Marcel Dalio

He was born Israel Mosche Blauschild of Rumanian immigrant parents in Paris. He trained as an actor at the Paris Conservatoire and in 1920 began playing in revues, then films. His first major role was the informer in Julien Duvivier's 1936 classic Pepe Le Moko, followed by two films directed by Jean Renoir, Le Grand Illusion, in which he played a prisoner-of-war comrade of Jean Gabin and Pierre Fresnay, and Le Regle du Jeu in which he played an aristocrat.

He fled France with his second wife, Madelaine Lebeau, ahead of the invading German armies, which used his portrait on posters as a typical Jew. All other members of his family died in concentration camps.

Mr. Dalio arrived in Hollywood with $17 and no knowledge of English, and was taken care of by the French there - including Charles Boyer, Rene Clair, Jean Renoir and Julien Duvivier. At 40, he learned English and started appearing in major Hollywood films.

He returned to Paris after the war to play in several films, but in the 1950's worked mostly in American movies - including The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Sabrina. He settled in Paris again in the 1960's and continued to appear in French films into the late 70's.