Carl Esmond

(1902-2004)

Austrian actor

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Carl Esmond (born Karl Simon; June 14, 1902– December 4, 2004) was an Austrian-born American film and stage actor, born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. Although his age was given as 33 in the passenger list when he arrived in the US in January 1938, in his naturalization petition his birth year is stated as 1902. His stage names were Willy Eichberger and Charles Esmond and finally Carl Esmond. He trained at Vienna's State Academy of Dramatic Arts, and made his film debut in the operetta The Emperor's Waltz (1933). He was active in the Viennese genre of shallow romantic comedies so popular in the Austria of the interwar period.

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Born	Willy Eichberger 14 June 1902 Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria)
Died	4 December 2004 (aged 102) Brentwood, Los Angeles, United States
Zodiac	Gemini
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