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- Leonard Steckel was born on January 18, 1901 in Knihinin, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine]. He was an actor and director, known for Notorious (1946), Ben-Hur (1959) and The Great Dictator (1940). He died on February 9, 1971 in Aitrang, Bavaria, Germany.
- Character actor, stage director and singer whose career highlights were on the Berlin stage during the 1920's (particularly under the direction of Max Reinhardt and Erwin Piscator) and in Swiss exile during the Nazi era directing and acting in plays by Brecht, Shakespeare, Goldoni, Lorca and Pagnol at the Zürcher Schauspielhaus.
- Died, along with 28 others, in a train crash near Aitrang in the Allgäu on February 9 1971, three months prior to a planned worldwide tour with the play "Puntilla".
- Married to the dancer and writer Elfiede Kuhr (later named Jo Mihaly).
- Leonard Steckel should experience a late height with a world tour with Brecht's "Puntila", but his journey to Zurich ended in a train catastrophe by Aitrang with 28 dead men and women, among them Leonard Steckel.
- He made first experiences as a director from 1928.
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