Daniel Emilfork

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1924-04-07 (82 years old)

Deathday

2006-10-17

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 (1...

Acting

1965

What's New Pussycat?

as Gas Station Man

1963

1972

Travels with My Aunt

as Colonel Hakim

1961

Midnight Meeting

as Le joueur de baccara

1962

The Doll

as 'Gant de Crin', the assassin

1976

Fellini's Casanova

as Marquis Du Bois

1959

Riff Raff Girls

as Luigi le Napolitain

1960

Pantalaskas

as The baron

1966

Trans-Europ-Express

as le policier

1983

The Beautiful Prisoner

as Inspector Francis

1955

School for Love

as Le professeur de violon

1987

Riviera

as Messenger

1971

Kill!

as Mejid

1970

Noon and Midnight

as Robert Lorrain

1979

Subversion

as Cagliostro

1967

Lotosblüten für Miss Quon

as Inspector Gonsart

1957

The Spies

as Peterson

1959

The Motorcycle Cops

as Funeral parlor spy

1986

Pirates

as Secretaire

1965

Tell Me Whom to Kill

as Teotihuacan

1963

Who Stole the Body?

as Igor, Professor Hippolyte's butler

1965

Le commissaire mène l’enquête

as The blind man (segment "Fermez votre porte")

1982

Meurtres A Domicile

as Julius Zepernick

1996

Taxandria

as First Minister

1958

Hardboiled Egg Time

as L'expert en tableaux

1986

The Passage

as La Mort

2010

Patrice Chéreau, the body at work

as Self (archive footage)

1959

Goha

as L'aveugle Ibrahim

1969

The Hand

as Le professeur

1994

1965

Lady L

as Kobeleff

1955

Frou-Frou

as Le critique en peinture (uncredited)

1955

Girl on the Third Floor

as Le barman du Montana (uncredited)

1958

Sans famille

as George, Milligan's valet

1957

La Parisienne

as Un huissier d'ambassade (uncredited)

1965

The Liquidator

as Gregory

1995

The Flying Dutchman

as Ketterjager

1988

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