Trivia

In 1934 he played at the side of yet unknown Errol Flynn in Murder at Monte Carlo.

He learned English intensively in London , and played initially small film roles . Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk (1935) was the only film with him in the lead role .

Paul Graetz fled on February 28, 1933, the Nazis to England. His Jewish background and the critique of National Socialism, which he brought in his plays to express threatened to be him under the new regime 's undoing.

In 1928, he appeared on the comedian and cabaret in old Bavaria.

With the seizure of power by the National Socialists the Jew Paul Graetz had to emigrate to London in 1933 and two years later to Hollywood.

Actor Paul Graetz began his career on small stages in Germany before he was spotted and promoted by the legendary Max Reinhardt.

After contemporary and classic roles Paul Graetz took part at Reinhardt's cabaret "Schall und Rauch" and became a very popular comedian in Berlin.

Paul Graetz was born as son of a Jewish merchant family.

In 1916 he joined the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, where he made his debut under the director Max Reinhardt in The Merchant of Venice.

In 1925 Graetz retired from the ensemble of the Deutsches Theater and worked as a freelance film and stage actor.

In January 1933, shortly before the " seizure of power", Graetz picked up in a recording studio eyes of the big city by Kurt Tucholsky.

Paul Graetz was only able to unfold his talent for a brief time in the talkies of the 30's.

Graetz began his acting career in 1911 at the New Theatre in Frankfurt am Main.

In 1931 Graetz joined again into a performance of Max Reinhardt, a production of The Tales of Hoffmann at the Grosses Schauspielhaus. In film/movies, he played mostly comic and grotesque characters.

In February 1937 , shortly before the start of filming of the movie Marie Walewska (Conquest) with Greta Garbo , Graetz died at the age of only 46 years .