Leonard Steckel

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Leonard Steckel (18 January 1901 – 9 February 1971) was a German actor and director of stage and screen.

Steckel was born as Leonhard Steckel in Knihinin, near present-day Ivano-Frankivsk, Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine). He began his career as a stage actor and spent the duration of World War II in exile in Zürich, Switzerland, where he had gone to work at the Schauspielhaus Zürich. It was during this time that he began to direct. Steckel was killed in a major rail accident on 9 February 1971 in Aitrang, Germany.

Selected filmography

Phantoms of Happiness (1929)
The House of Dora Green (1933)
Ballerina (1956)
The Doctor of Stalingrad (1958)
The Phone Rings Every Night (1962)
The Visit (1964)

References

Biography with photo (German)
Leonard Steckel at the Internet Movie Database

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 64778211 LCCN: n00043272 GND: 117224685

Persondata
Name	Steckel, Leonard
Alternative names
Short description	German actor and film director
Date of birth	18 January 1901
Place of birth	Knihinin, Austria-Hungary
Date of death	9 February 1971
Place of death	Aitrang, Germany

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