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- Birth nameIsser Kac
- Kurt Katch was born on January 28, 1896 in Grodno, Poland, Russian Empire [now Hrodna, Belarus]. He was an actor, known for The Mask of Dimitrios (1944), The Seventh Cross (1944) and The Mummy's Curse (1944). He was married to Hinda Ryfka Kleinlerer. He died on August 14, 1958 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- SpouseHinda Ryfka Kleinlerer(March 4, 1938 - August 14, 1958) (his death, 1 child)
- Bald character actor, a Polish Jew, who acquired the skills of his trade under the tutelage of Max Reinhardt in Vienna. Though he was often destined to be cast in Hollywood as monocled Nazis, he himself left Poland after Hitler's rise to power and found his way to the U.S. in 1937.
- Former player in Yiddish theater who became a Hollywood character actor of the 40's and 50's, often in sinister roles.
- In late autumn 1939, Max Reinhardt's former right-hand man, Otto Preminger, cast him in the anti-Nazi play "Margin for Error" in the role of German consul Karl Baumer, a role that Preminger himself had previously played.
- Isser Katsch (also known as Katz) was originally active in the wine trade. At the outbreak of World War I, Katsch was drafted into the Russian Tsarist army. In the same year, 1914, he was taken prisoner by the Germans.
- Based in Hollywood since 1941, Katsch now Americanized himself into "Katch.".
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