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- Kurt Von Ruffin (born 1901, Munich, Germany, died 17 November 1996, Berlin, Germany) was a German actor and opera singer who was imprisoned by the Nazis for the crime of homosexuality. Von Ruffin began his career as a singer. After completing filming on Schwarzwaldmädel in 1933, Von Ruffin was denounced as a homosexual by another gay man who named him under torture, and imprisoned at Lichtenburg, where many gay men were imprisoned, for two years. After nine months in Lichtenburg, Von Ruffin was released thanks to the intervention of prominent theatre director Heinz Hilpert. From 1941 until the end of the war, he appeared only on stage.- IMDb Mini Biography By: gbbita
- Kurt von Ruffin took only part in few more movies after the war, because he found his main activity still at the theater.
- From 1927 he got first engagements at the opera of Magdeburg, later followed Mainz and Nuremberg.
- With the engagement to the Metropoltheater in Berlin for different operettas he began to intensify his acting activity. He made his film debut with operetta movies like "Die Faschingsfee" (1931) and "Walzerparadies" (1931).
- The actor Kurt von Ruffin began a musical career as a singer and studied on recommendation of Arturo Toscanini by Giuseppe Borgih in Mailand.
- He only appeared on stages from 1941, two years later he was infiltrated into the movie "Ich vertraue dir meine Frau an" (1943).
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