- Father of actor Joseph Schildkraut.
- In 1923, along with the entire cast of the Yiddish drama "God of Vengeance", he was arrested and fined $300 for putting on an immoral play. Three years later the charges were dismissed on appeal.
- Was known in Europe for his work in comic opera and classic drama.
- Made 10 films for the German motion picture company, U.F.A.
- He was married to Erna (Weinstein), with whom he had a son, Joseph Schildkraut (1896-1964), who was also known as an actor.
- Rudolf Schildkraut adjoined a touring company at the age of 14 and later on he played on famous stages in Vienna.
- In 1925 he founded his own Jewish theatre in the Bronx.
- In 1920 he moved permanently to the United States and made his debut the same year in New York in the play Silent Forces. From 1922 he also played in the English language.
- After 1915 Rudolf Schildkraut emigrated to the USA for good and he took part in several film productions.
- In 1893 he moved to Vienna to an engagement at the newly opened Raimund Theater.
- The older Rudolf Schildkraut appeared in first movies from 1913.
- Rudolf Schildkraut became the most grateful roles at the theater where he always did his best but when he performed the play "God of Vengeance" on Broadway, he and the whole troupe were detained on obscenity charges.
- He had his great breakthrough during an engagement at Max Reinhardt's theater in Berlin.
- In 1900 he came to the German Theatre in Hamburg, 1905 to the German Theatre in Berlin. There he became one of the most important actors in the theatre company of Max Reinhardt.
- His son - actor Joseph Schildkraut - said about the acting ability of his father: "None of his creation can be reduced to a simple formula because he reflected each character in all his complexity and conflicts.".
- Schildkraut performed for the first time in the United States in 1910-11.
- His Shylock, which he played in 1905 and 1913, in Reinhardt's productions of The Merchant of Venice, was praised by Fritz Kortner as a "monument to the art of acting." Other major roles were the title role in King Lear (1908), Mephisto in Faust I (1909), Muley Hassan in Friedrich Schiller's Fiesco (1909), the grave-digger in Hamlet (1909), and Peter Bast in Knut Hamsun's From the Devil Fetched (1914).
- In 1898 he moved to the Carl Theatre.
- He debuted in the early 1880s in Sopro; his first solid role came in 1885 in Krems.
- He grew up in Braila, Romania. In Vienna, he received acting lessons from Friedrich Mitterwurzer.
- In 1911 - when Rudolf Schildkraut was asked to convert to Christianity - he left Germany and went to the USA where he was able to continue his career. But as an artist he was very disappointed in the USA and he returned to Germany.
- The Jewish actor Rudolph Schildkraut was born in Konstantinopel (other sources mention Austria).
- His parents ran a hotel.
- Schildkraut was known as a film actor in the German Empire in the early silent era. He starred in several film dramas. His last European-made film was a biography of the German Zionism founder Theodor Herzl, in which he played Herb Schildt "The Struggling Israel.".
- In his last five years he appeared in several Hollywood productions. His most notable film, which raised his profile in America, was The King of Kings by Cecil B. DeMille (1927), in which he played the High Priest Caiaphas.
- He first began to play roles in the United States in German, then in Yiddish and eight years later he mastered the English language.
- Rudolph Schildkraut died at the home of his son, film star Joseph Schildkraut, as a result of a heart attack which he suffered while working at a film studio.
- He became an actor in his early youth, appearing in South America, Asia and Europe with his son, Joseph, with whom he subsequently appeared in the United Stares also.
- In the 20s Schildkraut appeared with his own company for a while in a small Yiddish theatre in the Bronx which he owned and managed.
- He had played many Shakespearean roles in Europe under Max Reinhardt, in whose "Miracle" he appeared both here and in the United States.
- His son also died at the same age, also of a heart attack.
- He made his debut as an actor in English in Sholom Asch's "God of Vengeance" in December, 1922, in which he was acclaimed by all the New York critics and which drama he had first played seventeen years before in German, when it was produced by Max Reinhardt in Berlin.
- Schildkraut died at the age of 67 years of a heart attack, in Los Angeles. He is interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California.
- In 1910 Rudolph Schildkraut first came to America as the head of a German company at the Irving Theatre and appeared there in many roles in German and Yiddish.
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