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name: "Georges Metaxa"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/georges-metaxa"
fi1m_id: "georges-metaxa"
imdb_id: "nm0582386"
tmdb_id: 113574
wikidata_id: "Q104627068"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "11 September 1899"
died: "8 December 1950"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T02:21:05.477684+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Georges Metaxa

## Identity

Georges Metaxa

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/georges-metaxa
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** georges-metaxa
- **IMDb ID:** nm0582386
- **TMDB ID:** 113574
- **Wikidata ID:** Q104627068
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Metaxa, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104627068, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0582386/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/113574

Actor. Born 11 September 1899 in Bucharest, Romania. Died 8 December 1950.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 11 September 1899, Bucharest, Romania
- **Died:** 8 December 1950
- **Also known as:** George Radu Metaxa, George-Radu Metaxa
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Metaxa, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104627068, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0582386/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/113574

## Biography

Georges Metaxa, also credited as George Radu Metaxa, was a Romanian-born American singer and actor. Born in Bucharest, he worked as a civil servant in Romania before emigrating to London in 1926 to pursue a career in musical comedy.

He appeared in stage productions including Noël Coward's *Bitter Sweet* and made his film debut in *Secrets of a Secretary* (1931). Metaxa is known for his role as bandleader Ricky Romero in the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musical *Swing Time* (1936), as well as supporting parts in films such as *The Mask of Dimitrios* (1944). He performed in other pictures including *Hi Diddle Diddle* (1943) and continued working in Hollywood until the mid-1940s.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, svenskfilmdatabas.se.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Swing Time* (1936), Fi1m 84, as Ricky Romero — [page](https://film.one/film/swing-time.md)

## Complete filmography (12)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Scotland Yard Investigator* (1945), as Henri
- *The Mask of Dimitrios* (1944), as Hans Werner
- *The West Side Kid* (1943), as Dr. Kenton
- *Hi Diddle Diddle* (1943), as Spinelli
- *Submarine Base* (1943), as Nazi Agent Anton Kroll
- *Background to Danger* (1943), as L.V. Bastaki (uncredited)
- *Paris Calling* (1941), as Room Service Waiter, at Benoit's hotel room
- *The Doctor Takes a Wife* (1940), as Jean Rovere
- *Sheik to Sheik* (1936), as Lt. Georges
- *Swing Time* (1936), as Ricky Romero — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/swing-time.md)
- *Kissing Time* (1933), as Lieutenant Juan Segovia
- *Secrets of a Secretary* (1931), as Frank D'Agnoll

## Gallery

- ![Georges Metaxa in American film Hi Diddle Diddle (1943)](https://film.one/media/person/3856566/gallery-413f2457a9ad.jpg) Georges Metaxa in American film Hi Diddle Diddle (1943) — Film screenshot (United Artists), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Georges_Metaxa_in_Hi_Diddle_Diddle_%281943%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Image of photograph of George Radu Metaxa (known professionally as Georges Metaxa, singer and actor, born at Bucharest, Romania, September 17, 1894 (1932)](https://film.one/media/person/3856566/gallery-4eaed86d624f.jpg) Image of photograph of George Radu Metaxa (known professionally as Georges Metaxa, singer and actor, born at Bucharest, Romania, September 17, 1894 (1932) — United States Department of Labor, Naturalization Service, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/Metaxa-George_1932-Dec-Naturalization-Appl-NYC_Photo.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Georges Metaxa](https://film.one/media/person/3856566/gallery-f1183889d935.jpg) Georges Metaxa — Image via TMDB

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