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Image info
Artist | Theatre Magazine Company; Vandamm Studio, photographer |
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Credit | Theatre Magazine, Volume 52, Number 6, January 1931 (page 29) |
License | pd |
Desc | Promotional photograph of Hortense Alden, Sam Jaffe and Siegfried Rumann (Sig Ruman) in the original Broadway production of Grand Hotel Caption reads as follows:Kringelein is a poor clerk, doomed to early death by a bad heart, who has come to Berlin with his savings for a last fling. Preysing encounters him with Flaemmchen, a stenographer |
Usage | Public domain |
German-American actor
Sig Ruman is ...
Dead
Born | 11 October 1884 in Hamburg |
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Died | 14 February 1967 in Julian |
Age | 82 years, 4 months |
Cause | myocardial infarction |
Sex or gender | male |
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Country of citizenship | Germany and United States of America |
Manner of death | natural causes |
Occupation | actor and film actor |
About Sig Ruman
Siegfried Albon Rumann (October 11, 1884 – February 14, 1967) billed as Sig Ruman, was a German-American actor known for his portrayals of pompous and often stereotypically Teutonic officials or villains in more than 100 films.
About Death
Ruman died of a heart attack on February 14, 1967, outside his home in Julian, California. He was 82 and was survived by his wife.
Films - which cast members have died?
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A Night at the Opera
1935 film by Sam Wood

White Christmas
1954 US film directed by Michael Curtiz

To Be or Not to Be
1942 film by Ernst Lubitsch

Only Angels Have Wings
1939 film by Howard Hawks

Remember?
1939 film by Norman Z. McLeod

The Song of Bernadette
1943 film by Henry King

Stalag 17
1953 film by Billy Wilder

The Emperor Waltz
1948 film by Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder

The Wedding Night
1935 film by King Vidor, Samuel Goldwyn, Gary Cooper, Ralph Bellamy, Anna Sten, Edwin H. Knopf

Desperate Journey
1942 film by Raoul Walsh

Suez
1938 American film

A Day at the Races
1937 film by Sam Wood

Ninotchka
1939 film by John Waters, Ernst Lubitsch

The Fortune Cookie
1966 film by Billy Wilder

The Hitler Gang
1944 film by John Farrow

Nothing Sacred
1937 film by William A. Wellman

Heidi
1937 film by Allan Dwan

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
1940 film by William Dieterle

House of Frankenstein
1944 film by Erle C. Kenton

Government Girl
1943 film by Dudley Nichols

The Glenn Miller Story
1954 film by Anthony Mann

Maytime
1937 film by Robert Zigler Leonard

Houdini
1953 film by George Marshall

The Wings of Eagles
1957 film by John Ford

Night and Day
1946 biographical film about Cole Porter

Confessions of a Nazi Spy
1939 film by Anatole Litvak

It Happened Tomorrow
1944 film by René Clair

Think Fast, Mr. Moto
1937 film by Norman Foster

3 Ring Circus
1954 film by Joseph Pevney

Bitter Sweet
1940 American musical film

Living It Up
1954 film by Norman Taurog

The Princess Comes Across
1936 film by William K. Howard

On the Riviera
1951 film by Walter Lang

A Night in Casablanca
1946 Marx Brothers film

Seventh Heaven
1937 film by Henry King

Kisses for My President
1964 film by Curtis Bernhardt

The Great Waltz
American film, 1938

China Girl
1942 film by Henry Hathaway

The World Moves On
1934 film by John Ford

Border Incident
1949 film by Anthony Mann

Love Crazy
1941 film by Jack Conway

Way...Way Out
1966 film by Gordon Douglas

The Farmer Takes a Wife
1935 film by Victor Fleming

Tarzan Triumphs
1943 film by Wilhelm Thiele

Comrade X
1940 film by King Vidor

Crossroads
mystery film noir by Jack Conway

The Dolly Sisters
1945 film by Irving Cummings

She Went to the Races
1945 film by Willis Goldbeck

Never Say Die
1939 film by Elliott Nugent

The World in His Arms
1952 film by Raoul Walsh

This Is My Affair
1937 film by William A. Seiter

That Uncertain Feeling
1941 film by Ernst Lubitsch

Many Rivers to Cross
1955 film by Roy Rowland

Die Jungfrau auf dem Dach
1953 film by Otto Preminger

A Royal Scandal
1945 film by Otto Preminger, Ernst Lubitsch

Summer Storm
1944 film by Douglas Sirk

Honolulu
1939 film by Edward Buzzell

The Errand Boy
1961 film by Jerry Lewis

Shining Victory
1941 film by Irving Rapper

The Bold Caballero
1936 film by Wells Root

Thin Ice
1937 film by Sidney Lanfield

Under Pressure
1935 film

Paradise for Three
1938 film by Edward Buzzell

Love Under Fire
1937 film by George Marshall

Marie Galante
1934 film by Henry King

Four Sons
1940 film by Archie Mayo

Lancer Spy
1937 film by Gregory Ratoff
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