Stage career Martin Miller (actor)

the ambassadors theatre miller portrayed mr. paravinci in mousetrap

in 1939, miller co-founder of viennese theatre club of paddington, celebrated émigré cabaret , theatre , known das laterndl. theatrical group of talented austrian exiles, included likes of lona cross, fritz schrecker , marianne walla became known sketches , plays represented satirical commentary on vienna under nazi rule . miller achieved fame parodies of adolf hitler, , asked portray hitler in bbc german service s propaganda campaign. continued employed bbc after war german-language author, actor, presenter , producer rest of life. did work arranging plays german , austrian diaspora; instance arranged production of johann wolfgang von goethe s iphigenia in tauris in german @ wyndham s theatre in october 1949 in coordination british goethe festival society.

on stage miller noted in particular roles dr. einstein in arsenic , old lace between 1942 , 1946 , mr. paravinci in agatha christie s mousetrap @ ambassadors theatre 1952, role in described elderly foreigner painted face makes half devil, half jack-in-the-box . worked in london , new york city, , played paravinci on 1000 performances.

in 1951, miller appeared alongside lily hann, alan tilvern, gabriel woolf , alfie bass in production of emanuel litvinoff s magnolia street story @ embassy theatre. @ end of 1959 appeared in successful musical make me offer @ theatre workshop in stratford , new theatre on west end, taking place least scrupulous , amusing of dealers lighter entirely acceptable rendering .