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Oskar Werner (November 13, 1922 - October 23,
1984) was an Austrian actor.

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 Germany|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 Award for
Academy Award for Best Actor|Best Actor in 1965
for Ship of Fools (film)|Ship of Fools.  Other
starring roles were in The Spy Who Came in from
the Cold, Fahrenheit 451, and The Shoes of the
Fisherman. Werner also played the murderer
opposite Peter Falk in an episode of the Columbo
TV series entitled "Playback" (1975).

His alcoholism resulted in the decline of his
acting career and his early death, from a heart
attack, in 1984.

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