Long careers are rarer than they look, and Daniel Emilfork has become a familiar face with a body of work built one job at a time. Among all the titles, 'The City of Lost Children' is the one that reached the widest audience. Viewers may also know him from 'Pirates'. The trail of credits goes back as far as 1955. Careers that pass the 71-year mark are a small club.
Daniel Emilfork
82 years (Apr 7, 1924 – Oct 17, 2006)Providencia, Santiago, Metropolitan Region, Chile
48 Movies2 Series
Long careers are rarer than they look, and Daniel Emilfork has become a familiar face with a body of work built one job at a time. Among all the titles, 'The City of Lost Children' is the one that reached the widest audience. Viewers may also know him from 'Pirates'. The trail of credits goes back as far as 1955. Careers that pass the 71-year mark are a small club.
Daniel Emilfork Berenstein (April 7, 1924 – October 17, 2006) was a Chilean stage and film actor.
Emilfork was born in Providencia, Chile after his Jewish socialist parents from Kiev fled a pogrom in Odessa. At age 25, he left Chile and settled in France, because, according to his friend Alejandro Jodorowsky, he didn't feel comfortable being a homosexual man in Chile. Emilfork's face was out of the norm and had made him a choice character actor for films such as The City of Lost Children (1995). He specialized in roles of villains. Previously he had played in The Devil's Nightmare (1971), Travels with My Aunt (1972) and Fellini's Casanova (1976), in Roman Polanski's Pirates (1986) and in Taxandria (1994). He carried on acting up until his death, his last film appearing in 2007. Emilfork's voice and accent when speaking French was extremely striking and unique. He died in Paris, France. Daniel Emilfork licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.