milestones

Year
Milestone
1931 
Worked as a designer and translator for a publishing company in Vienna
1933 
Discovered by Otto Preminger (Max Reinhardt's managing director) who introduced him to Reinhardt
 
Became leading man with Max Reinhardt's Vienna theatre
 
Appeared on the Viennese stage in "Men in White" and "Mizzi" and in Austrian films (date approximate)
1934 
Screen acting debut in "Hohe Schule"
1934 
Was officially listed by Germany as a "minorities sympathizer" and an "enemy of the Third Reich" after he turned down a film contract with Germany's UFA film studio
1935 
Moved to England
 
Performed on London stage as Prince Albert in "Victoria Regina" (1937) and "The Jersey Lily" (1940)
1937 
British screen debut in bit part in "Victoria the Great"
1938 
Wife's family fled Vienna
1939 
British film acting debut, "Goodbye, Mr. Chips"
1940 
Moved to US
1940 
Repeated his role in "Victoria Regina" on radio opposite Helen Hayes before making his US stage debut
1940 
Broadway debut in "Flight to the West"
1941 
Signed by RKO Radio Pictures
1942 
US screen debut in "Joan of Paris"
1947 
Founded Banner Films (with Jack Chertok)
1948 
Produced first film (also starred), "Hollow Triumph"
1951 
Film directing debut with "For Men Only/The Tall Lie"
1953 
TV acting debut, "The Jewel" on "Ford Theater"
 
Blacklisted as an actor after going to Washington with a group of Hollywood stars to protest the HUAC's Hollywood witchhunt during the early 1950s
 
Became a TV director for Revue Productions, Desilu, 4-Star and Screen Gems among other companies in the early 1950s
1972 
Starred in Broadway production and US tour of "Don Juan in Hell"
1977 
Final screen performance in John Boorman's "Exorcist II: The Heretic"
1992 
"Casablanca" re-released on April 10, its 50th anniversary one week after Henreid's death
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