Hugo Schuster (22 November 1886 – 10 July 1976) was a German-British
actor
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Biography
Born in
Aachen
Aachen is the List of cities in North Rhine-Westphalia by population, 13th-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and the List of cities in Germany by population, 27th-largest city of Germany, with around 261,000 inhabitants.
Aachen is locat ...
,
Germany
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, Schuster began his career acting at Otto Brahm's Berlin
Lessing Theater
The Lessing Theater was a theatre in the Mitte (locality), Mitte district of Berlin, Germany. It opened in 1888 and was destroyed in April 1945 in a Bombing of Berlin in World War II, bombing raid; its ruins were demolished after World War II.
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. In the 1920s, he acted in the leading German theatres. After 1945, he had roles in English theatre plays, films, television, and radio - such as the
BBC
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German service. From 1956 to 1963 he lived in
Germany
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, acting in German productions. However, he did not feel at peace in
post-war Germany and returned to his home in
Golders Green
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Personal life
Hugo married actress, Sybil Rares.
Filmography
References
External links
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1886 births
1976 deaths
British male film actors
German male film actors
German emigrants to the United Kingdom
Actors from Aachen
Male actors from North Rhine-Westphalia