Frederick Valk, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Frederick Valk

German actor

Date of Birth: 10-Jun-1895

Place of Birth: Hamburg, Germany

Date of Death: 23-Jul-1956

Profession: actor, television actor, film actor

Nationality: United Kingdom, German Empire

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Frederick Valk (10 June 1895 – 23 July 1956) was a German-born Jewish stage and screen actor of Czech Jewish descent who fled to the United Kingdom in the late 1930s to escape Nazi persecution, and subsequently became a naturalised British citizen. Despite making his later career in the English-speaking world, Valk never attempted to shed his heavy Mitteleuropa accent in either his stage or film work, and it became a trademark, particularly in film where he was often the first choice for a role which called for a German or Central European accent.