Martin Kosleck Overview:

Character actor, Martin Kosleck, was born Nicolaie Yoshkin on Mar 24, 1904 in Barkotzen, Germany. Kosleck died at the age of 89 on Jan 15, 1994 in Santa Monica, CA .

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German actor who fled to America in 1933, but hardly got a nibble at Hollywood films until World War II loomed. Suddenly Kosleck, with his sleek, dark evil looks, and narrow face and eyes, found himself in demand to portray Nazis and sinister villains generally - quite an irony for a Jewish player. Portrayed Goebbels ("like he was, without a single redeeming feature") several times. Demands for his services slackened after 1946.

(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Film Character Actors: an Illustrated Directory).

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Martin Kosleck Quotes:

Marcel De Lange: [Seeing the Creeper for the first time] Magnifique! The perfect Neanderthal Man!


Marcel De Lange: I see here in the evening paper that a woman was murdered in the neighborhood last night.
The Creeper: [Flatly] Yeah.
Marcel De Lange: Yes, her spine was snapped. I've often wondered why a man would want to snap a woman's spine.
The Creeper: [Flatly] She screamed.
Marcel De Lange: An annoying habit on the part of women... screaming.


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Martin Kosleck Facts
Acted twice on stage with his wife Eleonora von Mendelssohn, once in Berlin when he was performing in "The Tribune" and again on Broadway in "The Madwoman of Chaillot".

Later became an exhibited painter in Los Angeles and New York. Marlene Dietrich and Bette Davis both owned some of his portraits.

Although German-born Kosleck specialized in playing Nazis (he was once admiringly described by a film critic as "the definitive Nazi swine"), in reality his vehement opposition to Hitler and Naziism landed him on a Gestapo list of "undesirables" and he fled Germany one step ahead of a Gestapo death squad.

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