member of the Burgtheater. At the National Theatre Deutsch appeared in The Helpers of God, about Red Cross founder Henri Dunant, in 1948. Three years later he moved back to Berlin, appearing at the Schiller and Schlossparktheater. Deutsch also toured in Germany and abroad. Deutsch's film roles included Baron Kurtz in Carol Reed's film noir, The Third Man, starring Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten. He received the Volpi Cup as Best Actor at the 9th Venice International Film Festival in 1948 Venice Film Festival for his performance in Der Prozeß. Deutsch's performances in the title role of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Nathan the Wise and as Shylock in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice were critically praised. He played Nathan for more than 2,000 performances, and traveled with productions throughout Europe. Deutsch died on 22 March 1969 in Berlin, and is buried in the Jewish cemetery on the Berlin highway. For the fourth anniversary of his death in 1973, Friedrich Schütter's former Junges Theater in the Uhlenhorst quarter of Hamburg was renamed after Deutsch (who had staged a performance of Nathan The Wise there shortly before his death). Filmography Die Rache der Toten (1916) – Schreiber, Ferenc Die zweite Frau (1917) – Jesuit Apokalypse (1918) Pique Dame (1918) – Graf St-. Germain Irrungen (1919) – Franz, Arbeiter The Geisha and the Samurai (1919) Die Frau im Käfig (1919) Blonde Poison (1919) – Rolf Röm (Enkel) The Galley Slave (2 parts) (1919) – Galeerensträfling Fluch der Vergangenheit (1919) Vom Schicksal erdrosselt (1919) – Ernst Dutton Die Tochter des Henkers (1919) The Monastery of Sendomir (1919) Aladdin und die Wunderlampe (1919) Hate (1920) From Morn to Midnight (1920) – Kassierer Monika Vogelsang (1920) – Johannes Walterspiel Gerechtigkeit (1920) Blackmailed (1920) The Hunt for Death (1920) The Golem: How He Came into the World (1920) – Der Rabbi Famulus Judith Trachtenberg (1920) – Judith's Brother Fiebernächte (1920) Ferreol (1920) Der gelbe Tod (2 parts) (1920) The Women House of Brescia (1920) Hannerl and Her Lovers (1921) – Priester Burning Country (1921) – Vikar Benedikt Lady Godiva (1921) Die Dame und der Landstreicher (1922) Duke Ferrante's End (1922) – Orlando Sein ist das Gericht (1922) Liebe kann man nicht kaufen (1922) Der Kampf ums Ich (1922) Der alte Gospodar (1922) – Zdenko & Wolfgan The Pagoda (1923) The Burning Secret (1923) The Ancient Law (1923) – Baruch, sein Sohn Debit and Credit (1924) – Bernhard Dagfin