Igo Sym
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Sym about 1937
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| Born |
Karol Juliusz Sym July 3, 1896 Innsbruck, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | March 7, 1941 (aged 44) Warsaw, General Government |
| Occupation | Soldier, film actor, later entertainer and Gestapo agent |
| Years active | 1925–1941 |
Karol Juliusz "Igo" Sym (July 3, 1896 – March 7, 1941) was an Austrian-born Polish actor and collaborator with Nazi Germany. He was killed in Warsaw by members of the Polish resistance movement.
Sym was born in Innsbruck, the son of Anton Sym from Niepołomice in Galicia and his wife Julia (née Sepp). It is not known why he had chosen to settle in Poland or when exactly it happened. During World War I he served in the Austro-Hungarian Army, becoming a lieutenant. After the war, he served in the Polish Armed Forces infantry in the rank of a First Lieutenant, until in 1921 he took up the job of a bank attorney.
Sym's movie debut took place in 1925, in a film called Vampires of Warsaw (of which no copy is known to exist). Handsome and athletic, he often played aristocrats and army officers. In 1927 he left for Vienna, where he signed a contract with the Sascha-Film production company. In late 1920s Sym worked mainly in Austria and Germany, appearing with such actresses as Marlene Dietrich, Anny Ondra and Lilian Harvey in silent movies like Die Pratermizzi or Café Elektric directed by Gustav Ucicky.
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