Education
He attended the Handelsakademie (commercial academy) in Vienna and took classes with acting teacher Karl Arnau in the same city.
He attended the Handelsakademie (commercial academy) in Vienna and took classes with acting teacher Karl Arnau in the same city.
After working as a bank clerk for a short period he decided to focus on his acting career in 1893. After working at various theatres in Austria and Germany for about twenty years he was discovered in Berlin as leading man by movie star Asta Nielsen with whom he played in several movies directed by Urban Gad.