Oskar Werner
December, 1965
an oscar for oskar?In Europe, it is not Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud nor Richard Burton who is hailed as the premier delineator of Hamlet, but rather a flaxen-thatched Viennese actor, Oskar Werner, who is 43 and looks 23. Werner, as impresario and leading performer of the Theater Ensemble Oskar Werner, has triumphantly toured the Continent since 1959. American audiences first saw him in 1951, when he portrayed a German soldier employed as an Allied spy in the filmed-in-Europe Decision Before D...
