Trivia

The Teutonic actor began acting in German films billed as Rudolph Amendt and continued to use his real name after moving to Hollywood in the early 1930s. In 1938 he changed his moniker to Robert O. Davis, for obvious reasons, and used it throughout WWII playing a series of Nazi spies and officers. He changed his name once again to Rudolph Anders in post-war years.

In the 1950s he was able to escape playing German officers for a time and focused on playing foreign-accented diplomats, scientists and doctors. His very last acting appearance, however, was, true to form, as a Nazi officer on a TV episode of "Garrison's Gorillas" in 1968. He then retired.

On August 27, 1928, Amendt traveled to the United States for the first time for a guest performance at the Deutsches Theater in Milwaukee; since May 2, 1932, he lived permanently in the United States. One day before Christmas Eve 1938, Amendt was naturalized, but returned temporarily to Europe in 1949.

His German-accented English confined him largely to "accent roles", and during World War II to villain parts, although not leading roles as his small build, wide eyes, soft voice and naturally quiet demeanor did not allow him to appear overly menacing.

The Baden-Württemberg native filled the classic role of German US emigrants: he played foreigners of all kinds - butlers and noblemen, officers and bartenders, police officers and doctors.

Amendt had worked as a theatre actor during the Weimar Republic and was brought to the German provinces (e.g. to Königsberg in Prussia) as well as to Berlin (to the English-speaking theatre).

Towards the end of the 1960s, Rudolf Amendt retired from acting after a series of guest roles in individual episodes of television series.

Since 1933 he worked under the pseudonyms Rudolph Anders, Robert Davis and Robert O. Davis.

Amendt made his debut in front of a cinema camera in Germany during the end of the silent film era.

Anders was a German character actor who came to the United States after the rise of Hitler, and appeared in numerous American films in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s.