- Ardently anti-Nazi, Von Twardowski often portrayed Nazis on screen.
- For a time he was one of Marlene Dietrich's close friends; their relationship suffered a falling-out after their arrival in Hollywood. The frequently out-of-work Twardowski once wrote a letter to Dietrich (circa 1934), begging for a loan of $42 to cover basic expenses.
- Became a citizen of the United States in 1939.
- Emigrated to the United States, landing at New York on 14 December 1930.
- Twardowski, a homosexual, fled Germany in 1933 to escape the Nazi regime.
- Career encompassed the legitimate theater, motion pictures, radio and television.
- Actor, stage director and playwright.
- Although in 1919 Hans Heinrich von Twardowski entered the film business and he appeared in his first silent movie "Unheimliche Geschichten" (19). In the 20s he became a demanded film actor in numerous well-known productions.
- Twardowski died of a heart attack in his New York City apartment at age 60.
- The acting became his real passion and he made his stage debut in 1919 at the Lessingtheater in Berlin. He continued his theater career successfully in the next years.
- His film career ended after the war and he concentrated to the theater again. Only in the episode of the serial "Robert Montgomery Presents: The Sheffield Story" (1952) he had a last appearance in front of the camera.
- His last cinematical works in Germany came at the beginning of the 30s. Finally he went to the USA where he continued his film and stage career.
- The actor Hans Heinrich von Twardowski began his career as an author and he wrote essays like "Der rasende Pegasus".
- In 1939, he wrote and produced a play in Brooklyn's St. Felix Street Playhouse called Shakespeare Merchant - 1939, based on Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.
- In the 1930s, Twardowski directed and appeared in the stage productions of The Brothers Karamazov and Old Heidelberg in the Pasadena Playhouse.
- Twardowski also sang tenor in a number of musicals.
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