Leon Askin

Leon Askin's biography

Leon Askin is 98 years old screenwriter born at Vienna. He was born on Wednesday 18th of September 1907. According to year of birth 1907 he belongs to Greatest Generation. Birthday on 18th of September means he is Virgo. Virgo is an earthy sign of Zodiac Belt. People born under this Rising Sign are practical in nature. They believe in reality and represents themselves as a strong person.

He is citizen of Austria. His primary profession is to be screenwriter. You can know him also as stage actor, film actor. He is recently known as television actor.

Leon Askin's career

His main focus is to be screenwriter.

How did Leon Askin die

He died on on Friday 3rd of June 2005 when he was 98 years old at Vienna. Leon Askins death was caused by natural causes.

Leon Askin's quotes

• We wanted to bring the political situation in Austria on stage. Naturally we could not do that without pointing to Austrian's northern neighbor Germany.
• In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of meat in it, in the evening we had a very thin meat soup with some potatoes in it.
• The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre.
• To be a Dumont actor was considered to be a great honor for an actor, yet it also had its disadvantages.
• Directors and producers were afraid of a Dumont actor while at the same time they admired him.
• At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth.
• From that moment on I knew my profession in life was and has remained until today an actor's life.
• It is a great deal of difference to receive an honorary title or a title in his profession.
• A Dumont actor was considered to be too stilted - the way we Dumont actors used to speak.
• It was one of the great chances in my life to become a Dumont actor.
• Especially for my father it was a great change. He used to be a socialist and even a member of the socialist party. But then he became an orthodox Jew.
• 1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honor for art and science. These titles and the various honors mean a great deal to me, most of all for the reason that they would mean a great deal to my parents too.
• Unfortunately I put the opening date on the 5th of December 1941 and on the 7th of December the Japanese bombarded Pearl Harbor. My dream of a theater in Washington D.C. came to a prompt end.
• I was put in the Air Corps. I was never educated to serve in the military, but soon my activities in the American Air Corps became very interesting to me.
• My father was an ardent socialist for many years.
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