- Appeared in four films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: A Night at the Opera (1935), Only Angels Have Wings (1939), Ninotchka (1939) and To Be or Not to Be (1942).
- Appears in gym clothes as a portly physical trainer, Herr Hanfstangel, and even gets to sing part of Irving Berlin's "Let's Go Slumming on Park Avenue" in the grand finale of On the Avenue (1937).
- His remains were interred at Julian Cemetery in Julian, San Diego County, CA. His location plot is first section on the right and end of first row.
- Daughter Senta Rumann was born on 1/4/1906 in Germany. Details of her life are unknown as is her date of death.
- Around 1936, Ruman modified his screen name from Siegfried Rumann to Sig Ruman in an attempt to make it a little less German-sounding, as anti-German prejudice was rising at that time, just prior to the outbreak of the Second World War.
- Despite declining health during the 1950s and 1960s, Ruman continued to appear in films and made many guest appearances on television. He guest-starred as pompous Broadway director Eric von Bissell in the memorable 1965 episode of The Addams Family, "My Fair Cousin Itt".
- Sig Ruman was a German-American character actor known for his portrayals of pompous and often stereotypically Teutonic officials or villains in more than 100 films.
- After emigrating to the United States in 1924, his acting career blossomed. Befriending playwright George S. Kaufman and theater critic Alexander Woollcott, he enjoyed success in many Broadway productions.
- He studied electrical engineering, then began working as an actor and musician[3] before serving with the Imperial German Army during World War I.
- His German accent and large stature kept him busy during World War II, playing sinister Nazi characters in a series of wartime thrillers.
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