Creighton Hale	George Meeker	Trude Berliner	Corinna Mura	Olaf Hytten
William Edmunds	Georges Renavent	Louis V. Arco	Monte Blue	Geoffrey Steele
Paul Porcasi	Alberto Morin	Frank Puglia	Jean Del Val	Leo Mostovoy

Creighton Hale as the Dubious Gambler: Born into a theatrical family as Patrick Fitzgerald on May 24, 1882 in County Cork, Ireland. He was educated in Dublin and London. In 1912, he married Victoire Lowe and they had two children, Robert Lowe and Creighton.
            He began his stage career at an early age, appearing in various London productions. He came to America with a theatrical touring company in "The Dawn of Tomorrow" with Gertrude Elliott. While starring in Charles Frohman's Broadway production of Indian Summer, Hale was spotted by a representative of the Pathe film company and invited to appear before the cameras. This was the start of a career as a silent movie actor that would lead Hale to eventually appear in 250 movies! Almost all of them were small uncredited roles. His first movie was The Million Dollar Mystery in 1914. Director D.W. Griffith used Hale as comedy relief in his films Way Down East in 1920 and Orphans of the Storm in 1922, along future Casablanca actor Monte Blue.
            He appeared in the Our Gang serials as the older brother to Miss Crabtree (June Marlowe). In 1929, he starred in Seven Footprints to Satan.
            As the years passed, Hale was no longer one of the Warner Bros. big stars. He was one of the many actors that faded with the arrival of talking pictures. He stayed on at the Studio receiving small roles in movies. Jack Warner kept faded silent movie stars, like Hale, Monte Blue and Leo White, on the payroll at Warner Bros. by keeping them employed with small bit roles.
             In 1939, Hale appeared in Warner Bros. anti-Nazi film Confessions of a Nazi Spy starring Edward G. Robinson and including other Casablanca actors Wolfgang Zilzer (man with expired papers), Hans Twardowski (German with Yvonne) and Lotte Palfi (women selling her diamonds).
            In 1941, he appeared in an incredible 23 movies, including playing a police stenographer in The Maltese Falcon with Bogart, Greenstreet and Lorre [editors note: I have seen this scene and I just can't make the connection between the person in that movie and the one we see in Casablanca]. He also appeared that year in Larceny Inc. starring Robinson and Sergeant York starring Gary Cooper and featuring Casablanca bit actor Jean Del Val (police radioman).
            Among the dozen movies he appeared in during 1942, he received a bit part in Yankee Doodle Dandy starring Jimmy Cagney and directed by Casablanca director Michael Curtiz. It also featured other Casablanca actors S.Z. Sakall (Carl), Leon Belasco (waiter) and Leo White (waiter).
            Later that year, he was signed to do one scene in Casablanca. He portrays a gambler, wearing a monocle, in Rick's casino who witnesses Jan (Helmut Dantine) win at roulette and stands over Carl inquiring "Are you sure this place is honest?" To which Carl replies, "Honest? As honest as the day is long!" Also that year, Hale appeared in Spy Ship which also featured Casablanca actors White, Olaf Hytten (man being robbed at the bar) and George Meeker (Rick's American friend).
            The following year, he had a small role in another Humphrey Bogart movie, Action in the North Atlantic with other Casablanca role actors Blue, Del Val, Meeker, Ludwig Stössel (Mr. Leuchtag), Louis V. Arco (conspirator) and Frank Puglia (merchant). In 1946, he appeared again with Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre in the mystery thriller The Verdict along with other Casablanca actors White, Hytten and Gerald Oliver Smith (pickpocketed Englishman).
             Interestingly, Hale appeared in The Perils of Pauline, a biography of silent film star Pearl White, in 1947. Hale had starred as Walter Jameson in three early episodes of a serial with White back in 1914 called The Exploits of Elaine.
             In 1950, Hale played a cab driver in Backfire starring Virginia Mayo, Gordon MacRae and Edmond O'Brien along with Monte Blue. Blue and Hale again appeared in the western Montana starring Errol Flynn and S.Z. Sakall. This was the 25th and last film, going back to Griffith's Orphans of the Storm in 1921, that Blue and Hale appeared in together.
            He went on to have many more bit parts including; Mr. Skeffington starring Claude Rains and Bette Davis, Johnny Belinda starring Jane Wyman and Lew Ayres, Sunset Boulevard starring William Holden and Gloria Swanson and Goodbye, Mr. Fancy starring Joan Crawford and Robert Young. His last role was that of an irritated stagecoach passenger in the 1959 Randolph Scott western Westbound.
             Hale died at age 83 on August 9, 1965 in South Pasadena, California. He was cremated at Chapel of the Pines, Los Angeles and the ashes were said to have been sent to Duncans Mills Cemetery in Duncans Mills, California.

George Meeker as Rick's American friend: Born on March 5, 1904 in Brooklyn and studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Art following high school. After some stage experience, he made his Broadway debut with "Judy Drops In" in 1924 and went on to appear in a handful of plays including "A Lady's Virtue", "Back Here" and "Conflict". From here, he switched to film appearing in over 175 films in the 23 years between 1928 and 1951.
              Tall, handsome, wavy-haired character actor George Meeker was never in the upper echelons of Hollywood stardom. Though he was respected as an expert polo-player. Meeker switched from stage to screen in the silent era. His first film was a large role of Andreas Bernle (one of the four sons) in the 1928 John Ford war drama, Four Sons starring Don Ameche and featuring future Casablanca bit actors Ludwig Stössel (Mr. Leuchtag), Torben Meyer (Dutch banker), Lotte Palfi (women selling diamonds) and Wolfgang Zilzer (man with expired papers).  
             In talkies, Meeker seemingly took every part that was tossed his way, from full secondary leads to one-line bits. In his larger roles, Meeker was frequently cast as a caddish "other man," a spineless wastrel who might be (but seldom was) the mystery killer, or the respectable businessman who's actually a conniving crook. He appeared in five movies in 1928 including another large role in The Escape and starring in the mystery Thief in the Dark and the westerns Chicken a La King and Girl-Shy Cowboy.
              He didn't work in a movie for the next three years before playing a major role in Strictly Dishonorable in 1931. He appeared in over 80, mostly "B", movies, throughout the 1930's. He lost Joan Blondell in The Famous Ferguson Case and later lost Irene Dunne in the Back Street, both in 1932. Making a habit of losing the girl, he lost Margaret Sullavan in Only Yesterday the following year. He showed more of his corrupt side in Afraid to Talk and some homicidal inclinations in the thriller Night of Terror, both in 1933, in which he manages to out-evil Bela Lugosi. His slick looks were nudgingly unpleasant and just this side of good-looking which were ideal for "B" mysteries. He was on the losing end in plenty of crime thrillers, including King for a Night starring Chester Morris in 1933 , The Dragon Murder Case starring Warren William in 1934 and Murder on a Honeymoon in 1935. He also had the role of Robespierre in Marie Antoinette in 1938, where he has one word, "Guilty!"
              In 1936, Meeker appeared in the classic Mr. Deeds Goes to Town starring Gary Cooper. The following year, he received a small part in Stella Dallas starring Barbara Stanwyck. In 1939, he received a bit part in the Oscar-winning classic Gone With The Wind where he plays a Union Army captain playing poker with Clark Gable. In 1941, he received a small role as Pfiffer in High Sierra starring Humphrey Bogart.
              In 1942, Meeker appeared in 13 films, one of them was a bit part in Casablanca. He has one line in one scene in the movie. After Ugarte's arrest, he says to Rick, "When they come to get me, Rick, I hope you'll be more of a help." To which Rick replies, "I stick my neck out for no one." Also that year, Meeker played a Nazi spy in Spy Ship which also featured Casablanca actors Olaf Hytten (man being robbed at the bar), Creighton Hale (dubious gambler) and Leo White (waiter).
               The following year, Meeker plays the guy who wins Mary Beth Hughes away from Henry Fonda in The Ox-Bow Incident. In 1945 and 46, Meeker played a gangster in a number of films including Mr. Muggs Rides Again, Crime, Inc. and Below the Deadline. In 1947, he played the swarmy would-be bridegroom of heiress Dorothy Lamour in The Road to Rio.
                By 1950, Meeker was reduced to appearances in serials like The Invisible Monster, Atom Man Vs. Superman and Government Agents vs Phantom Legion. He retired from acting in 1951.
               Meeker, suffering from alzheimer's, died at age 80 on August 19, 1984 in Carpenteria, California. He was cremated and his ashes were scattered in the Santa Barbara Channel off Santa Barbara, California.

Trude Berliner as Women Playing Cards: Born Gertrude Berliner on February 28, 1903 in Berlin, Germany. She was one of three Casablanca actors born in Berlin (along with Conrad Veidt and Curt Bois). She went on to be a famous cabaret performer in Berlin. In 1925, she appeared in her first movie, a silent film called Krieg im Frieden. Berliner would wait four years before her second movie, but her film career would then take off. In 1929, she appeared in Dich hab ich geliebt, which would become the first German talkie released in the United States.
            Trude appeared in a number of well known movies in Germany during the 1930's; Masken, Ich heirate meinen Mann, Der Hochtourist, Die unsichtbare Front, Grossstadtnacht and Kaiserwalzer.
            Es war einmal ein Musikus was her last movie in Germany. Released in 1933, it also featured S.Z. Sakall (Carl). This was the fourth German movie that Berliner and Sakall appeared together in.
            Being Jewish, she left Germany when Hitler and the Nazi Party came to power in 1933 and went to France. In 1939, she immigrated to the United States. Unfortunately, Berliner was not able to continue her movie career in the Hollywood, receiving only small bit roles in four movies. It would be three years before she received a part in any movie.
            Finally in 1942, Berliner received her first small part in a movie and it was in Casablanca. She got a bit role of a women playing baccarat, with the Dutch banker (Torben Meyer), who has one line in the movie. She says to Carl, "will you ask Rick if he will have a drink with us", to which Carl (S.Z. Sakall) responds, “Madame, he never drinks with customers. Never. I have never seen it.”
            Later that year, she had another bit part in the World War II romance Reunion in France starring John Wayne and Joan Crawford and including other Casablanca bit actors Henry Rowlands (German officer), Jean Del Val (police announcer) and William Edmunds (conspirator). The following year, Berliner played Frau Reitler in The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler.  This movie also had a number of other Casablanca actors and actresses; Ludwig Stössel and Ilka Grüning (Mr. and Mrs. Leuchtag), Richard Ryen (Colonel Heinz), Hans Twardowski (German officer with Yvonne), Wolfgang Zilzer (man with expired papers) and Louis V. Arco (conspirator). Her last movie was a small uncredited role as a German actress in the musical The Dolly Sisters in 1945 starring Betty Grable, June Haver and C.Z. Sakall.
            Berliner lived quietly in California until she died on February 26, 1977 in San Diego just two days shy of her 74th birthday.

Corinna Mura as Singer with guitar: Born Corinna Wall in 1909 in San Antonio, Texas. As a girl, she was trained to become a coloratura soprano. She performed for the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera. Her parents wanted her to continue an opera career, however Mura wanted to sing more popular music instead. This made her parents so upset that they had her committed to a rest home in Connecticut. It was there that she learned how to play the guitar. This led to a career in nightclubs. Mura would star on her own radio program called "The Corinna Mura International Salon" and she performed in the White House for President Franklin D. Roosevelt three times.
           Mura made her film debut in 1942 with a singing role playing Zana Zaranda in the musical comedy Call Out the Marines starring Victor McLaglen. Later that year, she played Loti in the war drama Prisoner of Japan starring Alan Baxter.
           Next, Mura received the part as a singer in Rick's Cafe in Casablanca. She plays the song "Tango Della Rose" while Victor Lazlo goes to the bar to talk to Burger. She is seen later giving a disdainful look to Strasser and a group of Nazi's coming into Rick's and then joins in with the singing of "La Marseilles." For her work, she received $2,000.
           The following year, she performed the love song in Michael Curtiz's Passage to Marseille which was written by Max Steiner. She is seen singing and playing the guitar in a French cafe called the "Auberge de Romilly", on Michele Morgan and Humphrey Bogart's wedding day, during the flashback within the flashback within the flashback scene.
             Mura appeared in her next and last film in 1947. She plays Senora Mendoza in the romantic comedy Honeymoon starring Shirley Temple and Franchot Tone.
              Mura died of cancer on August 1, 1965 in Mexico City.

Olaf Hytten as The man at the bar being pickpocketed: Born on March 3, 1888 in Glasgow, Scotland, but is of Norwegian decent. Both in Great Britain and the United States, Hytten would appear in an incredible 280 films over 34 years.
          Hytten, at age 33, started doing silent movies in Great Britain. In 1921, he left the British stage for films and appeared in his first movie called Demos. In 1924, Hytten came to the United States and appeared in his first American silent film, It is the Law. In 1929, he returned home to appear in the first talking picture made in Great Britain (the first half of the film was silent) Kitty based on the Warwick Deeping novel.
          After making a few more silent movies in Great Britain, Hytten returned to Hollywood to do The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu in 1930. With a few exceptions, Hytten continued to receive small uncredited roles through the 1930's like the Platinum Blonde in 1931. In 1933, he received a credited role of Sir Joshua Reynolds in Berkeley Square, a movie about a young American man, Leslie Howard, who is transported back to London during the American Revolution and meets his ancestors (Howard earned an Academy Award nomination).
            In 1934, Hytten appeared in 26 movies. Among them were The Mystery of Mr. X, The Moonstone playing Dr. Ezra Jennings, Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back, Mystery Liner playing Grimson's Assistant, Jane Eyre, British Agent playing Undersecretary Avery and Secret of the Chateau.
            In 1935, Hytten was even busier appearing in an incredible 30 films. In one, he received a small role in The Last Outpost starring Claude Rains. Later, he played a butler in Anna Karenina starring Greta Garbo and Fredric March. He also appeared in Bonnie Scotland and Atlantic Adventure.  The following year, he appeared in Lloyd's of London starring Tyrone Powers. Later, he portrayed King George II in the original Last of the Mohicans starring Randolph Scott and in Trouble For Two. In 1937, Hytten appeared in California Straight Ahead with a 30-year old John Wayne. Later that year, he appeared in another Wayne movie, I Cover the War. He also had a small role as a barber in Lancer Spy starring George Sanders and Peter Lorre and including other Casablanca actors Gregory Gaye (German banker) and Frank Puglia (Arab merchant). In 1938, Hytten received third billing in the mystery The Lone Wolf in Paris. Also that year, he appeared in The Adventures of Robin Hood starring Olivia DeHaviland, Errol Flynn and Claude Rains and A Christmas Carol starring Reginald Owen where he played young Ebenezer's schoolmaster.
            In 1939, Hytten had the small role of Guy Kibbee's butler in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington which starred Claude Rains. Hytten portrayed many English butlers throughout his acting career. Later that year, he portrayed another butler in Television Spy which also had future Casablanca actor, Wolfgang Zilzer (man with expired papers). He also portrayed British general Thomas Gage in Allegheny Uprising staring John Wayne.
            Hytten continued to receive small roles into the 1940's. In 1941, he received a role as a law clerk in the spy thriller Man Hunt starring Walter Pidgeon and Casablanca bit actor Ludwig Stössel (Mr. Leuchtag). Hytten also appeared in That Hamilton Women with Vivien Leigh and Lawrence Olivier (about Admiral Nelson and Lady Hamilton).
            After a number of movies in 1943, a few in which he again plays a butler in, he receives a small role in Casablanca. Hytten has one scene in the bar a Rick's. He is talking to Curt Bois, the pickpocket, who is warning him about thieves and stealing his wallet at the same time.
           In 1943, Hytten played a member of Parliament in Warner Bros.'s controversial film Mission to Moscow starring Walter Huston and including Casablanca actors Puglia, Helmut Dantine (Jan Brandel), Louis V. Arco (conspirator), Monte Blue (American), Oliver Blake (waiter in Blue Parrot), Gino Corrado (waiter), Jean Del Val (police radioman), Charles La Torre (Captain Tonnelli), Michael Mark (vendor) and Georges Renavent (conspirator). He also appeared as a pharmacist in Flesh and Fantasy starring Edward G. Robinson, Charles Boyer and Barbara Stanwyck.
          The following year, Hytten appeared as a hotel clerk in The Scarlet Claw and as a villager in the classic National Velvet starring Elizabeth Taylor and including Casablanca actors Gerard Oliver Smith and Norman Varden.
          In 1945, Hytten appeared in Confidential Agent starring Charles Boyer and Lauren Bacall and including other Casablanca actors Dan Seymour (Abdul) and Geoffrey Steele (Englishman at bar). He played Sidney Greenstreet's butler in Christmas in Connecticut starring Barbara Stanwyck and C.Z. Sakell. He appears early in the movie bring Greenstreet his mail. The following year, he again appeared in a Greenstreet movie when he received a small part in Three Strangers that also starred Peter Lorre and Geraldine Fitzgerald and Casablanca actor Leo White (Emil). Hytten plays a prison guard when Lorre is on death row. The following year, Hytten played Mr. Gordon in Black Beauty. He later appeared again with Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre in the mystery thriller The Verdict along with other Casablanca actors White, Creighton Hale (dubious gambler) and Gerald Oliver Smith (pickpocketed Englishman).
          Hytten continued to appear in films through the late 1940's, like Magnificent Doll starring Ginger Rogers, David Niven and Burgess Meredith in 1946. Later that year, Hytten and Torben Meyer (Dutch Banker) appeared in Alias Mr. Twilight. 1947 was a busy year for Hytten. He appeared in his fifth film featuring Sydney Greenstreet when he received a small part in That Way with Women. Also that year, Hytten played Lionel Bates in Bells of San Angelo starring Roy Rodgers, Dale Evans and Trigger. He followed this with an appearance in The Private Affairs of Bel Ami starring George Sanders and Angela Lansbury. Next, Hytten received a part as a butler in the drama The Imperfect Lady starring Ray Milland, Teresa Wright and Cedric Hardwicke. Hytten played an officer on the ship 'Star of London' in Cecil B. DeMille's historical war drama Unconquered starring Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Howard Da Silva and Boris Karloff (playing a Native American). He also had a part in If Winter Comes starring Walter Pidgeon, Deborah Kerr and Angela Lansbury.
          Hytten appeared in four films in 1949; Hytten appeared in the romance drama That Forsyte Women starring Errol Flynn, Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon, the musical comedy A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court starring Bing Crosby, The Secret of St. Ives which also had Jean Del Val and Challenge to Lassie starring Edmund Gwenn and, of course, Lassie.
          In 1951, Hytten played Commodore Harris in the pirate adventure Anne of the Indies. The following year, Hytten played a judge in Les Miserables starring Michael Rennie. Later he played King William III of Great Britain (William and Mary) in the action adventure Against All Flags starring Errol Flynn and Maureen O'Hara.
          Hytten's last two films were set during the period of Colonial America. In 1953, he played a British royal governor in Fort Ti (short for Fort Ticonderoga), starring George Montgomery, which was set during the French and Indian War. Two years later, he appeared in The Scarlet Coat which was set during the American Revolution. In this movie, he played British Major John Andre's butler (what else?). During the war, Andre, portrayed by Michael Wilding, was hanged by the American's as a spy.
          Hytten became a staple minor character in many classic horror movies over his long career. In 1941, he appeared in two classic horror movies, the first playing Hobson in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde starring Spencer Tracy and Ingrid Bergman followed by playing a villager in The Wolf Man starring Claude Rains and Bela Lugosi. The following year, he portrayed Hussman in another horror classic The Ghost of Frankenstein starring Lon Chaney Jr. and Cedric Hardwicke. Hytten appeared in another Lugosi film The Return of the Vampire in 1943. The next year, he appeared in The Invisible Man's Revenge and later as a bartender named Hoffman in House of Frankenstein starring Chaney and Boris Karloff. He played a constable in She-Wolf of London in 1946. Toward the end of his career in 1951, he appeared in The Son of Dr. Jekyll.
          Hytten was also a staple character in five Sherlock Holmes' mystery starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. In 1941, he played Admiral Sir John Prentiss in Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror. Two years later, he appeared as Captain MacIntosh in Sherlock Holmes Faces Death. In 1945, he played a gunmaker named Simpson in Pursuit to Algiers and a valet in The Woman in Green. The next year, he appeared as a auction house bookkeeper named Alfred in the last of the Rathbone/Bruce Sherlock Holmes movies, Dressed to Kill.
          One of Hytten's more moments came on television as the larcenous butler who participates in a scheme to drive Daily Planet editor Perry White crazy in the "Great Caesar's Ghost" episode of the TV series Adventures of Superman.
            Hytten died of a heart attack in his car in the 20th Century Fox Studio Parking lot while filming Sir Walter Raleigh on March 11, 1955 just 8 days after his 67th birthday. He was cremated at the Chapel of the Pacific in Woodlawn, Santa Monica and his ashes are in storage in the Woodlawn Mausoleum in Woodlawn Cemetery.

William Edmunds as A Conspirator in Rick's: Born on New Years Day in 1886 in Italy.
            Edmunds' first movie appearance was playing Goucho in Going Spanish in 1934. It was a short movie that was also the first for Bob Hope. After another movie, he received a small uncredited role as an Italian shopkeeper in Michael Curtiz's Angles With Dirty Faces in 1938 starring James Cagney, Pat O'Brien and Humphrey Bogart. The following year, he received a larger role in the Clark Gable comedy Idiot's Delight.
            Edmunds started receiving more roles, most of them, but not all, were uncredited. In 1940, his busiest year, he appeared in 13 movies, including a bit part in Mark of Zorro with Tyrone Powers. He also appeared in M-G-M's classic anti-Nazi film The Mortal Storm starring James Stewart, Robert Young and Margaret Sullavan. In this film, he has three scenes playing Lehman, the assistant and friend of the anti-Nazi German professor Viktor Roth (played by Frank Morgan of Wizard of Oz fame). He would do 11 more in 1941.
            In 1942, Edmunds received a fairly good role as store owner Hans Gruber in the anti-Nazi movie Berlin Correspondent with Dana Andrews. In the movie he, either foolishly or knowingly, turns in one of the anti-Nazi conspirators (played by Erwin Kalser). Future Casablanca actors like Wolfgang Zilzer (man with expired papers), Torben Meyer (Dutch banker), Henry Rowland (German officer), Richard Ryen (Colonel Heinz) and Louis V. Arco (conspirator) also had small roles in the movie. Later that year, he played the part of an unnamed Frenchman in The Pied Piper starring Monty Woolley as an Englishman trying to get out of German occupied France with an increasing amount of children. Otto Preminger portrayed the villainous Major Diessen and included future Casablanca actors Rowland, Marcel Dalio (Emil), Hans Twardowski (German with Yvonne), Helmut Dantine (Jan Brandel) and Jean Del Val (Police radioman).
            After this, at age 56, he received a bit role, with 32 words, as a conspirator in Rick's Cafe in Casablanca. His only scene is in the beginning when he is seated at a table telling a refugee who wants to escape that he should go the next night on a fishing smack called Santiago. He also reminds the refugee to, "bring the 15,000 francs in cash. Remember, in cash." Later that year, he had another bit part in the World War II romance Reunion in France starring John Wayne and Joan Crawford and including other Casablanca bit actors Rowlands, Del Val and Trude Berliner (female card player).
            The following year, Edmunds appeared in the war drama Edge of Darkness starring Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan and Helmut Dantine (Jan Brandel). He has a real bit part as an elderly Norwegian sailor (very hard to pick out). Later that year, he received a bit part in Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman and including other Casablanca actors Del Val, Alberto Morin (French officer), Frank Puglia (Arab merchant) and Franco Corsaro (conspirator). Also that year, Edmunds is seen driving a cart in Madame Curie starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon and featuring other Casablanca actors Ilka Grüning (Mrs. Leuchtag) and Leo Mostovoy.
            In 1946, Edmunds received his most memorable and famous role portraying Mr. Guiseppe Martini, the bar owner in Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life starring James Stewart, Donna Reed and Lionel Barrymore.
            The following year, he played King Hubertus II in the Bob Hope comedy Where There's Life. In 1948, he played an innkeeper in the action film The Three Musketeers starring Lana Turner, Gene Kelly and June Allyson. Edmunds last movie was a Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis comedy The Caddy in 1953 which also featured another Casablanca actor Frank Puglia.
            Edmunds died just three weeks short of his 96th birthday, on December 7, 1981 in Los Angeles. He was cremated and his ashes were scattered at sea.

Georges Renavent as A Conspirator in Rick's: Born Georges de Cheux in Paris, France on April 23, 1894. He came to Hollywood and started a career in silent pictures. Renavent would appear in over 140 pictures in his 37 year career. Of those 140 films, besides Casablanca, he appeared in, he worked with over 30 co-actors from the film Casablanca.
          His first film was the comedy The Seven Sisters in 1915. Fourteen years later, Renavent made an impressive talking picture bow as the villainous Kinkajou in RKO's musical spectacular Rio Rita. In 1931, he received a large role as Hashim, Prince of Marudu in East of Borneo. In 1935, he portrays a French ship captain in Captain Blood starring Errol Flynn and directed by Michael Curtiz. Renavent had a small role of Gen. Canrobert in another Curtiz movie, Charge of the Light Brigade along with future Casablanca bit actor Martin Garralaga (waiter). Renavent played De Lautruc in 1937's Jezebel starring Henry Fonda and Bette Davis and Casablanca bit actor Louis Mercier (Diamond merchant).
           An apparent favorite of producer Hal Roach, Renavent enjoyed a lengthy role in Roach's Turnabout in 1940, as Mr. Ram, the ancient Indian god who performs a gender-switch on stars John Hubbard and Carole Landis. Sporadically during the 1930s and 1940s, Renavent managed his own touring Grand Guignol theatrical troupe. Georges Renavent married actress Selena Royle.
          In 1939, Renavent had a small part as Admiral Jacques Delacour in one of the Peter Lorre's Moto movies Mr. Moto's Last Warning. This was one of a dozen movies he appeared in that year including a magistrate in Topper Takes a Trip starring Billie Burke and Roland Young and including Casablanca bit actors Torben Meyer (Dutch banker), Leon Belasco (dealer) and Paul Porcasi (man introducing Ferrari). He had a small part as Captain Fageon in the musical comedy The Three Musketeers starring Don Ameche and Gloria Stuart and Casablanca bit actor Gregory Gaye (German banker).
          The following year, Renavent played the French Ambassador in The Son of Monte Cristo starring Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett and George Sanders and including Casablanca bit actors Michael Mark (vendor) and Alberto Morin (French officer).
          Renavent played a hotel owner named Saunders in the  Bing Crosby/Bob Hope comedy Road to Zanzibar in 1941. He played another ambassador in That Night in Rio starring Don Ameche and Carmen Miranda and including other Casablanca actors Morin, S.Z. Sakall (Carl), Leonid Kinskey (Sascha), Curt Bois (pickpocket), Frank Puglia (Arab merchant), Gino Corrado (waiter) and Jean Del Val (police radioman).
          Later that year, he played a well-dressed journalist in King Vidor's comedy Comrade X starring Clark Gable and Hedy Lamarr along with Leon Belasco and Michael Mark. He has only one scene during the press conference given by Commissar Vasiliev (played by Austrian actor Oskar Homolka) where he replies to new restrictions placed on the journalists by the Communist government, "You might as well deport us if we can't get any stories out."      
          In 1942, Renavent played Henri in Now, Voyager starring Bette Davis, Paul Henreid and Claude Rains along with Frank Puglia. Later, he received a bit role as a conspirator in Rick's Cafe in Casablanca. His only scene is in the beginning when he is seated at a table playing dominoes telling another conspirator, "the trucks are waiting, the men are waiting" when he suddenly stops talking as two German soldiers walk behind him.
          The following year, Renavent played President Paul van Zeeland in Warner Bros.'s controversial film Mission to Moscow starring Walter Huston and including Casablanca actors Mark, Corrado, Del Val, Puglia, Helmut Dantine (Jan Brandel), Louis V. Arco (conspirator), Monte Blue (American), Oliver Blake (waiter in Blue Parrot), Olaf Hytten (man robbed at bar) and Charles La Torre (Captain Tonnelli). Later he appeared in Appointment in Berlin with other Casablanca actors Arco, Henry Rowland (German officer), Leo White (Emil) and Wolfgang Zilzer (man with expired papers).
          In 1944, he played a guard on Devil's Island in Passage to Marseille starring Bogart, Lorre, Greenstreet and Rains along with other Casablanca bit actors Puglia, Del Val, La Torre, Blue, Mercier and Corinna Mura (guitar singer). He next received a small role in The Mask of Dimitrios starring Sidney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre and including Blue, Mercier and Lotte Palfi (women with diamonds). Later, he played Monsieur Darnet in Storm Over Lisbon starring Austrian actor Erich von Stroheim and including Casablanca actors Corrado and Belasco.
          The following year, Renavent appeared in nine movies including; a maitre'd in the Hotel St. Mark in Those Endearing Young Charms starring Robert Young and including Casablanca's Norma Varden (english wife) and Dewey Robinson (usual suspect), a French general in Captain Eddie starring Fred MacMurray, a headwaiter in You Came Along starring Robert Cummings and Casablanca's La Torre, a guest in the musical biography of composer George Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue starring Robert Alda (Alan Alda's father), as Anton Miran in the crime drama Scotland Yard Investigator starring Erich von Stroheim and Casablanca's Hytten, as Dr. Lebreton in the drama This Love of Ours starring Casablanca's Claude Rains and included William Edwards (conspirator) and Richard Ryen (Col. Heinz), a ship captain in Saratoga Trunk starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman and including Casablanca's Corrado, Blue, Mercier and Bois and finally as a prefect in Cornered with Casablanca's Corrado, Del Val and Mercier. Also that year, he appeared with many other Casablanca actors like Edwards, Belasco, La Torre, Corrado, Garralaga, Meyer, Franco Corsaro (conspirator) and Ludwig Stössel (Mr. Leuchtag), in the M-G-M musical Yolanda and the Thief starring Fred Astair.  He has one small scene, early in the movie, on the train wearing a monacle and a red carnation and reading the paper.
          Renavent appearances in films started to decline after this. He played Guillard in 1946's The Catman of Paris and an immigration officer in The Return of Monte Cristo which also had Casablanca actor Del Val. He appeared in six movies in 1947 including; the comedy The Perfect Marriage starring Loretta Young, David Niven and Eddie Albert, Tarzan and the Huntress starring Johnny Weissmuller and Brenda Joyce, The Perils of Pauline with Casablanca actor Creighton Hale (dubious gambler) and The Foxes of Harrow starring Rex Harrison, Maureen O'Hara and Victor McLaglen.
          Renavent's next movie wasn't until 1949 when he worked again with many Casablanca stars Paul Henreid, Claude Rains and Peter Lorre playing Jacques the headwaiter in Rope of Sand which also starred Burt Lancaster and Sam Jaffe.
          From 1950 to 1952, Renavent appeared in six films including; Fortunes of Captain Blood with Casablanca actors Curt Bois and Alberto Morin, Secrets of Monte Carlo with Casablanca actor Charles La Torre, Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train with Casablanca actress Norma Varden, Mara Maru starring Errol Flynn and Casablanca actor Dan Seymour (Abdul the doorman), Son of Ali Baba starring Tony Curtis and including Casablanca actor Leon Belasco where he played the Shah of Persia. Renavent's last film was playing a French general in the Mario Lanza musical comedy Because You're Mine along with Casablanca actor Creighton Hale.
         Renavent died at age 74 on January 2, 1969 in Guadalajara, Mexico. He is buried next to his wife in Zapopan Cemetery in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Louis V. Arco as a Refugee in Rick's: Born Lutz Altschul in Baden, Austria-Hungary (now Austria) on July 24, 1899. Baden is just five miles south of Vienna.
            His first film was the German silent movie Liebesfeuer in 1925. Two years later, Altschul starred as Sacco in the Austrian silent film Sacco und Vanzetti. In 1929, he appeared in his last silent movie Napoleon auf St. Helena about Napoleon's last days. This movie was directed by Lupu Pick, who loved making silent movies so much that he couldn't handle the switch to talkies and ended up poisoning himself in Berlin in 1931.
            His first talkie was the film Rosenmontag (Rose Monday) in 1930. The following year, he appeared in Yorck (about the life of a Prussian general who fought against Napoleon). In 1932, Altschul appeared in his last German movie, Der Schwarze Husar (The Black Husar) starring Conrad Veidt (Major Strasser). After the Nazi's came to power in Germany in 1933, Altschul went home to Austria.
            After Hitler's forces took over Austria in the Anschluß of 1938, Altschul came to America and changed his name to Louis V. Arco. He was provided for by the European Film Fund (It was set up in 1938 to help the hundreds of members of the film industry who had escaped Nazi occupied Europe to survive in America - many of the more successful Casablanca people like Curtiz, Sakall, Henreid and Lorre contributed to the fund). Arco's first movie in America was the 1939 war drama Nurse Edith Cavell. In 1941, he received a small role in Warner Bros. war drama Underground which also featured other future Casablanca actors and actresses; Ilka Grüning, Lotte Palfi, Wolfgang Zilzer and Ludwig Stössel. Like many other German and Austrian actors who fled the Nazi's, he ended up portraying them in movies.
            In 1941, Arco had a small role as Dr. Bertheim in Hal B. Wallis documentary film Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet starring Edward G. Robinson. It also had future Casablanca bit actor Zilzer and Torben Meyer. The following year, Arco appeared in Desperate Journey with Errol Flynn and Ronald Reagan. This movie had five other Casablanca bit actors; Ilka Grünig, Hans Twardowski, Helmut Dantine, Richard Ryen and Henry Rowland.
            In 1942, Arco plays a Nazi radio sensor who ultimately is sent to the Russian Front by Martin Kosleck in Warner Bros.' anti-Nazi movie Berlin Correspondent with Dana Andrews. Future Casablanca actors like Wolfgang Zilzer, Torben Meyer, Henry Rowland, Richard Ryen and William Edmunds also had small roles in the movie.
            Later that year, Arco, age 42, received one scene as a refugee in Casablanca.  He is seen in the introduction to Rick's Cafe looking very depressed. He has one line, "waiting, waiting, waiting....I'll never get out of here....I'll die in Casablanca."
            In 1943, Arco appeared in 14 films, mostly playing Nazi's and mostly uncredited. In Edge of Darkness, starring Errol Flynn and with Helmut Dantine (Jan Brandel), he plays a German lieutenant, wearing a monocle, confiscating materials, like food and clothing, from a Norwegian town, in an extremely arrogant way. Jack Warner wanted to leave no doubt as to his opinion of the morals of the Nazi's.
            Later, Arco appeared in Warner Bros.'s controversial film Mission to Moscow starring Walter Huston and including Casablanca actors Dantine, Monte Blue (American), Oliver Blake (waiter in Blue Parrot), Gino Corrado (waiter), Jean Del Val (police radioman), Olaf Hytten (man robbed at bar), Charles La Torre (Captain Tonnelli), Michael Mark (vendor), Frank Puglia (Arab merchant) and Georges Renavent (conspirator). Arco played a another Nazi in Hostages, with Richard Ryen and William Edwards.  In the The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler, Arco portrayed a Gestapo officer. This movie also had a number of other Casablanca actors and actresses; Ludwig Stössel, Ilka Grüning (Mr. and Mrs. Leuchtag), Richard Ryen (Colonel Heinz), Hans Twardowski (German officer with Yvonne), Trudy Berliner (women baccarat player) and Wolfgang Zilzer (man with expired papers).
            Arco again played a Nazi in The Cross of Lorraine with Casablanca actors Peter Lorre, Richard Ryen and Hans Twardowski. In The Song of Bernadette, Arco got to get away from the Nazi image by portraying a Franciscan Monk. He also had a small role as a German submarine commander in another Humphrey Bogart movie, Action in the North Atlantic with other Casablanca role actors Monte Blue, Ludwig Stössel, Creighton Hale, Frank Puglia and Jean Del Val.
            Arco's roles started to diminish as the war came to a close. In 1945, he appeared in only one film, as a German colonel in the war drama Counter-Attack.
            After the Second World War ended in 1945, Arco returned to Europe. In 1949, he was working in West Germany and filmed Duell mit dem Tod where he used his birth name Lutz Altschul. He would only appear in three more films after this. He did Bergheimat in Austria in 1952 and Question 7 in West Germany in 1961. Arco's last film was done in Switzerland, a Swiss melodrama/documentary on abortion called Der Arzt stellt fest... in 1966.
            Arco died at age 75 on April 3, 1975, not in Casablanca, as his character stated in the movie, but in Zurich, Switzerland.

Monte Blue as an American: born Gerard Montgomery Blue on January 11, 1887 in Indianapolis, Indiana as one of five children. His father, a Union Civil War veteran had once served as a scout for famed frontiersman Buffalo Bill Cody. His father was killed in a car crash when he was eight and since his mother couldn't support such a large family, he and a brother went into an orphans' home (The Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home in Knightstown, Indiana) were they were raised. A very tall man at 6' 3", Blue learned to play football. As he grew up, he worked in many different kinds of physical labor from being a lumberjack to a coal miner. Moving west to California, he got a job as a laborer at D.W. Griffith Studios. It would be a short leap from laborer to stunt man to actor. He began in silent movies and would become a romantic leading man. He would appear in over 250 movies in a career that spanned over 50 years.
            His first experience in movies was as a stuntman in Griffith's Birth of a Nation in 1916. Griffith made Blue an assistant on his epic classic Intolerance the following year. He also got a small part in the movie. Gradually moving to support roles for both Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille, he earned his breakthrough role as Danton in Griffith's Orphans of the Storm along future Casablanca actor Creighton Hale (dubious gambler). From here, he became a stalwart in Hollywood, working opposite some of the top silent screen actresses of his time, like Clara Bow and Gloria Swanson.
             In 1919, he appeared in a Harry Houdini movie The Grim Game in which he did stunts in an airplane because Houdini had a fear of flying.
            After the divorce of his first wife, Erma Gladys, Blue married Tova Jansen, the daughter of Danish actor Bodil Ann Rosing (Confessions of a Nazi Spy) on November 11, 1924. They would have two children, Barbara Ann and Richard.
            He made the transition to talkies well, but lost most of his investments when the stock market crashed in 1929. By the 1930s, the aging star had moved back into small, often unbilled parts, continuously employed, however, by his old friend DeMille and Warner. Jack Warner kept faded silent movie stars, like Blue, Creighton Hale and Leo White, on the payroll at Warner Bros. keeping them employed with small bit roles.
            In 1942, he received a bit role in Casablanca. Blue is listed as being in the movie and certainly worked for Warner Bros. at the time, however, I have looked at this movie a hundred times and I have yet to be able to spot him. At 6 feet and 3 inches, he should stand out, but I haven't picked him out yet.
            Later, Blue appeared in Warner Bros.'s controversial film Mission to Moscow starring Walter Huston and including Casablanca actors Helmut Dantine (Jan Brandel), Louis V. Arco (conspirator), Oliver Blake (waiter in Blue Parrot), Gino Corrado (waiter), Jean Del Val (police radioman), Olaf Hytten (man robbed at bar), Charles La Torre (Captain Tonnelli), Michael Mark (vendor), Frank Puglia (Arab merchant), Georges Renavent (conspirator).
            Following Casablanca, Blue had a much larger role as Peterson, the Norwegian blacksmith, in the war drama Edge of Darkness with Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Judith Anderson and Walter Huston and other Casablanca actors Helmut Dantine (Jan Brandel), Henry Rowland (German officer), Torben Meyer (Dutch banker) and William Edwards (conspirator). When the townspeople are in the church discussing if they should take the British weapons to fight back, Blue gives a talk about how he almost opened a business in a nearby town that the Nazi's had obliterated. Later, he is arrested and his sentenced to be shot with the other conspirators (Flynn, Sheridan, Anderson, Huston, etc.), but is rescued when the other townspeople rise up in rebellion.
           The following year, he had a small role in another Humphrey Bogart movie, Action in the North Atlantic with other Casablanca role actors Ludwig Stössel (Mr. Leuchtag), Creighton Hale (dubious gambler), Louis V. Arco (conspirator), Frank Puglia (Arab merchant) and Jean Del Val (police radioman).
           After this, Blue started to appear more as law enforcement figures. In 1948, he had a good role as Sheriff Ben Wade in John Huston's Key Largo with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. In the movie, he shoots and kills Jay Silverheels (a.k.a. Tonto). Casablanca bit actor Marcel Dalio (Emil) is also in the movie.
            The following year he appeared in a number of films; again playing a sheriff in the crime drama Homicide starring Robert Alda (Alan Alda's father) and including Casablanca actor Creighton Hale, as Captain Jeffrey in the western South of St. Louis starring Joel McCrea and Alexis Smith, as a deputy in the western The Younger Brothers also featuring Hale, as a U.S. Marshal in the western Colorado Territory starring Joel McCrea and Virginia Mayo and Casablanca actor Oliver Blake, as an actor in 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' in the musical biopic of Marilyn Miller, Look for the Silver Lining starring June Haver and Ray Bolger and including Casablanca actors S.Z. Sakall (Carl) and Leo White (waiter), as a gas station executive in The Fountainhead starring Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal and Raymond Massey and including Hale and White and as Deacon Jones in The Big Wheel starring Mickey Rooney and Thomas Mitchell.
           In 1950, Blue was again playing mostly cops and sheriffs. In a pair of crime dramas he played Police Chief Ramsey in The Blonde Bandit and a Detective Plutherin in Backfire. Backfire starred  Virginia Mayo, Gordon MacRae and Edmond O'Brien along with Creighton Hale. Blue and Hale again appeared in the western Montana starring Errol Flynn and S.Z. Sakall. This was the 25th and last film, going back to Griffith's Orphans of the Storm in 1921, that Blue and Hale appeared in together.
          In the 1950's, Blue continued to appear in westerns, sometimes playing sheriffs, as he did in This Side of the Law and Dallas starring Gary Cooper and Ruth Roman and sometimes playing regular people like in Colt .45 starring Randolph Scott,  Three Desperate Men, Warpath starring Edmond O'Brien, Trail of the Arrow, Hangman's Knot starring Randolph Scott and Donna Reed, The Last Posse starring Broderick Crawford, Ride, Vaquero! and The Boy from Oklahoma starring Will Rogers Jr. and Lon Chaney Jr. He appeared with the Three Stooges in the western comedy Gold Raiders. Blue even plays the villain Jim Haverly in Snake River Desperados in 1951. 
           Blue also got to play Native Americans throughout his career. In 1936, he played an Indian in Gene Autry's Ride Ranger Ride. Three years later, he appeared as an Indian in Roy Rodger's Frontier Pony Express and in a pair of Cecil B. DeMille film's Union Pacific starring Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea and North West Mounted Police starring Gary Cooper. He played a chief in the 1949 "B" western movie Ranger of Cherokee Strip in which he is murdered by Frank Fenton. The following year, he played Sagamore, George Montgomery's Indian half-brother, in The Iroquois Trail set during the French and Indian War. He played Lone Eagle in another "B" western Rose of Cimarron. Finally in 1954, in the last film he made, Blue played the famous Indian chief Geronimo in Apache starring Burt Lancaster and Charles Bronson.  
           Blue also did a lot of work with television. From 1952 to 1955, Blue appeared as Sheriff Hollister in the western series Sky King starring Kirby Grant in the title role. He also had guest appearances in other western television shows between 1949 and 1960 including; The Lone Ranger (where in five episodes he played five different sheriffs), Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok, Indian Bureau Story, The Range Rider, Red Ryder, Annie Oakley, The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, Tales of Wells Fargo, Wagon Train and Rawhide.
           On March 23, 1956, his wife Tove passed away after 31 years of marriage. Three years later, Blue married Betty Jean Munson Mess. They had a daughter Tove who is a sound technician and has worked on movies such as Hook and Jurassic Park. At the end of his life he was working as an advance man for the Hamid-Morton Circus in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
           Blue died at age 76 of a coronary attack complicated by influenza on February 18, 1963 in Milwaukee. He was cremated and his ashes are interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California in the Columbarium of Fidelity in the Great Mausoleum (producer Hal B. Wallis and composer Max Steiner are also in the mausoleum but in different sections) in a nitch along with the ashes of his mother-in-law Bodil Ann Rosing. There are more major Hollywood stars buried at Forest Lawn than at any other spot in the world. It is a huge cemetery (over 300 acres) that also contains Casablanca co-stars Humphrey Bogart, S. Z. Sakall, Sidney Greenstreet, John Qualen and Martin Garralaga (headwaiter) along with director Michael Curtiz, producer Hal B. Wallis and composer Max Steiner.

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Geoffrey Steele as a Customer at Rick's: Born on June 27, 1914. In his acting career, Steele would appear in 10 movies of which nine were unaccredited. His first role was an uncredited one in the 1938 movie Marigold.
            In 1942, Steele, at age 28, received his second bit role. In Casablanca he has a small scene as a customer in Rick's. He receives a drink from Sascha at the bar. Sascha wishes him, "Na zdorovie piei do dua"  which is a Russian version of "Cheers" [according to the script]. Steele replies, in his British accent, "Cheerio!" to a suddenly bewildered Sascha.
            The following year, Steele received two more uncredited roles; in The Constant Nymph with Charles Boyer which also featured Casablanca actors Marcel Dalio (Emil) and Richard Ryen (Colonel Heinz) and Holy Matrimony with Casablanca actor Olaf Hytten (man being robbed at bar).
            In 1945, he portrayed a hotel clerk in Confidential Agent with Lauren Bacall along with Peter Lorre, Dan Seymour (Abdul) and Hytten.
            Steele received his only credited role in 1946 when he portrayed Roland Carstairs in the Sherlock Holmes mystery Terror by Night with Basil Rathbone (the 2nd to last Holmes movie for Rathbone). His character is found murdered when the Star of Rhodesia diamond is stolen. Later that year, he had another bit role in Devotion with Paul Henreid and Sydney Greenstreet.
         In 1956, he portrayed British Major McEwen in D-Day the Sixth of June which was more of a romance movie then about the historic invasion of France. Also that year, Steele appeared in the television show Alfred Hitchcock Presents. In 1964, he had a small role as a taxi drive in the Oscar winning My Fair Lady with Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison. Steele's last movie, at age 68, was a bit role in 1983's Superman III where he has one scene on a elevator.
            Steele died on February 7, 1987 at age 72, in Los Angeles.

Paul Porcasi as the Native introducing Ferrari: Born on New Years Day in 1879 in Palermo, Sicily, one of two actors born in Sicily (the other being Frank Puglia). Porcasi began his career as an opera singer in Sicily. After coming to Hollywood, he received a part in the silent film Fall of the Romanoffs in 1917. This was his first of 136 films he would appear in. Porcasi made the transition to talkies well, playing numerous characters such as speakeasy owners, impresarios, chefs and restaurateurs. Porcasi was also cast in numerous nationalities such as Italian, French, Spanish and Greek.
           In 1929, Porcasi played one of his more memorable roles as Nick the Greek in Broadway.  In 1932, he played a garment merchant in Devil in the Deep, a dour border guard named Gonzalez in The Kid From Spain starring in Eddie Cantor and Harry the innkeeper in Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms with Gary Cooper.
           In 1933, he received a small uncredited role of a New York City apple seller who catches a starving Fay Wary trying to steal an apple in King Kong. In 1934, he played a French headwaiter in The Gay Divorcee with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. In 1936, he portrayed an Italian Opera Board Member in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town with Gary Cooper.
           In 1942, at age 63, he received one uncredited scene in Casablanca. He appears in the movie out in the marketplace telling an inquiring person/refugee about Senor Ferrari (Greenstreet), "It can be most helpful to know Senor Ferrari. He's pretty near got a monopoly on the Black Market here. You will find him over there at the Blue Parrot."
          In 1944, he played Mr. Peroni the Cafe Owner in Hot Rhythm and Spumoni in the musical Swing Hostess. His last film was playing the character Popolopolis in the crime mystery I'll Remember April in 1945. Porcasi died at age 67 on August 8, 1946 in Hollywood.

Alberto Morin as the French officer insulting Yvonne: born on November 26, 1902 in Puerto Rico. Morin received his education in France. While in that country he worked briefly for Pathe Freres, a major film distribution firm, then studied theater at the Escuela de Mimica in Mexico. Upon the advent of talking pictures, Morin was signed by Fox Pictures to make Spanish-language films for the South American market.
            He remained in Hollywood as a character actor. His first film was a bit part in the 1928 Gary Cooper movie Beau Sabreur. During his five decades in Hollywood, Alberto Morin received parts, mostly uncredited performances, in over 120 movies. In 1937, he received a small part in Café Metropole starring Loretta Young, Tyrone Power and Adolphe Menjou. In 1938, he received a small part in Alexander's Ragtime Band starring Tyrone Power, Alice Faye and Don Ameche.
            His first two credited roles came in 1939; Morin played Lt. Armando Costa in Wings of the Navy starring George Brent and Olivia de Havilland and later as Ramón Castello in Everybody's Hobby. Also that year, Morin had a bit part in the Oscar winning classic Gone With the Wind where he played Rene Picard in the Bazaar scene, "Twenty dollars. Twenty dollars for Miss Maybelle Merriwether." 
            In 1942, Morin portrayed a French military officer at Rick's Cafe Americain in Casablanca. He is drinking at the bar when Yvonne comes in with a German officer (Hans Twardowski). He insults Yvonne in French, "Dites-donc vous; vous n'etes pas Francaise vous, d'aller avec les boches comme ceci." (translation: Hey you, you are not French to go with the Germans like this) and then gets into a scuffle with Twardowski's character that has to be broken up by Rick.
            The following year, he received another bit part in the classic For Whom the Bells Toll starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman. In 1947, he had one scene as the skipper of Johnny Rocco's (Edward G. Robinson) getaway boat in John Huston's Key Largo with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. Morin's character was the only one that got away.
            In 1948, Morin received a credited role as Ramón DeLara in the Hopalong Cassidy film Strange Gamble. Next he had a bit part in The Three Musketeers starring Lana Turner, Gene Kelly and June Allyson. The following year, he received a small part in the John Wayne film The Fighting Kentuckian.
            Morin received a small part in Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion in 1950. This was followed by a larger part as Miguel Gonzáles in Fortunes of Captain Blood along with Casablanca actor Curt Bois (pickpocket), George Renavent (conspirator) and Martin Garralaga (waiter). Also that year, he played bad guy Il Taiib in the movie based on the U.S. Marines Tripoli starring Maureen O'Hara. Next, Morin received a good role as a French accented U.S. Cavalry lieutenant in the John Ford classic Rio Grande starring John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara and Victor McLaglen.
            Morin continued to receive small uncredited roles throughout the 1950's. He played a waiter in Titanic with Clifton Webb and Barbara Stanwyck in 1953. The following year, he played a French cafe waiter in Three Coins in the Fountain again starring Clifton Webb. In 1955, Morin played a detective in Alfred Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. Later that year, Morin, playing Major Riviere, along with other Casablanca French-speaking actors Marcel Dalio (Emil) and Louis Mercier (diamond smuggler), appeared in a movie about the French loss at Dien-bien-phu in Vietnam called Jump Into Hell.
            In 1957, he received a small role as a bartender in An Affair to Remember starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr. Two years later, he played Petucci in This Earth Is Mine starring Rock Hudson and Jean Simmons.
            It would be three years before Morin received another part as they diminished during the 1960's. Morin received a large part as General López in the John Wayne classic Hellfighters in 1968. He appeared in another John Wayne movie (his 5th total), Chisum, in 1970. The following year he appeared in the horror film The Mephisto Waltz starring Alan Alda and Jacqueline Bisset. He appeared in a number of television movies in the 1970's. In 1988, a year before his death, at age 82, he appeared in the comedy The Milagro Beanfield War.
            Morin also appeared on television. He was a regular as Armando Sidoni in the hit series Dallas from 1983 until 1985. He played Portuguese Admiral D'Ergay in the TV mini-series The Winds of War in 1983. Between 1952 and 1981, Morin appeared as a guest on numerous television shows including I Love Lucy, Maverick, Batman (playing Octave Marbot), The F.B.I., My Three Sons, The Green Hornet, Family Affair, The Flying Nun, Adam-12, The Bob Newhart Show, Barnaby Jones and Fantasy Island. He also had a guest appearance in 1955's television show Casablanca.
            Morin died of a stroke on April 7, 1989 in Burbank, California. He is buried in Riverside National Cemetery in Riverside, California.

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Frank Puglia as Arab Street Merchant: Born on March 9, 1892 in Sicily, one of two actors born in Sicily (the other being Paul Porcasi - person describing Senor Ferrari). Puglia started his career at age 15 when he joined a traveling operetta company in Italy. He appeared in Italian opera before coming to the United States in 1907 and joining an Italian theater group in New York.
            In 1921, while performing on stage as Pierre Forchard in a revival of The Two Orphans, he was spotted by legendary director D.W. Griffith and was hired immediately to repeat his role in the film version retitled Orphans of the Storm. Puglia's character Pierre Frochard was slated to die at the end of the film, preview-audience reaction to the death was so negative that Griffith called Puglia back to reshoot his final scenes, allowing him to survive for the fade-out. This would be the first of over 160 films Puglia would appear in portraying a wide variety of ethnic supporting parts, portraying priests, musicians, diplomats and street peddlers.
            In 1942, he received the bit role of an Arab merchant trying to sell some material to Ilse while she is talking to Rick. He automatically marks down his prices to any friends of Rick Blaine exclaiming, "Ah, for special friends of Rick's we have a special discount, 100 francs." He doesn't make the sale.
            The following year, he had a small role in another Humphrey Bogart movie, Action in the North Atlantic with other Casablanca role actors Monte Blue (American), Ludwig Stössel (Mr. Leuchtag), Creighton Hale (dubious gambler), Louis V. Arco (conspirator) and Jean Del Val (police radioman). Next, he played a judge in Warner Bros.'s controversial film Mission to Moscow starring Walter Huston and including Casablanca actors Arco, Blue, Helmut Dantine (Jan Brandel), Oliver Blake (waiter in Blue Parrot), Gino Corrado (waiter), Jean Del Val (police radioman), Olaf Hytten (man robbed at bar), Charles La Torre (Captain Tonnelli), Michael Mark (vendor) and Georges Renavent (conspirator).
            In 1944, he appeared in Passage to Marseille which stared Bogart, Rains, Greenstreet, Lorre and Dantine along with other Casablanca bit actors Monte Blue, Charles La Torre, Louis Mercier, Jean Del Val and Corinna Mura. He plays one of the guards on Devil's Island. He is seen looking down into a cell where Bogart's character is being held. He is ridiculing Bogart's character prompting Bogart to throw a bowl of water at him.
            Later that year, Puglia played a larger and less likable role as a treacherous minion to sultan Kurt Katch in Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. When the film was remade as Sword of Ali Baba in 1965, so much stock footage from the 1944 film was utilized that Puglia was hired to replay his original part. Puglia played Dr. Leonardo in the classic science fiction movie 20 Million Miles to Earth in 1957. 
            Puglia died on October 25, 1975 in South Pasadena, California. He is buried in the Abbey of the Psalms, Sanctuary of Faith Mausoleum in Hollywood Forever Cemetery with his wife Irene. This cemetery includes Casablanca actor Peter Lorre along with such famous stars like Rudoph Valentino, Douglas Fairbanks, Nelson Eddy, Janet Gaynor, Tyrone Power and Clifton Webb.

            French character actor Jean Del Val was a regular in American films from at least 1927, appearing in over one hundred motion pictures. In the early days of the talkies, he offered his services as translator and vocal coach for the French-language versions of American films. Many of his later roles were fleeting but memorable: in 1938 he's plays the French aviator in Block-Heads who rescues an over-aged doughboy Stan Laurel from the trenches telling Laurel's character, "Why, you blockhead. Ze war's been over for twenty years!"
             He next received a credited role as a French railroad official in The Pied Piper starring Monty Woolley as an Englishman trying to get out of German occupied France with an increasing amount of children. Otto Preminger portrayed the villainous Major Diessen and included future Casablanca actors Marcel Dalio (Emil), Henry Rowland (German officer), Hans Twardowski (German with Yvonne), Helmut Dantine (Jan Brandel) and William Edmunds (conspirator).
              In 1942, Del Val received a memorable part as the French police radio announcer who opens Casablanca by reporting the news of the murder of the two German couriers carrying letters of transit. Thus, he gets to first say the memorable, and much quoted line, "round up the usual suspects."
            The following year, Del Val had a small role in another Humphrey Bogart movie, Action in the North Atlantic with other Casablanca bit actors Monte Blue (American), Ludwig Stössel (Mr. Leuchtag), Creighton Hale (dubious gambler), Louis V. Arco (conspirator) and Frank Puglia (Arab merchant). Next, Del Val played Gene Lockhart's secretary in Warner Bros.'s controversial film Mission to Moscow starring Walter Huston and including Casablanca actors Arco, Blue, Puglia, Dantine, Oliver Blake (waiter in Blue Parrot), Gino Corrado (waiter), Olaf Hytten (man robbed at bar), Charles La Torre (Captain Tonnelli), Michael Mark (vendor) and Georges Renavent (conspirator). He also appeared in The Song of Bernadette, Paris After Dark playing Papa Benoit and For Whom the Bell Tolls starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman along with other Casablanca actors Martin Garralaga (head waiter), Franco Corsaro, William Edmunds (conspirator) and Alberto Morin (French officer insulting Yvonne).
             In 1944, Del Val appeared in Michael Curtiz's Passage to Marseille starring Michele Morgan and with Casablanca co-stars, Bogart, Lorre, Greenstreet, Rains and Dantine in Passage to Marseille along with other Casablanca bit actors La Torre, Blue, Puglia, Louis Mercier (diamond smuggler) and Corinna Mura. Del Val plays a French printer named Raoul who works for Bogart's newspaper. Del Val is killed when a French mob attacks the newspapers office. Later, Bogart is wrongly convicted of his murder.
             The following year, Del Val played a hotel manager named Henri Dutrelle in the mystery The Spider starring Richard Conte. Later, he received a small roles in Gilda starring Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford and The Razor's Edge starring Tyrone Power and Gene Tierney. He received a larger role in Columbia's So Dark the Night in 1946, a film seemingly conceived as a showcase for the best of Hollywood's foreign-accented bit players. In 1947, Del Val played a French member of the resistance in the World War II spy thriller 13 Rue Madeleine starring James Cagney and Richard Conte along with Casablanca actor Henry Rowlands.
             Del Val appeared 20th Century Fox's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes in 1953 starring Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe and including Casablanca bit actors Dalio, Leo Mostovoy and Norma Varden.
             In 1957, Del Val plays a hairdresser in Paramount's romance comedy Funny Face starring Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire. In 1959, Del Val, along with George Dee (Lieutenant Casselle) and Mercier, had a small part as Javot in the thriller The Wreck of the Mary Deare with Gary Cooper and Charlton Heston. In 1960, Del Val played a Parisian judge in Can-Can starring Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine and Maurice Chevalier along with other Casablanca actors Dalio and Leon Belasco. The following year, Del Val, Mercier and Dalio appeared in another Sinatra film The Devil at 4 O'Clock also starring Spencer Tracy.
             Del Val appeared in only three more films, all in the late 1960's. One of them was a crucial non-speaking role in Fantastic Voyage playing the comatose scientist, Jan Benes, whose arterial system and brain are explored by the miniaturized heroes and their ship. The following year was his next and last film, playing an old man in Wait Until Dark starring Audrey Hepburn.
            Del Val also was involved in television appearing in guests roles in "Mission: Impossible", "I Spy", "Combat!", "Twelve O'Clock High", "Bonanza", "Perry Mason", "Maverick" and "Climax!".
            Del Val died at the age of 83 from a heart attack on March 13, 1975 in Pacific Palisades, California. He is buried in an unmarked grave in Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.

Leo Mostovoy as Fydor, one of the usual suspects: Born on November 22, 1908 in Russia. After coming to the United States, Mostovoy appeared in 33 movies in a 17 year career.
          His first appearance was in the musical Paris Honeymoon in 1939 with Bing Crosby and Casablanca bit actor Gregory Gaye. He would appear uncredited in three more movies before 1942, including Road to Morocco with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope.
          In 1942, Mostovoy received the part of the Russian bartender at Rick's. Unfortunately for him, his role was replaced by Leonid Kinskey. He did get a small part during the 'round up the usual suspect' scene. For this, he was paid $ 2,267.
          Mostovoy continued a career of playing small uncredited parts in movies, usually as excitable chefs or headwaiters. His first credited movie was playing Yanovich in Song of Russia in 1943. The following year, he played a bandmaster in the war drama White Cliffs of Dover. He played waiters in Two Girls and a Sailor, Since You Went Away and Two Smart People. Mostovoy also had a small part in The Picture of Dorian Gray with George Sanders in 1945.
          In 1953, Mostovoy played Petlukoff in the musical Tonight We Sing. Later that year, he played the captain of the ship that was taking Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe to France in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. He followed this up with a bit part as Dr. Schillinger, a New York music teacher in The Glenn Miller Story starring June Allyson and James Stewart in the title role. Mostovoy is seen in a Harlem nightclub greeting Stewart. In 1956, he played a chef in the Mario Lanza film Serenade. His last movie came that year when he played a headwaiter in Death of a Scoundrel with George Sanders, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Yvonne Carlo.
          Mostovoy died on May 22, 1967 in Los Angeles, California.