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Heinz Rühmann
Heinrich Wilhelm "Heinz" Rühmann (March 7, 1902 – October 3, 1994) was a popular German film actor. Rühmann was born in Essen, Westphalia. His role in the 1930 movie Die Drei von der Tankstelle (Those Three from the Gas Station) led him to film stardom. He remained highly popular as a comedic actor (and sometime singer) throughout the 1930s and early 1940s. He remained in Germany and continued to work during the Nazi period, as did his friend and colleague, Hans Albers. Description above from the Wikipedia article Heinz Rühmann, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For

Das Liebeskarussell
as Professor Hellberg

Ship of Fools
as Lowenthal

Faraway, So Close!
as Konrad

It Happened in Broad Daylight
as Oberleutnant Matthäi

Your Money or Your Life
as Henry Schmidt

The Punch Bowl
as Dr. Johannes Pfeiffer/Hans Pfeiffer

If the Father and the Son
as Teddy Lemke

The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes
as Dr. John H. Watson / Macky McPherson

Operation San Pietro
as Erik Braun

On the Reeperbahn at Half Past Midnight
as Pittes Breuer