MARLÉ, ARNOLD

MARLÉ, ARNOLD (1889–1970), German actor. Born in Prague, Marlé trained in Munich and was active as an actor and director in Munich and Hamburg. In 1933 he left Germany for Czechoslovakia, working at the German Theater in Prague from 1934 to 1937. In the 1930s, he accompanied Leopold Jessner's group to Holland and London. In 1939 he immigrated to London. He began appearing in English-language films in 1942 and later also played in television series and on the British and American stages. His wife, Lilli Freud-Marlé, whom he married in 1917, was a niece of sigmund freud , and became known as a reciter of poetry in various European cities. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Émigrés: 1933–1945, vol. 2 (1999), 781, incl. bibl. (David Rees (2nd ed.)