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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1924-04-07 (101 years old)

Place of Birth

Providencia, Santiago, Metropolitan Region, Chile

Daniel Emilfork

Biography:

Daniel Emilfork Berenstein (April 7, 1924 – October 17, 2006) was a Chilean stage and film actor.

Emilfork was born in Providencia, Chile after his Jewish socialist parents from Kiev fled a pogrom in Odessa. At age 25, he left Chile and settled in France, because, according to his friend Alejandro Jodorowsky, he didn't feel comfortable being a homosexual man in Chile. Emilfork's face was out of the norm and had made him a choice character actor for films such as The City of Lost Children (1995). He specialized in roles of villains. Previously he had played in The Devil's Nightmare (1971), Travels with My Aunt (1972) and Fellini's Casanova (1976), in Roman Polanski's Pirates (1986) and in Taxandria (1994). He carried on acting up until his death, his last film appearing in 2007. Emilfork's voice and accent when speaking French was extremely striking and unique. He died in Paris, France.

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Known For

Acting

2010

Patrice Chéreau, the body at work as Self (archive footage)

2005

The Accursed Kings as Maître Martin

1996

Taxandria as First Minister

1995

1994

1988

1987

Riviera as Messenger

1986

Pirates as Secretaire
The Passage as La Mort

1983

The Beautiful Prisoner as Inspector Francis

1982

1979

Subversion as Cagliostro

1978

1976

Fellini's Casanova as Marquis Du Bois

1974

Chéri-Bibi as Le Kanak

1972

Travels with My Aunt as Colonel Hakim
Midi trente as Self

1971

Kill! as Mejid
Samedi soir as Self

1970

1969

The Hand as Le professeur

1967

1966

Trans-Europ-Express as le policier

1965

What's New Pussycat? as Gas Station Man
Tell Me Whom to Kill as Teotihuacan
Le commissaire mène l’enquête as The blind man (segment "Fermez votre porte")
Lady L as Kobeleff
The Liquidator as Gregory

1964

1963

Who Stole the Body? as Igor, Professor Hippolyte's butler

1962

1961

Midnight Meeting as Le joueur de baccara

1960

1959

Riff Raff Girls as Luigi le Napolitain
The Motorcycle Cops as Funeral parlor spy
Goha as L'aveugle Ibrahim

1958

Hardboiled Egg Time as L'expert en tableaux
Sans famille as George, Milligan's valet

1957

The Spies as Peterson
La Parisienne as Un huissier d'ambassade (uncredited)

1955

School for Love as Le professeur de violon
Frou-Frou as Le critique en peinture (uncredited)
Girl on the Third Floor as Le barman du Montana (uncredited)