Marcel hilaire biography

Marcel Hillaire was a German-born character actor who had a lengthy career, appearing on stage, in films and on television.
Marcel Hillaire was a German-born character actor who had a lengthy career, appearing on stage, in films and on television.
Marcel was another scene-stealing character actor who came to the fore during the early years of television.

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Marcel Hillaire

German actor (1908–1988)

Marcel Hillaire (born Erwin Ottmar Hiller; April 23, 1908 – January 1, 1988) was a German-born character actor who had a lengthy career, appearing on stage, in films and on television. Hillaire was recognizable by his gaunt appearance and his accent, which seemed to be a combination of French and German.

Of Jewish descent, Hillaire first evaded the Holocaust in Nazi Germany by adopting a stage name and moving around constantly in traveling theater troupes; later he brazenly entered the bureaucracy of the Todt under his birth name, narrowly avoiding execution after capture. After World War II, Hillaire emigrated to America, again changed his name, and adopted a French persona, even touring the United States in a one-man stage show dedicated to celebrating French culture. In the early days of American television Hillaire guest starred in over a hundred episodes of various series, usually playing a Frenchman. In American films, Hillaire played the French chef training Audrey Hepburn's eponymous Sabrina and was featured as Fritz the

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Deceased (male)

Source citation

French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE) in Montrouge (France), Civil registration deaths
Fichier des personnes décédées, Montrouge, record number 1715

This data was last updated on July 4, 2023 by the source holder and first published on Open Archives on August 22, 2020. Online code ins53. Provenance information: https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/fichier-des-personnes-decedees/ bce7b17c-66a0-4547-97d1-8cc8e90bff81 csv2a2a.

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Marcel was another scene-stealing character actor who came to the fore during the early years of television. He built a 40-year long career in Hollywood playing the archetypal French gendarme, maître d' or small time crook. In fact, the balding, steely-eyed little actor was born in Cologne (Germany) as Erwin Ottmar Hiller, the son of music journalist and opera singer Paul Hiller. He appeared first on stage under the name Harry Furster in order to disguise his Jewish ancestry but was eventually put in jail by the Nazis, somehow escaped, then made his way to America. He began to act in television from 1952, subsequently appearing on the Broadway stage in "The Heavenly Twins", followed by "Silk Stockings" three years later. From then on, he quickly settled on his French impersonations which would become his stock-in-trade.

Marcel excelled in comical portrayals of stereotypical characters. He was memorably larger-than-life in his first motion picture, the romantic comedy Sabrina (1954) as 'the professor' who vainly attempts to teach budding cordon bl