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Born Oskar Josef Bschliessmayer in Vienna, he was an Austrian stage actor, starring in the William Shakespeare repertoire, until his film debut in Der Engel mit der Posaune in 1948. In 1951 he starred in the English language movie Decision Before Dawn, in which he played a German prisoner of war who spies for his captors.

In 1961 he starred in François Truffaut's Jules et Jim , and became an international star as a result. He was nominated for an Academy AwardBob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. The Academy Awards (often better known as Oscars) are the most prominent film award in the United States. The Awards are granted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a p for Best ActorThe Academy Award for Best Actor is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. The winners are chosen b in 19651965 was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). Events January-February January 4 United States President Lyndon Johnson proclaims his " Great Society" during his State of the Union address. January 14 Prime Ministers of N for Ship of FoolsShip of Fools is a 1965 film which tells the overlapping stories of several passengers aboard an ocean liner during the 1930s. It stars Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret, Jose Ferrer, Lee Marvin, Oskar Werner, Michael Dunn, Elizabeth Ashley and George Segal.. Other starring roles were in The Spy Who Came in from the ColdThe Spy Who Came in from the Cold is an espionage novel by John Le Carre, which tells the story of Alec Lemas, a British spy, sent to East Germany to gather information, who fears that his superiors have allowed him to become lost in the process. It was m, Fahrenheit 451Fahrenheit 451 ( 1953) is a dystopian science fiction novel by Ray Bradbury. It reflects several problems the people of that time were confronted with. On the one hand the censorship exercised in the 1950s by the US congress when as the result of hysteric, and The Shoes of the FishermanThe Shoes of the Fisherman is a 1963 novel by Morris West, as well as a 1968 film based on the novel. Plot After twenty years in a Siberian labor camp, Kiril Pablovich Lakota, the Metropolitan Archbishop of Lvov, is set free. He is sent to Rome, where the. Werner also played the murderer opposite Peter FalkPeter Falk (born September 16, 1927) is an American actor. Best known for his role in the long-running TV series Columbo in which he played the title role a shabby, seemingly slow-witted police detective. Columbo inevitably solved his cases through close in an episode of the Columbo TV series entitled "Playback" ( 1975).

Sadly, both his decline as an actor and eventually his death of a heart attack in 1984 were caused by many years of excessive drinking.