Background
He was born Edward W. Wyman or Weimer in Vienna, Austria-Hungary.
He was born Edward W. Wyman or Weimer in Vienna, Austria-Hungary.
Beginning in 1913, he appeared in serials and films in the United States of America and became an action star in Germany in the late 1920s. After his acting career ended in the mid-1940s he worked as a makeup artist. Polo died in Hollywood, California from a heart attack.
He was the father of actress Malvina Polo (1903-2000), best remembered as the mentally handicapped girl preyed upon for rape in Erich von Stroheim"s Foolish Wives (1922).