Oscar Leopold Karlweis (10 July 1894 24 January 1956) was an
Austrian-American stage and film actor, active internationally.Born in
Hinterbrhl, Austria-Hungary, he was the son of playwright Carl
Karlweis and younger brother of writer of Marta Karlweis. Karlweis
abandoned his youthful law studies for the stage, first for eight
years at Vienna's Stadttheater. After service in World War I, he was
active with Max Reinhardt's Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna,
followed by engagements at various theaters in Munich and Vienna, and
then to the Berlin stage where he had a popular following playing
singing and dancing roles, including as Prinz Orlofsky in Die
Fledermaus. His general manner was humorous, charming, naive, and
cheerful.In Berlin between 1930 and 1933 he worked as a recording
artist and acted in more than a dozen German light comedy and musical
films, most famously as one of Lilian Harvey's suitors in the hugely
successful operetta film The Three from the Filling Station.
Austrian-American stage and film actor, active internationally.Born in
Hinterbrhl, Austria-Hungary, he was the son of playwright Carl
Karlweis and younger brother of writer of Marta Karlweis. Karlweis
abandoned his youthful law studies for the stage, first for eight
years at Vienna's Stadttheater. After service in World War I, he was
active with Max Reinhardt's Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna,
followed by engagements at various theaters in Munich and Vienna, and
then to the Berlin stage where he had a popular following playing
singing and dancing roles, including as Prinz Orlofsky in Die
Fledermaus. His general manner was humorous, charming, naive, and
cheerful.In Berlin between 1930 and 1933 he worked as a recording
artist and acted in more than a dozen German light comedy and musical
films, most famously as one of Lilian Harvey's suitors in the hugely
successful operetta film The Three from the Filling Station.
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