biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1917–93)
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| biography:
| Film actor and singer, born in Los Angeles, California, USA. The son of a Russian immigrant opera baritone, he studied voice in Vienna and sang in the chorus at Radio City Music Hall. He then followed his wife, dancer Helene Mussel, to Paris where he established himself as a nightclub singer and actor, becoming widely known as protégé and friend of Edith Piaf. His film credits include a series of French action thrillers in which he played a tough, hard-drinking American private eye, Lemmy Caution. He also wrote a novel, La Proprietaire, published in English as The Godplayer (1976). |
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