Biography

With almost 300 credits from big to small screen characters, he's best remembered as the chief reporter sending out his minions to find out what "Rosebud" means in Orson Welles's CITIZEN KANE.

Had been depressed over his flagging career, and had spent nearly all of his earnings through compulsive gambling. He committed suicide by taking an overdose of sleeping pills.

Technically his role is Citizen Kane is one of the most important, sending out the reporter to gather information about Kane's life, which is the entire plot. He worked again with Orson Welles in The Lady from Shanhai.

Had played an adversary in a handful of The Three Stooges slapstick shorts.

Swarthy-looking Dutch-born actor in America from the late 1920s who came to films following Broadway and appeared in hundreds of films as a minor heavy.