“I read most everything that was in the library, and everything I could lay my hands on that had to do with Pasteur, with Lister, or with his contemporaries.”
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Paul Muni
Paul Muni was an American stage and film actor from Chicago. He started his acting career in the Yiddish theater and during the 1930s, he was considered one of the most prestigious actors at the Warner Bros. studio and was given the rare privilege of choosing his own parts.
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entertainment · American stage and film actor (1895–1967) · stage actor · film actor · television actor · actor · also Paul Muni, Meshilem Meier Weisenfreund, Muni Weisenfreund, Muni
Born 22 September 1895 · Died 25 August 1967 · Q182292
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1974· 1 entry
That while it was a serious gangster film, it also "manages both to congratulate journalism for its importance and to chastise it for its chicanery, by underlining the newspapers' complicity in promoting the underworld i
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1967· 2 entries
Died 1967-08-25.
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Muni died of a heart disorder in Montecito, California in 1967 at the age of 71.
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1956· 1 entry
Awarded Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play (1956).
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1952· 1 entry
Muni traveled to Italy to star in Stranger on the Prowl, directed by Joseph Losey, partly as an act of solidarity and support for blacklisted friends living abroad in exile
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1949· 1 entry
Muni began a run as Willy Loman in the first British production of Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
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1946· 2 entries
Played a rare comic role in Angel on My Shoulder
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Appeared on Broadway in A Flag is Born, written by Ben Hecht, to help promote the creation of a Jewish state in Israel
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1937· 2 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Actor for The Story of Louis Pasteur (1937).
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Muni played a Chinese peasant with a new bride in a film adaptation of Pearl Buck's novel The Good Earth
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1936· 1 entry
Won Volpi Cup for Best Actor for The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936).
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1935· 1 entry
Muni starred in Black Fury
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1921· 1 entry
Married Bella Finkel (February 8, 1898 – October 1, 1971), an actress in the Yiddish theatre and daughter of Moishe Finkel
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1895· 2 entries
Born 1895-09-22.
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As Frederich Meier Weisenfreund to a Jewish family in Lemberg, Galicia, then Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Lviv, Ukraine)
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