Paul Dahlke (actor)

Paul Victor Ernst Dahlke (12 April 1904 – 23 November 1984) was a German stage and film actor.

[1] Dahlke was born in Gross Streitz (today Strzezenice, Poland) near Köslin in Farther Pomerania.

In 1927, Dahlke was a scholar of Max Reinhardt's drama school and appeared at different stages in Berlin and Munich in 1929.

Throughout the 1930s he worked with popular actors like Emil Jannings, Zarah Leander, Lil Dagover or Lída Baarová.

After World War II Dahlke worked at the Staatsschauspiel Munich and embodied characters like Carl Zuckmayer's Des Teufels General or Professor Higgins in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion.