 (Barkotzen, Germany) – January 15, 1994 (Santa Monica, California)) was a German character actor of Russian descent who would appear in several American films and television shows, playing mostly Nazis, including five times playing Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi Propaganda Minister. Kosleck would begin his acting on the pre-war Berlin stage, working for Max Reinhardt. Because of his anti-Nazi views, he would leave Germany in the early 1930s, just ahead of a Gestapo death squad, later learning that he was tried in absentia and sentenced to death. He would move first to Britain, then to the U.S., where he would first work on the stage before receiving, because of his icy demeanor and piercing stare which would help to epitomize on screen the kind of blind obedience

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rdfs:comment	Martin Kosleck (March 24, 1904 (Barkotzen, Germany) – January 15, 1994 (Santa Monica, California)) was a German character actor of Russian descent who would appear in several American films and television shows, playing mostly Nazis, including five times playing Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi Propaganda Minister. Kosleck would begin his acting on the pre-war Berlin stage, working for Max Reinhardt. Because of his anti-Nazi views, he would leave Germany in the early 1930s, just ahead of a Gestapo death squad, later learning that he was tried in absentia and sentenced to death. He would move first to Britain, then to the U.S., where he would first work on the stage before receiving, because of his icy demeanor and piercing stare which would help to epitomize on screen the kind of blind obedience
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abstract	Martin Kosleck (March 24, 1904 (Barkotzen, Germany) – January 15, 1994 (Santa Monica, California)) was a German character actor of Russian descent who would appear in several American films and television shows, playing mostly Nazis, including five times playing Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi Propaganda Minister. Kosleck would begin his acting on the pre-war Berlin stage, working for Max Reinhardt. Because of his anti-Nazi views, he would leave Germany in the early 1930s, just ahead of a Gestapo death squad, later learning that he was tried in absentia and sentenced to death. He would move first to Britain, then to the U.S., where he would first work on the stage before receiving, because of his icy demeanor and piercing stare which would help to epitomize on screen the kind of blind obedience to Hitler that everyone would grow to hate, his big break in the 1939 film, Confessions of a Nazi Spy, where he would perform his first portrayal of Goebbels. After that film, he would spend most of his film career protraying, besides Goebbels, German army officers, SS troopers, and concentration camp officers, as well as spies, agents and psychopaths. Unlike others, who feared being typecasted for playing such roles, he had no such compunctions because of his anti-Nazis views. He would appear in such films as Foreign Correspondent, The Mummy's Curse, House of Horrors, She-Wolf of London, The Beginning or the End, 36 Hours and Which Way to the Front?, and such television shows as The Hallmark Hall of Fame, Studio One, The Rifleman, The Outer Limits, Get Smart, It Takes a Thief, Night Gallery, Search and Love, American Style, including one episode of the 1960s sitcom, Hogan's Heroes, before being sidelined by a heart attack. His last screen appearance would be in the 1980 film, The Man with Bogart's Face. Kosleck would die on January 15, 1994, in a convalescent home in Santa Monica, California, while recovering from abdominal surgery.

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