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Akim Tamiroff
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His friend
Orson Welles
frequently called him the greatest of all screen actors.
He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1634 Vine Street in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.
Had appeared in five Oscar Best Picture nominees:
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)
,
Naughty Marietta (1935)
,
The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)
,
Anthony Adverse (1936)
and
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
.
Spoke English, French, Italian and Russian.
Same birth town as the legendary
Sergei Parajanov
.
Considered the first Armenian-American film star.
The film Monsieur Lecoq (1967) was unfinished and abandoned.
Brother-in-law of
Konstantin Shayne
.
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