Still of Barbara Bel Geddes and Oskar Homolka in I Remember Mama (1948)
Caption: Still of Barbara Bel Geddes and Oskar Homolka in I Remember Mama (1948)
Actor
Born: August 12, 1898
Star sign: Leo
Known for: Sabotage (1936), The Seven Year Itch (1955), Ball of Fire (1941), I Remember Mama (1948)
Source: IMDB
Because of his heavy generically "European" accent and Slavic-sounding surname (not an uncommon one among Czechs or Slovaks), many people assumed Oscar Homolka was Eastern European or Russian. In fact, he was born in Vienna (then Austria-Hungary), the multicultural capital of a large multi-ethnic empire at the time. It was there he began his ...