He attended the London School of Economics and enrolled in Columbia University (New York City) to study medicine, but he soon dropped out to pursue a career in acting.

[citation needed] In 1943, during the filming of Sahara, Kreuger 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.

[2] Kreuger's first major film credit was in Mademoiselle Fifi, a 1944 release that is set in the Franco-Prussian War.

Kreuger was primarily offered roles in World War II films as a German officer, prompting him to complain about being typecast as a Nazi.

[4] He died on 12 July 2006, eleven days before his 90th birthday, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles following a stroke.