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He was the son of opera singer Ernestine Schumann-Heink.
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Ferdinand Schumann-Heink
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Though most of his films were uncredited roles, he wrote the screenplay for the 1930 film Mamba. During the First World War Ferdinand enlisted in the United States. Army Field Artillery, serving at Camp Funston, Arizona until he was medically discharged with weakened lungs from pneumonia. Ferdinand"s brother George Washington Schumann-Heink died of illness whilst in the United States Army.
