Paul Muni (1895 - 1967)

Austrian born American actor. Nominated for 6 Academy Awards, winner of one Oscar as Best Actor for his role in The Story of Louis Pasteur.

* September 22, 1895 Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Lviv, Ukraine]
 as Meshilem Meier Weisenfreund
 August 25, 1967 Montecito, California, USA



Vintage magazines

Photoplay, October 1929
Photoplay, January 1930
Photoplay, January 1930

Photoplay, January 1930
Photoplay, February 1930
Photoplay, December 1930

Photoplay, June 1932
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Photoplay, July 1932

Photoplay, February 1933
Photoplay, February 1933
Photoplay, February 1933

Photoplay, February 1933
Photoplay, February 1936
Photoplay, March 1936

Photoplay, June 1936
Photoplay, June 1936
Photoplay, June 1936

Mein Film, nr. 618, 29 X 1937

Books on Paul Muni

James Robert Parish
The Tough Guys
New Rochelle, New York, 1976

Jerome Lawrence
Actor, the life and times of Paul Muni
New York, [1974]

Michael B. Druxman
Paul Muni, His life and his films
South Brunswick, [1974]

Books with substantial mentioning of Paul Muni

Rudolf Ulrich Österreicher in Hollywood Rudolf Ulrich
Österreicher in Hollywood
Wien, 2004

Mick LaSalle Dangerous Men Mick LaSalle
Dangerous Men, Pre-Code Hollywood and the Birth of the Modern Man
2002

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 3. Actors and Actresses
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Danny Peary Alternate Oscars Danny Peary
Alternate Oscars, One Critic's Defiant Choices for Best Picture, Actor, and Actress - From 1927 to the Present
New York, 1993

Robert A. Nowlan and Gwendolyn Wright Nowlan
Movie Characters of Leading Performers of the Sound Era
Chicago and London, 1990

Books with an entry on Paul Muni

David Thomson The New Biographical Dictionary of Film David Thomson
The New Biographical Dictionary of Film
New York, 2003

Paul Michael, editor in chief. James Robert Parish, associate editor The American movies reference book Paul Michael, editor in chief. James Robert Parish, associate editor
The American movies reference book, The sound era
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,, 1969