Jack L. Warner wanted to leave no doubt as to his opinion of the morals of the Nazis. He played a German alpine officer in Chetniks! The Fighting Guerrillas, a wartime movie on German-occupied Yugoslavia by Twentieth Century-Fox. In Hitler's Madman, he portrayed a sergeant. Later, Arco appeared in Warner Bros's controversial film Mission to Moscow, starring Walter Huston. Arco played another Nazi in Hostages. In The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler, Arco portrayed a Gestapo officer. Arco again played a Nazi in The Cross of Lorraine. In The Song of Bernadette, Arco got to get away from the Nazi image by portraying a Franciscan friar. He also had a small role as a German submarine commander in another Humphrey Bogart movie, Action in the North Atlantic. Arco's roles started to diminish as the war came to a close. In 1945, he appeared in only one film, as a German colonel in the war drama Counter-Attack. Later career After the Second World War ended in 1945, Arco returned to Europe. In 1949, he was working in West Germany and filmed Duel with Death where he used his birth name Lutz Altschul. He would only appear in three more films after this. He did Straße zur Heimat in Austria in 1952 and later played Herr Dörfl in Question 7 in West Germany in 1961. Arco's last film was done in Switzerland, a Swiss melodrama/documentary on abortion called The Doctor Speaks Out in 1966. In 1972, while in his 70s, Arco appeared in a television episode of Kung Fu starring David Carradine. Death Arco died at age 75, not in Casablanca, as his character stated in the movie, but in Zürich, Switzerland. Selected filmography Die Teppichknüpferin von Bagdad (1925) Spiel mit Menschen (1922) The Love of a Queen (1923) Die Liebe einer Königin (1923) Fire of Love (1925) – Johannes Hellmer, Maler Sacco und Vanzetti (1927) – Sacco Napoleon at Saint Helena (1929) – Graf Montholon Love's Carnival (1930) – Peter von Remberg – Oberleutnant The Forester's Daughter (1931) – Österreichischer Offizier Yorck (1931) The Black Hussar (1932) Nurse Edith Cavell (1939) – Private Rammler Nick Carter, Master Detective (1939) – Yacht Captain (uncredited) Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940) – Dr. Bertheim (uncredited) Underground (1941) – Otto All Through the Night (1942) – Shortwave Radio Man (uncredited) Pacific Rendezvous (1942) – Assistant (uncredited) Berlin Correspondent (1942) – Censor (uncredited) Desperate Journey (1942)