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Louis Wolheim (March 28, 1880 - February 18, 1931) was a Jewish American character actor.

His trademark broken nose was the result of an injury sustained while playing football for Cornell University. Despite his grotesque visage, Wolheim was intelligent and cultivated, speaking French, German, Spanish, and Yiddish.

Wolheim acted primarily in silent films, but his most famous performance was in a talkie, All Quiet on the Western Front
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Late in his career, on the advice of his mentor Lionel Barrymore, Wolheim went into the theater. He achieved considerable success in The Hairy Ape by Eugene O'Neill.

Wolheim died in 1931 in Los Angeles, of stomach cancer.

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