Career Theatre Īfter studying at Theodora Irvine's Studio of the Theatre, Wilde began appearing in plays in stock and in New York. As a result, most publicity records and subsequent sources wrongly indicate a 1915 birth for Wilde.

In preparation for an acting career, he and his new wife Marjory Heinzen (later to be known as Patricia Knight) shaved years off their ages, three for him and five for her. He qualified for the United States fencing team for the 1936 Summer Olympic Games, but quit the team before the games in order to take a role in the theater. He won the National Novice Foils Championship held at the New York Athletic Club in 1929. He fenced for the Columbia Lions fencing team. Wilde entered Columbia University, class of 1933, as one of the youngest undergraduates. Wilde attended the City College of New York as a pre-med student, completing the four-year course in three years and winning a scholarship to the Physicians and Surgeons College at Columbia University. Ī talented linguist and an astute mimic, he had an ear for languages which became apparent later in his acting career. He was named for his paternal grandfather, and upon arrival in the United States at the age of seven in 1920, his name was Anglicized to Cornelius Louis Wilde. His Hungarian Jewish parents were Vojtech Béla Weisz (anglicized to Louis Bela Wilde) and Renée Mary Vid (Rayna Miryam).

Wilde was born in 1912 in Privigye, Kingdom of Hungary (now Prievidza, Slovakia), although his year and place of birth are usually and inaccurately given as 1915 in New York City. He also went into songwriting during his career. In the 1950s he moved to writing, producing and directing films, and still continued his career as an actor. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in 1945's A Song to Remember. By the 1940s he had signed a contract with 20th Century Fox, and by the mid-1940s he was a major leading man. In 1936 he began making small, uncredited appearances in films. Wilde's acting career began in 1935, when he made his debut on Broadway. Cornel Wilde (born Kornél Lajos Weisz Octo– October 16, 1989) was a Hungarian-American actor and filmmaker.

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