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Paul Lukas

Paul Lukas, Hungarian-American actor and singer (died 1971)

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Born
May 26, 1895
Died
August 15, 1971
Zodiac sign
Gemini
Birth year
1895

About Paul Lukas

Paul Lukas was a Hungarian actor. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor, and the first Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama, for his performance in the film Watch on the Rhine (1943), reprising the role he created on the Broadway stage. Lukas' haggard, loving, resourceful determination becomes heroic by virtue of his sincerity and his superior abilities as an actor." He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the role. At first, he played elegant, smooth womanizers, but increasingly, he became typecast as a villain.

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The world when Paul Lukas was born

Paul Lukas was born in 1895. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1895

  • Top movieWorkers Leaving the Lumière Factory (first public film)

Headlines and milestones

  • Top headlineCuban War of Independence begins
  • Technology milestoneLumière brothers hold first public film screening
  • World population~1.55B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderGrover Cleveland
  • U.S. population68.0M

1895 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Paul Lukas's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure18952026
Population68.0M341 million

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