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- Victor Arnold was a Vienna born comic actor of the German stage during the second decade of the 2oth century, who mentored the future film director Ernst Lubitsch in Berlin and encouraged him to go for comedy roles rather than heavy drama.Arnold was short and stocky and not especially good looking and used these characteristics to good effect. He worked with pioneering director Max Reinhardt and with Felix Hollaender. Arnold and Lubitsch played together in the films The Perfect Thirty Six and The Pride of the Firm.Arnold also was in an early version of the Sumurun story which Lubitsch would later film. In the lead up to WWII, Arnold's mental health deteriorated and he was put in a sanatorium after which he cut his throat in October of 1914.
- IMDb mini biography by: Lawrence Chadbourne
- The actor Victor Arnold was an esteemed player on the German stages. In spite of the resistance of many well-known stage actors to the film business he wasn't afraid of taking part in the much disdained medium film.
- Victor Arnold would have played an important part in the up-and-coming silent film, but his early death snatched a great actor from the film and theater world.
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