My father was an ardent socialist for many years.

The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre.

Directors and producers were afraid of a Dumont actor while at the same time they admired him.

I was put in the Air Corps. I was never educated to serve in the military, but soon my activities in the American Air Corps became very interesting to me.

In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of meat in it, in the evening we had a very thin meat soup with some potatoes in it.

1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various honors mean a great deal to me, most of all for the reason that they would mean a great deal to my parents too.

To be a Dumont actor was considered to be a great honor for an actor, yet it also had its disadvantages.