Sig Ruman
Birthday: 1884-10-10
Place of Birth: Hamburg, Germany
Biography: Sig Ruman was a German-American actor known for his portrayals of pompous and often stereotypical Teutonic officials or villains. Ruman made his film debut in Lucky Boy (1929). He became a favorite of the Marx Brothers, appearing in A Night at the Opera, A Day at the Races, and A Night in Casablanca. His German accent and large stature kept him busy during World War II, playing sinister Nazi characters in a series of wartime thrillers. During this period, he also appeared in several films by director Ernst Lubitsch including Ninotchka and To Be or Not to Be. Ruman continued playing over-the-top German characters later in his career for Billy Wilder in The Emperor Waltz, Stalag 17, and The Fortune Cookie.
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The Last of the Secret Agents?
Marty and Steve, American tourists in France, are given a multipurpose umbrella and pitted against a...
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To Be or Not to Be
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's effor...
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Stalag 17
It's a dreary Christmas 1944 for the American POWs in Stalag 17 and the men in Barracks 4, all serge...
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House of Frankenstein
Deranged scientist, Gustav Niemann, escapes from prison and overtakes the director of a traveling ch...
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Ninotchka
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who repres...
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It Happened Tomorrow
A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings...
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The Great Waltz
Composer Johann Strauss risks his marriage over his infatuation with a beautiful singer....
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Love Crazy
Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorc...
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The Princess Comes Across
A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America and finds...
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A Day at the Races
Doctor Hugo Hackenbush, Tony, and Stuffy try and save Judy's sanitarium by winning a big race with a...
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Comrade X
An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Com...
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A Night in Casablanca
The Marx Brothers are employed at a hotel in postwar Casablanca, where a ring of Nazis is trying to ...
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Border Incident
The story concerns two agents, one Mexican (PJF) and one American, who are tasked to stop the smuggl...
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Outside the Three-Mile Limit
Government Agent Conway, posing as a crew member of a ship, is investigating the flood of counterfei...
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Crossroads
A French diplomat who's recovered from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can't remember....
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Houdini
By the early 1900s, the extraordinary Houdini earned an international reputation for his theatrical ...
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Nothing Sacred
When a small-town girl is incorrectly diagnosed with a rare, deadly disease, an unknowing newspaper ...
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That Uncertain Feeling
A happily married woman sees a psychoanalyst and develops doubts about her husband....
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Only Angels Have Wings
A traveling performer arrives at a remote South American port town where the head of an air freight ...
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36 Hours
Germans kidnap an American major and try to convince him that World War II is over, so that they can...
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A Night at the Opera
The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly busin...
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Thin Ice
A Swiss hotel ski instructor falls in love with a man who goes skiing every morning....
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3 Ring Circus
Jerry and Pete are two friends with no money and are looking for a job. They finally find employment...
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The Wings of Eagles
The story of Frank W. "Spig" Wead - a Navy-flyer turned screenwriter....
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The Glenn Miller Story
A vibrant tribute to one of America's legendary bandleaders, charting Glenn Miller's rise from obscu...
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The Saint in New York
A crime spree in New York forces the police commissioner to turn to Englishman Simon Templar, who fi...
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Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen
Detective Ellery Queen aids Free Dutch agents battle Nazi spies over a prize of industrial diamonds....
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Summer Storm
It's a tale of power and passions when a Russian siren, who wants the finer things in life, sinks he...
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Many Rivers to Cross
Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker star as a Kentucky backwoodsman and the woman who will NOT let anyt...
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China Girl
Two-fisted newsreel photographer Johnny Williams is stationed in Burma and China in the early stage ...
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Government Girl
An aviation engineer and a government secretary are thrown together by the war effort....
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Tarzan Triumphs
Zandra, white princess of a lost civilization, comes to Tarzan for help when Nazis invade the jungle...
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The World in His Arms
A boisterous sea captain in the Pacific Coast, circa 1850, has a plan to buy Alaska from the Russian...
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The Wagons Roll at Night
An escaped circus lion provides the impetus for the meeting of carnival owner Nick Coster and Matt V...
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Think Fast, Mr. Moto
When his import/export business infiltrated by international diamond smugglers, Mr. Moto must follow...
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Thank You, Mr. Moto
Mr. Moto Heads to China on a quest for seven ancient scrolls that reveal the location of Genghis Kha...
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Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syph...
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Mother Wore Tights
In this chronicle of a vaudeville family, Myrtle McKinley (class of 1900) goes to San Francisco to a...
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Hollywood: The Dream Factory
A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to t...
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Lancer Spy
An Englishman impersonates an imprisoned German officer and "returns" to Germany to become a nationa...
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Four Sons
Four Sons is a 1940 film directed by Archie Mayo. It stars Don Ameche and Eugenie Leontovich. It is ...
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Never Say Die
Bob Hope is being stalked by a predatory widow who is a widow of wealthy husbands many times over. M...
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Carolina Cannonball
Judy and her grandpa run a trolley between a train depot and a ghost town in Nevada, near the Califo...
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The Farmer Takes a Wife
A farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm....
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The Bold Caballero
The Commandant is making life rough for the colonials in Spanish California. While trying to help, Z...
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Remember?
Sky and Linda meet on vacation and become engaged. When Sky introduces Linda to his best friend, Jef...
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Desperate Journey
During WWII, when an allied bomber is shot down over Germany, the five surviving crew are captured b...
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Give My Regards to Broadway
A family vaudeville act is threatened when the eldest son is offered a contract to play baseball. Mu...
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Paradise for Three
A businessman mingles with German laborers to learn more about their lives....
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Shining Victory
In a Scottish sanitarium, a brilliant research psychiatrist works on a treatment for dementia praeco...
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Honolulu
Wanting a break from his overzealous fans, a famous movie star hires a Hawaiian plantation owner to ...
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Bitter Sweet
A woman runs away with her music teacher in order to escape an arranged marriage, but they struggle ...
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She Went to the Races
A group of scientists develop a system to pick winners at the racetrack. Comedy....
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Suez
Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and...
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They Came to Blow Up America
Based on a true incident that occurred in 1942 when nine Nazi saboteurs were put ashore on the coast...
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The Girl on The Roof
A comedy of manners, the film centers on virtuous actress Patty O'Neill, who meets playboy architect...
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The Emperor Waltz
At the turn of the 20th century, travelling salesman Virgil Smith journeys to Vienna in the hope he ...
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The Wedding Night
While working on a novel in his country home in Connecticut, married writer Tony Barrett develops ro...
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I'll Give a Million
After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that...
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I Was an Adventuress
Posing as the fabulously glamorous Countess Tanya Vronsky, a poor young ballet dancer and her two ac...
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Under Pressure
Two members of a crew of "sandhogs", men who work on an underwater tunnel project, battle each other...
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Midnight Taxi
A federal agent goes to work for a taxi company believing it to be a front for a gang of counterfeit...
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The Hitler Gang
The Hitler Gang adopts the style of a gangster film as it charts Adolf Hitler’s rise from small-time...
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Faithful in My Fashion
A U.S. Army sergeant is home on leave to reconnect with his girlfriend he hopes to marry. However, i...
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The Great Hospital Mystery
A nurse's brother who's pursued by the mob, hides out in a hospital by pretending to be a patient....
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On the Avenue
A new Broadway show starring Gary Blake shamelessly lampoons the rich Carraway family. To get her ow...
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The Song of Bernadette
In 1858 Lourdes, France, adolescent peasant Bernadette has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the Mas...
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Berlin Correspondent
Bill Roberts is an American radio commentator station in Berlin in the months before Pearl Harbor. ...
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Confessions of a Nazi Spy
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund....
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O. Henry's Full House
Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critics' acclaim was "The Cop and the...
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Remember Pearl Harbor
A man tries to redeem himself after ducking out on his comrades before the fatal attack....
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Victory
A hermit's idyllic life on an island is disturbed by the arrival of a bunch of cutthroats....
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One, Two, Three
C.R. MacNamara is a managing director for Coca-Cola in West Berlin during the Cold War, just before ...
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The World Moves On
Two families, cotton merchants in England and America, with branches in France and Prussia swear to ...
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Father Is a Bachelor
Johnny Rutledge is a drifter who comes to and discovers a cabin in the forest where five kids: Janua...
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Love Under Fire
A suspense-thriller-comedy set against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War....
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This Is My Affair
President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well ...
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Living It Up
Homer Flagg (Lewis) is a railroad worker in the small town of Desert Hole, New Mexico. One day he fi...
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Breakdowns of 1941
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1941....
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If You Knew Susie
In the small town of Brookford, everybody can trace their ancestors back to the Revolutionary War, e...
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Marie Galante
On the French coast, unlucky Marie Galante is abducted and forced to board an American cargo ship bo...
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The Dolly Sisters
Two sisters from Hungary become famous entertainers in the early 1900s. Fictionalized biography with...
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Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation
The Kettles are in Paris along with their daughter-in-law's parents the Parkers. Pa tries to buy rac...
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This Woman Is Mine
Three seafaring fur traders fall in love with a female stowaway they discover aboard their ship. Ma...
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Way... Way Out
A platonically wed American couple run a lunar weather station near an unwed Soviet couple....
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Sweet Rosie O'Grady
An American singer becomes engaged to an English duke, but is continuously pestered over her past as...
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So Ends Our Night
An anti-Nazi refugee on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler...
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The Man Who Lost Himself
John Evans encounters his lookalike, Malcolm Scott. When Scott is killed in an accident, Evans finds...
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Heidi
Heidi is orphaned and her uncaring maternal Aunt Dete takes her to the mountains to live with her re...
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Maytime
An aging opera singer looks back on her long life, including her relationships with her vocal teache...
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The Fortune Cookie
A cameraman is knocked over during a football game. His brother-in-law, as the king of the ambulance...
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On the Riviera
In this fast-paced remake of the Maurice Chevalier vehicle Folies Bergère, talented Danny Kaye plays...
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Seventh Heaven
A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from the ...
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Men in Her Diary
Singer/Dancer Peggy Ryan neither sings nor dances in this comedy in which she plays a secretary, who...
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The Errand Boy
Paramutual Pictures wants to know where all the money is going so they hire Morty to be their spy. M...
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White Christmas
Two talented song-and-dance men team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show busi...
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A Royal Scandal
Catherine the Great falls in love with an army officer who is plotting against her....
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East of Java
Survivors of a shipwreck find refuge on a tropical island--but so do the ship's cargo of lions and t...
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Doom of Dracula
An EIGHT minute excerpt from the 1944 feature, House of Frankenstein, released in the 1960's to the ...
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Night and Day
When his first stage show fails, songwriter Cole Porter goes off to fight in WWI until, injured, he ...
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Robin and the 7 Hoods
Set in Prohibition era Chicago, bootlegger Robbo and his cronies refuse to pay the greedy Guy Gisbor...
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World Premiere
A movie-making publicity man screwball comedy about a movie producer who wants to create publicity f...
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Spring Tonic
Betty Ingals walks out on her fiancé in search of adventure. She gets more than she bargained for wh...
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Servants' Entrance
Heiress Hedda Nillson certain that her family is about to lose all its money, takes a job as a maid....
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Lucky Boy
A young Jewish man works in his father's jewelry business, but he doesn't like it at all--he wants t...
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Around the World with Nellie Bly
Made-for-TV musical inspired by the real-life travels of a celebrated 1800s female newspaper columni...
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