Background
Siegfried Arno was born Siegfried Aron in Hamburg, Germany.
Siegfried Arno was born Siegfried Aron in Hamburg, Germany.
He may be best remembered from The Palm Beach Story (1942) as "Toto", the nonsense-talking mustachioed man who hopelessly pursues Mary Astor"s "Princess Centimillia". Before beginning to make films in 1920 he was well known in Germany as a stage comedian. He acted in ninety films in Germany – including G.W. Pabst"s Pandora"s Box with Louise Brooks – playing primarily comic roles, before leaving the country in 1933, due to the rise of Hitler.
He worked in Europe until 1939, when he moved to Hollywood.
During the next twenty years he appeared in over fifty films, often playing waiters, maitre d"s and "funny Europeans". He died from Parkinson"s disease in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California on August 17, 1975, aged 79.