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Dutch postcard by M. B.& Z. (M. Bonnist & Zonen, Amsterdam), nr. 9. Photo: Loet C. Barnstijn Film. Still for Malle gevallen (1934, Jaap Speyer).

Dutch-born actor Roland Varno (1908-1996) is best known for his role as one of the schoolboys in Der blaue Engel. He appeared in more German and Dutch films of the early 1930’s and he also worked in Hollywood as a character actor, mainly in B-pictures.

Roland (sometimes Rolant) Varno was born in Utrecht. At the end of the 1920’s he went to Berlin to work in the film industry and soon he won leading parts in the films Zwischen vierzehn und siebzehn - Sexualnot der Jugend (1929, E.W. Emo) and Jugendtragodie (1929, Alfred Trotz). His next role was in the German classic Der Blaue Engel (1930, Josef van Sternberg), which made Marlene Dietrich an international star. He played one of the pupils of Emil Jannings who secretly frequent Dietrich’s sleazy shows in The Blue Angel. Varno had next another supporting role in the popular Heinz Ruhmann comedy Der Mann, der seinen Morder sucht (1931, Robert Siodmak). In the Paramount studio in Joinville in France he played in De sensatie der toekomst (1931, Victor Buchowetzki, Jack Salvatori) a Dutch version of the French production Magie Moderne (1931, Dimitri Buchowetzki). He starred with Lien Deyers and Dolly Bouwmeester in this SF detective film about the new phenomenon television - the 'sensation of the future'. After this early Dutch sound film he traveled to Hollywood where he found only bit roles in films like Arsene Lupin (1932, Jack Conway) and the Greta Garbo vehicle As You Desire Me (1932, George Fitzmaurice). Varno returned to the Netherlands in 1934 to appear as a girl-shy soldier in the comedy Het meisje met den blauwen hoed (1934, Rudolph Meinert), co-starring with Truus van Aalten and Lou Bandy. Next he starred in another Dutch comedy Malle gevallen (1934, Jaap Speyer) with Enny Meunier, Louis Borel and Johan Kaart.

Roland Varno returned to Hollywood but for years he only found bit roles, often uncredited. He played a spy in s short film by Fred Zinnemann, While America Sleeps (1939). More supporting roles followed in the Nelson Eddy musical Balalaika (1939, Reinhold Schunzel), the war drama Mystery Sea Raider (1940, Edward Dmytryk), another war drama Underground (1941, Vincent Sherman) and the western Valley of Hunted Men (1942, John English). He had his first major screen credit in The Return of the Vampire (1944, Lew Landers), starring Bela Lugosi and Nina Foch. Varno was fluent in several languages and during WW II, he was placed in the Office of Strategic Services and appeared in several propaganda movies, including The Unwritten Code (1944, Herman Rotsten). In this offbeat, better-than-average war drama Ann Savage and Tom Neal were top-billed, but Varno was the central character. He played a Nazi spy who sneaks into the U.S.A., hoping to release hundreds of German prisoners. Other career highlights were the wartime drama Hostages (1943, Frank Tuttle) with Luise Rainer and William Bendix and the film noir My Name Is Julia Ross (1945, Joseph H. Lewis) starring Nina Foch. His linguistic versatility came in handy after the war and made him a popular radio performer in radio programs across the country. In the 1950’s he was also often seen as a guest actor in tv series. He made his last movie appearance in Istanbul (1957, Joseph Pevney) starring Errol Flynn and Cornell Borchers. Several years into his retirement, Varno's language skills again came in handy on the set of the highly touted miniseries War and Remembrance (1988). He died in 1996 in Lancaster, California. His son is the Emmy nominated sound editor Martin Varno.

Sources: Sandra Brennan (All Movie Guide), Wikipedia and IMDb.

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