- Born
- Died
- Height5′ 0¼″ (1.53 m)
- Educated in Czernowitz, his musical education began in a synagogue choir. In 1924 he moved to Berlin to continue his musical studies. His opera debut was in Berlin in 1929, his film career began in 1931 with "Liebesexpress". His most famous movie was the 1933 film "Ein Lied geht um die Welt." He lived in Berlin, Vienna, Brussels, Amsterdam, and Nice and died in a Swiss internment camp for illegal refugees in 1942.
- IMDb mini biography by: <mmayer@uci.edu>
- With an engagement for a German radio broadcast began his successful international career.
- The days that came with the Nazis was everything else than pleasant. As a Jew he had already to escape from the Nazis in 1933 and fled to Vienna. There he could stay for the next five years but then the Nazis caught up with.
- His popularity was so great that he even took part in several very successful musicals, e.g. "Ein Lied geht um die Welt (1933) with Viktor de Kowa and "Heut' ist der schönste Tag in meinem Leben" (1936).
- On the 16th November 1942 the heart of Joseph Schmidt knocked off beating, a wonderful voice became silent for ever.
- In spite of a height of 1.54 Joseph Schmidt became one of the most dazzling singing stars of his time.
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