Frederick Valk | |
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 in Hotel Reserve (1944) | |
| Born | 10 June 1895 |
| Died | 23 July 1956 (aged 61) London, England |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1920s–1956 |
Frederick Valk (10 June 1895 – 23 July 1956) was a German-born Jewish stage and screen actor of Czech Jewish descent who fled to the United Kingdom in the late 1930s to escape Nazi persecution, and subsequently became a naturalised British citizen.
Despite making his later career in the English-speaking world, Valk never attempted to shed his heavy accent in either his stage or film work, and it became a trademark, particularly in film where he was often the first choice for a role which called for a German or generic Central European accent.