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Daniel Emilfork Berenstein (April 7, 1924 – October 17, 2006) was a Chilean stage and film actor.
Emilfork was born in Providencia, Chile after his Jewish socialist parents from Kiev fled a pogrom in Odessa. At age 25, he left Chile and settled in France, because, according to his friend Alejandro Jodorowsky, he didn't feel comfortable being a homosexual man in Chile. Emilfork's face was out of the norm and had made him a choice character actor for films such as The City of Lost Children (1995). He specialized in roles of villains. Previously he had played in The Devil's Nightmare (1971), Travels with My Aunt (1972) and Fellini's Casanova (1976), in Roman Polanski's Pirates (1986) and in Ta…
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Daniel Emilfork Berenstein (April 7, 1924 – October 17, 2006) was a Chilean stage and film actor. Emilfork was born in Providencia, Chile after his Jewish socialist parents from Kiev fled a pogrom in Odessa. At age 25, he left Chile and settled in France, because, according to his friend Alejandro Jodorowsky, he didn't feel comfortable being a homosexual man in Chile. Emilfork's face was out of the norm and had made him a choice character actor for films such as The City of Lost Children (1995). He specialized in roles of villains. Previously he had played in The Devil's Nightmare (1971), Travels with My Aunt (1972) and Fellini's Casanova (1976), in Roman Polanski's Pirates (1986) and in Taxandria (1994). He carried on acting up until his death, his last film appearing in 2007. Emilfork's voice and accent when speaking French was extremely striking and unique. He died in Paris, France. Description above from the Wikipedia article Daniel Emilfork licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Patrice Chéreau, the body at work
as Self (archive footage)
Taxandria
as First Minister
The City of Lost Children
as Krank
The Flying Dutchman
as Ketterjager
Lou Didn’t Say No
as (voice)
The First Circle
as Nikol
Halloween Monster Bash
as Satan (archive footage)
The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober
as Rector
La Fée Carabine
as Stojil
No Poster
Riviera
as Messenger
The Passage
as La Mort
Pirates
as Secretaire
The Beautiful Prisoner
as Inspector Francis
The Apartment Murders
as Julius Zepernick
Quarter to Two Before Jesus Christ
as Tatouius
Subversion
as Cagliostro
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
as Saint-Juste
The Thief of Baghdad
as Genie
Fellini's Casanova
as Marquis Du Bois
Travels with My Aunt
as Colonel Hakim
Kill!
as Mejid
The Devil's Nightmare
as Satan
Noon and Midnight
as Marquis Robert Lorrain
No Poster
Reportage sur un squelette ou Masques et bergamasques
as Le diable
The Hand
as Le professeur
The Unknown Man of Shandigor
as Von Krantz
Lotosblüten für Miss Quon
as Inspector Gonsart
Trans-Europ-Express
as le policier
Lady L
as Kobeleff
Tell Me Whom to Kill
as Teotihuacan
The Liquidator
as Gregory
L'Or du duc
as Guardian
Le commissaire mène l’enquête
as The blind man (segment "Fermez votre porte")
What's New Pussycat?
as Gas Station Man
Mission to Venice
Jeff Gordon, Secret Agent
as Yanakos
L'assassin viendra ce soir
as Leader of the undertaker gang
Nutty, Naughty Chateau
as Gunther
OSS 117 Is Unleashed
as Sacha
Ballad for a Hoodlum
as Donacil
Seul... à corps perdu
as Manservant
Who Stole the Body?
as Igor, Professor Hippolyte's butler
The Doll
as 'Gant de Crin', the assassin
Midnight Meeting
as Le joueur de baccara
The Triumph of Michael Strogoff
as Ben Routh
Danger in the Middle East
Pantalaskas
as The baron
Riff Raff Girls
as Luigi le Napolitain
Goha
as L'aveugle Ibrahim
The Motorcycle Cops
as Funeral parlor spy
Hardboiled Egg Time
as L'expert en tableaux
Sans famille
as George, Milligan's valet
La Parisienne
as Un huissier d'ambassade (uncredited)
The Spies
as Peterson
No Sun in Venice
Girl on the Third Floor
as Le barman du Montana (uncredited)
Frou-Frou
as Le critique en peinture (uncredited)
School for Love
as Violin teacher
