Sig Arno (born Siegfried Aron, 27 December 1895–17 August 1975 was a German film actor who appeared in such films as Pardon My Sarong, and The Mummy's Tomb. He may be best remembered from The Palm Beach Story (1942) as "Toto", the nonsense-talking mustachio'd little man who follows around Mary Astor's "Princess Centimillia".
Biography
Sig Arno was born in Hamburg, Germany. Before beginning to make films in 1920, he was well known in Germany as a stage comedian. He acted in ninety films in Germany – including G.W. Pabst's Pandora's Box with Louise Brooks – playing primarily comic roles, before leaving the country in 1933, due to the rise of Hitler. He worked in Europe until 1939, when he moved to Hollywood.
In the next twenty years he appeared in over fifty films, often playing waiters, maitre d's and "funny Europeans." Arno also appeared three times on Broadway, notably in the musical Song of Norway and the play Time Remembered by Jean Anouilh, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award as "Best Featured Actor in a Play" in 1958. In 1966, Arno won an honorary award at the German Film Awards "for his continued outstanding individual contributions to the German film over the years."
Arno, who besides acting was also a successful portrait painter, was married three times:
Caroline Dahms (1922–1932, ended in divorce, 1 child)
Barbara Kiranoff (1934–1953, ended in divorce)
Kitty Mattern (1953–1975, ended with his death)
He died from Parkinson's disease in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California on August 17, 1975, at the age of 80.
Notes
^ a b c d Erickson, Hal Biography (Allmovie)
^ Sig Arno at the Internet Movie Database
^ Sig Arno at the Internet Broadway Database
^ Time Remembered at the Internet Broadway Database
^ IBDB Awards
^ IMDB Awards
^ IMDB Biography
External links
Sig Arno at the Internet Movie Database
Sig Arno at Allmovie
Sig Arno at Virtual History Film (photos)
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Categories: 1895 births | 1975 deaths | American film actors | American stage actors | Deaths from Parkinson's disease | German actors | German immigrants to the United States | German-Americans
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