Biography
Hans Heinrich von Twardowski was a German actor born on 5 May 1898 in Stettin, Pomerania, Germany (now Szczecin, Poland). He died on 19 November 1958 in New York City.
He made his screen debut as Alan in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920). Other early German credits include Genuine: The Tragedy of a Vampire (1920) as Florian and Phantom (1922). In Hollywood he appeared in supporting roles, often uncredited, as German officers or Nazis in films including Casablanca (1943), Hangmen Also Die! (1943) as Reinhard Heydrich, The Scarlet Empress (1934) and Passage to Marseille (1944). He also worked in theatre in the United States and published a collection of poetic parodies, Der rasende Pegasus, in 1918.
