Louis Adlon

Louis Adlon, who used the nickname Duke Adlon, was a German-born actor. He was born in Berlin in 1907. From the late 1930s he worked in Hollywood, where he was cast in supporting parts and bit roles in films, though his screen appearances were quite small. In May 1945 he began working as a war correspondent for International News Service. The assignment took him to Berlin, where he saw the ruined city and the burnt-out Hotel Adlon. His first article dealt with the destruction and the vanished world of his youth. He died in 1947. His Hollywood screen roles were minor, but he later gained notice as the central figure of the semi-documentary In The Glamorous World of the Adlon Hotel, released in 1997.