Date of Birth
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07-April-1903
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Place of Birth
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Vienna
(Austria)
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Nationality
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Austria
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Also know as
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Forst, Willi, Willy Forst, Wilhelm Anton Frohs, W. Forst
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Profession
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Singer, Film director, Actor, Film Producer, Screenwriter
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Willi Forst, born Wilhelm Anton Frohs was an Austrian actor, screenwriter, film director, film producer and singer. As a debonair actor he was a darling of the German-speaking film audiences, as a director, one of the most significant makers of the Viennese period musical melodramas and comedies of the 1930s known as Wiener Filme. From the mid-1930s he also recorded many records, largely of sentimental Viennese songs, for the Odeon Records label owned by Carl Lindström AG.
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