Leonard Steckel
Leonard Steckel was a German-Jewish actor and director of stage and screen.
Steckel was born as Leonhard Steckel in Knihinin, a Galician town that is today a district of the city Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. He began his career as a stage actor and spent the duration of World War II in exile in Zürich, Switzerland, where he had gone to work at the Schauspielhaus Zürich. It was during this time that he began to direct. Steckel was killed in a major rail accident on 9 February 1971 in Aitrang, West Germany.
Partial filmography
Phantoms of Happiness - GefängnisarztM - Man The Adventurer of Tunis - FerreroThe Daredevil - Barini, Inhaber American HippodromThe Captain from Köpenick - Krakauer, ein TrödlerSecret Agent - Oberst SalitThe Company's in Love - Harry Bing - RegisseurGitta Discovers Her Heart - Der PrimasNights in Port Said - Le levantinI [Do Not Want to Know Who You Are] - Alvarez ZambesiMieter Schulze gegen alle Spione im Savoy-Hotel - Almassy, AntiquitätenhändlerKampf um Blond - Der LevantinerThe House of Dora Green - SucharowA [Song for You (film)|A Song for You] - Opern-RegisseurHände aus dem Dunkel - Fed Harras, PropagandachefInvisible Opponent - SantosPalace Hotel - Minor Role The Venus of Tivoli - DirectorSouthern Nights - GiuseppeMeines Vaters Pferde - SchlachtauerThe Seven Dresses of Katrin - Mödel, Theater-DirektorViktoria und ihr Husar The [Last Summer (1954 film)|The Last Summer] - Kommissar BerkiSpring Song - Dr. FalconiThe Eternal Waltz - Baron Carlo TodescoBeloved Enemy - Oberst Junot Love Without Illusions - Professor DürkheimDu mein stilles Tal - DoktorBallerina - OpernintendantThe Captain from Köpenick - Adolph WormserWithout You All Is Darkness - Dr. BräunerStresemann - Aristide BriandEscape from Sahara - Ben AchmedThe Doctor of Stalingrad - Major Dr. Kresin, DistriktarztThe [Green Devils of Monte Cassino] - ErzabtMajestät auf Abwegen - FilmregisseurRomarei, das Mädchen mit den grünen Augen - Sir Boris OlinzoffFor Love and Others - Ihr VaterJa, so ein Mädchen mit sechzehn - ArztMarili - Ludwig OstertagSweetheart of the Gods - FurstThe Secret of [the Black Trunk] - Dr. Daniel Bransby, ArztThe Phone Rings Every Night - Th. Th. Th. Meyer - DehnThe Visit - MinisterOnce a Greek - Maire Dutour