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name: "John Mylong"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/john-mylong"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "27 September 1892"
died: "8 September 1975"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T14:16:53.472737+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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# John Mylong

Actor. Born 27 September 1892 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria). Died 8 September 1975.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 27 September 1892, Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria)
- **Died:** 8 September 1975
- **Also known as:** Adolf Heinrich Münz

## Biography

John Mylong, also credited as Adolf Heinrich Münz or Jack Mylong-Münz, was an Austrian actor who later worked in Hollywood. Born on 27 September 1892, he trained at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna and began his career on stage and in silent films in Austria and Germany from the early 1920s, appearing in numerous productions and writing several screenplays.

Following the rise of the Nazis, he emigrated to the United States in the 1930s. Under the name John Mylong he became a character actor in over 170 film and television roles, often playing supporting parts in features such as *For Whom the Bell Tolls* (1943), *Unconquered* (1947), *His Kind of Woman* (1951), *Robot Monster* (1953) as the Professor, *Magnificent Obsession* (1954) and episodes of *I Love Lucy* and *Alfred Hitchcock Presents*. He became a US citizen in 1948 and retired in the early 1960s.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Robot Monster* (1953), Fi1m 48, as The Professor — [page](https://film.one/film/robot-monster.md)

## Also known for

- *Alfred Hitchcock Presents* (1955), Doctor
- *I Love Lucy* (1951), Policeman, Manager
- *TerrorVision* (1986), Archive Footage (Robot Monster)
- *For Whom the Bell Tolls* (1943), Colonel Duval
- *Magnificent Obsession* (1954), Dr. Hofer
- *Annie Get Your Gun* (1950), Kaiser Wilhelm II (uncredited)
- *His Kind of Woman* (1951), Martin Krafft
- *Unconquered* (1947), Colonel Henry Bouquet

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