Kurt Kreuger Filmography

Kurt Kreuger was a Swiss-reared German actor. Kreuger once was the third most requested male actor at 20th Century Fox. He starred with, among others, Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart. Kreuger was born in Michendorf, Germany but grew up in St. Moritz, Switzerland. He attended the London School of Economics and enrolled in Columbia University to study medicine. Soon, Kreuger dropped out of Columbia to pursue a career in acting. Kreuger's father, a successful businessman, cut off his son's allowance after he embarked seriously on an acting career. In 1943 during the filming of Sahara, he... was almost killed in a dramatic scene because the director almost forgot to say "cut". He was quoted by the San Francisco Chronicle I was running across the dunes when Tambul jumped on top of me and pressed my head into the sand to suffocate me. Only Zoltán forgot to yell cut, and Ingram was so emotionally caught up in the scene that he kept pressing my face harder and harder. Finally, I went unconscious. Nobody knew this. Even the crew was transfixed, watching this dramatic ‘killing.
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