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A lookalike named Eugene Weingand attempted to pass himself off as this actor’s son and legally changed his name to “[this actor] Jr.” A caricature of this actor acts as the sidekick to an Edward G. Robinson stand-in in an early version of the Rocky and Mugsy duo in Racketeer Rabbit. A fish version (15[1])of this actor says, “Now I’ve (15[1])seen everything” and shoots himself in Horton Hatches the Egg. The local cinema in Under the Volcano shows a 1935 film in which this actor (*) grafts a homicidal knife-thrower’s hands onto a car accident victim. Jack Warner fired this actor over his friendship with Bertolt Brecht on the heels of nine movies in which this actor was paired with Sydney Greenstreet. For 10 points, (-5[1])cringing villains were a speciality of what Austro- Hungarian actor? ■END■

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