Robert Strauss

Robert Strauss (November 8, 1913 – February 20, 1975) was an American actor. He became most familiar in Hollywood films of the 1950s such as Stalag 17, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award in the category of Best Supporting Actor.

Career Strauss began his career as a classical actor, appearing in Twelfth Night and Macbeth on Broadway in 1930. Comedy became his specialty, and he was known best as Stalag 17's Stanislas "Animal" Kuzawa, a role he created in the original 1951 Broadway production and reprised in the 1953 film adaptation, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He was first married to Audrey Bratty from 1951 to 1960. They had three children, Deena, Deja and David. After their divorce in 1960, he married Virginia Deeb the following year and remained with her until his death.

Death Strauss was incapacitated during the final years of his life from the effects of multiple bouts of electroshock therapy applied to combat depression. He then suffered a paralyzing stroke. He died from an additional stroke on February 20, 1975 at the New York University Hospital.

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