title: Henry Victor
text: Henry Victor (2 October 1892 – 15 March 1945) was an English-born character actor who had his highest profile in the film silent era, he appeared in numerous film roles in his native Britain, before emigrating to the United States in 1939 where he continued his career, working in Hollywood films
  
  Biography
  
  Victor was born in London, England, but was raised in Germany, he made his film debut as Prince Andreas in The King's Romance (1914). He appeared in literary interpreted pieces such as The Picture of Dorian Gray (1916) and the Graham Cutts-directed The White Shadow (1923). Victor is probably best remembered for his portrayal of the circus strongman Hercules in Tod Browning's film Freaks (1932). The role was originally considered for Victor McLaglen, with whom Browning had worked previously. Victor emigrated to America in 1939.
  
  Never a leading man in sound films mainly due to his difficult to interpret accent, he established later in his career, and with the advent of talkies, many character roles, in which he mostly portrayed villains or Nazis in both American and British films with his trademark German accent such as the Ernst Lubitsch film, To Be or Not to Be (1942).
  
  Death
  Victor died in 1945, aged 52, from a brain tumor. He is buried in Chatsworth, California, at the Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery.
  
  Filmography
  
   The King's Romance (1914) - Prince Andreas
   She (1916) - Leo Vincey
   The Picture of Dorian Gray (1916) - Dorian Gray
   Ora Pro Nobis (1917) - Lord Osborne
   The Secret Woman (1918) - Jesse Redvers
   The Heart of a Rose (1919) - Dick Darrell
   The Call of the Sea (1919)
   A Lass o' the Looms (1919) - Jack Brown
   ¡Cuidado con los ladrones! (1919)
   Calvary (1920) - David Penryn
   As God Made Her (1920) - Seward Pendyne
   John Heriot's Wife (1920) - John Heriot
   Beyond the Dreams of Avarice (1920) - Dr. Lucien Calvert
   Sheer Bluff (1921) - Maurice Hardacre
   The Old Wives' Tale (1921) - Gerald
   Bentley's Conscience (1922) - Fletcer
   A Romance of Old Baghdad (1922) - Horne Jerningham
   Diana of the Crossways (1922) - Hon. Percy Dacier
   A Bill of Divorcement (1922) - Grey Meredith
   The Crimson Circle (1922)
   The Prodigal Son (1923) - Oscar Stephenson
   The Scandal (1923) - Artenezzo
   The Royal Oak (1923) - Charles I / Charles II
   The Colleen Bawn (1924) - Hardress Cregan
   Henry, King of Navarre (1924) - Duc de Guise
   Slaves of Destiny (1924) - Ralph Warriner
   The White Shadow (1924) - Louis Chadwick
   His Grace Gives Notice (1924) - George Berwick
   The Love Story of Aliette Brunton (1924) - Ronald Cavendish
   The Sins Ye Do (1924) - Ronald Hillier
   A Romance of Mayfair (1925) - Jack Dinneford
   The White Monkey (1925) - Wilfrid Desert
   Braveheart (1925) - Sam Harris
   Mulhall's Greatest Catch (1926) - Otto Nelson
   Crossed Signals (1926) - Jack McDermott
   The Beloved Rogue (1927) - Thibault d'Aussigny
   The Fourth Commandment (1927) - Gordon Graham
   Topsy and Eva (1927) - St. Claire
   The Luck of the Navy (1927) - Lt. Clive Stanton
   The Guns of Loos (1928) - John Grimlaw
   Tommy Atkins (1928) - Victor
   L'Argent (1928) - Jacques Hamelin
   After the Verdict (1929) - Mr. Sabine - der fremde Mann
   Down Channel (1929) - Smiler
   Diane (1929) - Oberst Guy de Lasalle
   The Hate Ship (1929) - Count Boris Ivanoff
   Song of Soho (1930) - Henry
   Are You There? (1930) - International crook
   One Heavenly Night (1931) - Almady, the Officer
   Seas Beneath (1931) - Baron Ernst von Steuben (U-boat commander)
   Suicide Fleet (1931) - Captain Von Schlettow
   Freaks (1932) - Hercules
   World and the Flesh (1932) - Revolutionary (uncredited)
   The Mummy (1932) - The Saxon Warrior (scenes deleted)
   Luxury Liner (1933) - Baron von Luden
   The Scotland Yard Mystery (1934) - Floyd
   Tiger Bay (1934) - Olaf
   I Spy (1934) - KPO
   The Way of Youth (1934) - M. Sylvestre
   Murder at Monte Carlo (1935) - Major
   Handle with Care (1935) - Count Paul
   Can You Hear Me, Mother? (1935) - Father
   The Secret Voice (1936) - Brandt
   Fame (1936) - Actor
   Conquest of the Air (1936) - Otto Lilienthal
   The Great Barrier (1937) - Bulldog Kelly
   Our Fighting Navy (1937) - Lt. d'Enriquo
   Holiday's End (1937) - Major Zwanenberg
   Fine Feathers (1937) - Gibbons
   Hotel Imperial (1939) - Sultanov (uncredited)
   Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) - Wildebrandt
   Nurse Edith Cavell (1939) - Jaubec (uncredited)
   Thunder Afloat (1939) - German U-boat Officer
   Espionage Agent (1939) - Foreign Official (uncredited)
   We're in the Army Now (1939) - Col. Schlager
   Nick Carter, Master Detective (1939) - J. Lester Hammil
   Zanzibar (1940) - Mate Simpson
   Enemy Agent (1940) - Karl (uncredited)
   The Mortal Storm (1940) - Gestapo Official Confiscating Book on Train (uncredited)
   Mystery Sea Raider (1940) - Cmdr. Bulow
   Spring Parade (1940) - Dutch Officer (uncredited)
   Seven Sinners (1940) - Dutch Police Officer (uncredited)
   Escape (1940) - Gestapo Officer with Hooked Nose (uncredited)
   Charter Pilot (1940) - Faber
   The Mad Doctor (1941) - Furber (uncredited)
   King of the Zombies (1941) - Dr. Miklos Sangre
   Underground (1941) - Gestapo Agent (uncredited)
   Dangerously They Live (1941) - U-boat Captain Horst (uncredited)
   Blue, White and Perfect (1942) - Rudolf Hagerman
   All Through the Night (1942) - Meeting Receptionist (uncredited)
   To Be or Not to Be (1942) - Captain Schultz
   The Wife Takes a Flyer (1942) - Col. Bosch (uncredited)
   Desperate Journey (1942) - Heinrich Schwarzmueller
   Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942) - German Storm Trooper (uncredited)
   Underground Agent (1942) - Johann Schrode
   Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1942) - Professor Frederic Hoffner (uncredited)
   They Got Me Covered (1943) - Staeger (uncredited)
   Don Winslow of the Coast Guard (1943) - Heilrich
   Mission to Moscow (1943) - Herr Schufeldt - Hamburg Official (uncredited)
   Nazty Nuisance (1943) - Kapitan von Popoff
   Above Suspicion (1943) - German Officer (uncredited)
   The Cross of Lorraine (1943) - Minor Role (uncredited)
   Betrayal from the East (1945) - Brunzman (uncredited)
   A Royal Scandal (1945) - Russian General (uncredited) (final film role)
  
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  1892 births
  1945 deaths
  English people of German descent
  English male film actors
  English male silent film actors
  Burials at Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery
  Deaths from cancer in California
  Deaths from brain cancer in the United States
  Male actors from London
  20th-century English male actors
  British expatriate male actors in the United States