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![]() Michael Visaroff in The Son of Monte Cristo (1940)
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Born |
Moscow, Russia |
December 18, 1892
Died | February 27, 1951 Hollywood, California, USA |
(aged 58)
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1925-1952 |
Michael Simeon Visaroff (December 18, 1892 – February 27, 1951) was a Russian American film actor, a graduate of the Russian Principal Dramatic School, he started his career on stage, before making the transition to film, appearing in 113 films between 1925 and 1952. He was best known for his uncredited appearance in an early scene of Dracula (1931) as the nervous Hungarian innkeeper who, as Renfield is traveling to meet the Count, warns him about the actual existence of vampires. He was born as Mikhail Semenovich Vizarov (Russian: Михаил Семёнович Визаров) in Moscow and was married to Nina Visaroff and died in Hollywood, California, from pneumonia.