Heinrich George
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Heinrich George (October 9, 1893 in Stettin - September 25, 1946 in Oranienburg) was a German actor.
He acted in films such as Berlin Alexanderplatz and others and had one of first roles in the Fritz Lang directed film Metropolis. Although active in the Communist Party of Germany before the Nazi takeover, he acted in a number of propaganda films before and during WWII, including Hitlerjunge Quex, Jud Süß, and Kolberg. He died in 1946 in a Russian concentration camp, just north of Berlin, after an appendix operation.
He was also the father of actor Götz George.
