Lionel Royce, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Lionel Royce

american-austrian actor

Date of Birth: 30-Mar-1891

Place of Birth: Dolyna, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 01-Apr-1946

Profession: stage actor, film actor

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Lionel Royce (born Leon Moriz Reiss; March 30, 1891 – April 1, 1946), known also during his European career as Leo Reuss, was an Austrian-American actor of stage and screen.
He began his career in theater in Vienna, Austria in 1919, before moving to Berlin in 1925.
Being Jewish, his work began to be restricted in the 1930s in Nazi Germany.
Fleeing the Nazis he returned to Austria in 1936, where to hide his heritage, he created the persona of Kaspar Brandhofer, a Tyrolian peasant, and became a sensation as a natural actor on the stage in Vienna.
When he admitted his ruse, he became blacklisted in Austria, after which he emigrated to the United States in 1937.
He had an active film career in the United States, appearing in almost 40 films between 1938 and 1946.
While on tour with the USO, he died in Manila in 1946.