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Torben Emil Meyer (1 December 1884 – 22 May 1975) was a Danish character actor who appeared in more than 190 films in a 55-year career. ==Early career== Meyer was born in Copenhagen, Denmark and began his career as a stage actor in Denmark. He appeared in his first silent movie, ''Vor tids dame'' in 1912 and made twenty more before making ''Don Quixote'' in 1926. This movie achieved considerable international stature, and Meyer followed the migration of leading European actors to Hollywood the following year. His first American role was as a spy in the silent movie ''The Man Who Laughs'' starring Conrad Veidt in 1928. Meyer arrived just when the transition to sound was in progress. In contrast to many other European-born actors, his thick accent became an asset for him. He appeared uncredited in numerous movies throughout the 1930s and 1940s, almost always cast as a German. In 1930, Meyer received a small part in a Michael Curtiz film ''A Soldier's Plaything'', and in 1932, Meyer appeared in two Swedish language American films, ''Trådlöst och kärleksfullt'' and ''Halvvägs till Himlen''. Later that year, he had a small part in ''Murders in the Rue Morgue'', based on the Edgar Allan Poe short story which starring Bela Lugosi. Meyer had small parts as waiters in five different movies during 1932; in German émigré director Ernst Lubitsch's film ''Broken Lullaby'' starring Lionel Barrymore, in George Cukor's ''What Price Hollywood?'', where he plays a waiter in the famous Hollywood restaurant 'The Brown Derby', in ''Downstairs'' starring Paul Lukas, in Mervyn LeRoy's ''Big City Blues'' starring Joan Blondell and in ''The Match King''. Also that year, he had a small part in ''The Animal Kingdom'' starring Leslie Howard. Next Meyer went from waiter to butler in a number of films in the 1930s; ''The Crime of the Century'', John Ford's ''The World Moves On'', ''Preview Murder Mystery'' starring Reginald Denny, ''Piccadilly Jim'' and ''The First Hundred Years'' both starring Robert Montgomery, and ''The King and the Chorus Girl'' starring Joan Blondell. However, he was again cast as a waiter in ''Reunion in Vienna'' starring Lionel Barrymore, in ''The Good Fairy'' starring Margaret Sullavan, in ''Break of Hearts'' starring Katharine Hepburn and Charles Boyer (in this one he was headwaiter at The Ritz), in ''Two for Tonight'' starring Bing Crosby, in ''The Gay Deception'' as a butler and in ''To Beat the Band''. In 1935, Meyer was strangled by Boris Karloff's Frankenstein in James Whale's ''Bride of Frankenstein''. Two years later, in 1937, Meyer had a number of bit parts; as a servant in ''Tovarich'' starring Claudette Colbert, Charles Boyer and Basil Rathbone, as Raymond Massey's servant in ''The Prisoner of Zenda'' starring Ronald Colman in the title role and as Tyrone Power's chauffeur in Sonja Henie's ''Thin Ice''. In 1938 Meyer played a German Police Prefect in a Simon Templar movie, ''The Saint in New York'', and the following year, he played a doorman in ''Topper Takes a Trip'' starring Roland Young and Billie Burke. In 1939, Meyer had a bit part in Warner Bros. anti-Nazi movie ''Nurse Edith Cavell'' starring Anna Neagle. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Torben Meyer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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