Carl Jaffe

Carl Jaffe (21 March 1902 – 12 April 1974) was a German Jewish actor. Jaffe trained on the stage in his native Hamburg, Kassel and Wiesbaden before moving to Berlin, where his career took off. In 1933 Jaffe changed his stage name to Frank Alwar in an attempt to minimise problems arising from his Jewish surname, but in 1936, with the situation for Jews in Germany rapidly deteriorating, he made the decision to join the exodus of Jewish actors from Germany to the United Kingdom. He remained in the UK for the rest of his life and enjoyed a prolific career, appearing in over 50 films and many television productions. Throughout his British career he was almost invariably cast as German or Central European characters, usually in supporting...