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 didnt feel comfortable being a homosexual man in Chile Emilforks 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 Devils Nightmare 1971 Travels with My Aunt 1972 and Fellinis Casanova 1976 in Roman Polanskis Pirates 1986 and in Taxandria 1994 He carried on acting up until his death his last film appearing in 2007 Emilforks voice and accent when speaking French was extremely striking and unique He died in Paris France Description above from the Wikipedia article Daniel Emilfork licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia