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Mischa Auer

Acting

Born November 17, 1905 · Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]

Died March 5, 1967

Also known as Mikhail Semyonovich Unskovsky · Mischa Ounskowsky · Misha Auer

Biography

Mischa Auer was a Russian-born American stage, screen, and television actor, in films from 1928.

Awards & recognition

  • Academy AwardBest Supporting Actor · 1937 · nominated

Filmography36 titles

Bachelor in Paris

1952as Comte Marcel de Sarliac

My Man Godfrey

1936as Carlo

You Can't Take It with You

1938as Kolenkhov

Scarlet Dawn

1932as Sergei (Uncredited)

Working Girls

1931as Elsie's Boyfriend (uncredited)

Destry Rides Again

1939as Boris

And Then There Were None

1945as Nikita "Nikki" Starloff

Confidential Report

1955as The Professor

Brewster's Millions

1945as Mikhail Mikhailovich

The Last of the Mohicans

1932as Montcalm

Clear All Wires!

1933as Arab leader (uncredited)

Three Smart Girls

1936as Count Arisztid

The Crusades

1935as Monk

Around the World

1943as Mischa Auer

The Flaming Signal

1933as Manu--High Priest

Mata Hari

1931as Firing Squad Victim (uncredited)

Winterset

1936as Radical

Corruption

1933as Volkov

The Mighty

1929as Hood

Arrivederci, Baby!

1966as Romeo

Naughty Girl

1956as Igor, Ballet Master

For You I Die

1947as Alec Shaw

The Benson Murder Case

1930as Albert Brecker (uncredited)

Seven Sinners

1940as Sasha

The Rage of Paris

1938as Mike, Head Waiter

Rasputin and the Empress

1932as Butler Pouring Drinks at Party (uncredited)

Inside the Lines

1930as Amahdi

The Drums of Jeopardy

1931as Peter

Sucker Money

1933as Swami Yomurda

Condemned to Live

1935as Zan

School for Love

1955as Berger

One Rainy Afternoon

1936as Stage Actor

Pick a Star

1937as Rinaldo Lopez

The Intruder

1933as Wild Man

The Monster Walks

1932as Hanns Krug

The Christmas That Almost Wasn't

1966as Jonathan, the Elf Foreman