Marcel Dalio

Marcel Benoit Blauschild was born in Paris in 1899 to Romanian Jewish immigrant parents; his Jewish name was Israel Mosche. He was the Jewish officer Rosenthal in Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion (1937) and the marquis in La Règle du jeu (1939), two of the greatest films ever made. He escaped in 1940 and reached the United States, where his French papers were refused and he arrived nearly destitute; in occupied France the German authorities put his face on posters as the image of "a typical Jew". His parents and much of his family were murdered in the camps. He returned after the war and worked in nearly two hundred films on both sides of the Atlantic, including Casablanca and, later, The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob.