Anton Walbrook (born Adolf Anton Wilhelm Wohlbrück, 1896-1967), descended from 10 generations of Austrian actors, studied with director Max Reinhardt and built a career in Austrian theatre and cinema. In 1936, he went to Hollywood to reshoot dialogue for the multinational film The Soldier and the Lady (1937) and changed his name from Adolf to Anton. Rather than returning to Austria, Walbrook, who was gay, and classified under the Nuremberg Laws as "half-Jewish," settled in England and continued to work as a film actor, making a specialty of playing continental Europeans. His Red Shoes co-star Moira Shearer recalled him as a loner on set, often wearing dark glasses and eating alone. Walbrook retired from films at the end of the 1950s and, in later years, appeared on the European stage and television. He died of a heart attack at age 70.
In these pictures, Walbrook is in his 20s: