Edward Raquello

Edward Raquello
Lobby card from South of Panama (1928) with Edward Raquello at left
Born	Edward Zylberberg Kucharski 14 May 1900 Warsaw
Died	24 August 1976 New York City
Citizenship	Poland, United States
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1927–1940 (film); 1951 (television)

Edward Raquello (born Edward Zylberberg Kucharski; 14 May 1900 – 24 August 1976) was a Polish-American actor of stage and screen.

Raquello immigrated to the United States in March 1926. Although from Eastern Europe, he specialized in playing Latin Lover roles in Hollywood. He also performed frequently on the stage. For instance, in 1931, he was in the cast of Wonder Bar, headlined by Al Jolson. In 1932, he was in New York to Cherbourg at the Forrest Theatre, New York City. In 1933, he appeared with Rose Hobart and Humphrey Bogart at the Booth Theatre in the comedy, Our Wife. In June 1934, he co-starred with Betty Bronson in Genius in Love at the Elverhoj Theatre in Kingston, New York. In January 1935, he starred as Al Pomo, Public Enemy Number One, in Nowhere Bound, a melodrama about undesirable aliens on board a deportation train; written by Leo Birinski, it was presented at the Imperial Theatre in New York City. In 1936 and 1937, he was in the original production of Idiot's Delight with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. In 1941, he was in the touring company of There Shall Be No Night, in a cast headed by Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. Following the end of the Second World War and through the 1960s, he was a program director and executive producer at the Voice of America radio for the United States Information Agency.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1927	The Girl from Rio	Raoul the dancer
1928	South of Panama	Emilio Cervantes
1937	Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo	Paul Savarin
1938	The Patient in Room 18	Dr. Fred Harker
	The Last Express	Paul Zarinka
	Torchy Gets Her Man	Henchman Gonzales	Uncredited
	Western Jamboree	Don Carlos
1939	Idiot's Delight	Chiari	Uncredited
	Missing Daughters	Lucky Rogers
	The Girl from Mexico	Tony Romano
	The Girl and the Gambler	Rodolfo Ramos
1940	Calling Philo Vance	Eduardo Grassi

Bibliography

• Hanke, Ken. Charlie Chan at the Movies: History, Filmography, and Criticism. McFarland, 1990.

External links

• Edward Raquello at IMDb