Harold Dyrenforth

Harald Dyrenforth started his career as an actor in the late thirties in the Swiss theatre and radio came to America in 1938 appeared in a number of Broadway plays and New York radio shows served a hitch in the US Army Ski Troops and another one as a foreign language broadcaster for the Office of War Information and voice of America of the US State Department In 1946 he made his movie debut in a featured part that of Walter Damrosch in the film Carnegie Hall He appeared in over 40 pictures and 500 TV shows He earned a Masters Degree in Theater Arts at UCLA and taught at Chapman College in Orange CA while working as an actor and director In 1961 he directed the Madwoman of Chaillot at Long Beach State College