Charles Korvin

Charles Korvin was a Hungarian-American actor who worked in film, television, and theater. Born in Pöstyén, Austro-Hungary, now Piešťany, Slovakia, he studied at the Sorbonne and spent a decade in France photographing for the postcard firm Yvon. He moved to the United States in 1940 and studied acting at the Barter Theater in Abingdon, Virginia. In 1943 he made his Broadway debut as a Russian nobleman in Dark Eyes under the name Géza Korvin, and after signing with Universal Pictures he became Charles Korvin. He appeared in 1940s films, three times opposite Merle Oberon, then did early television work on Studio One, Playhouse 90, and the US Steel Hour and played the Eagle on Disney's Zorro. He was the ship's captain in Stanley Kramer's Ship of Fools (1965), returned to the stage in The King and I and Barefoot in the Park, and voiced the Red Baron in Lufthansa advertisements for eight years.