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Oskar Werner: Life
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Universally regarded as one of Western Europe's foremost stage actors, Oskar Werner was 18 years old when he made his stage bow at the Burgtheater in his native Vienna. A lifelong pacifist, Werner did everything he could to avoid conscription in the Axis army during World War II; when he finally was forced into a uniform, he deserted at the earliest opportunity.
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Three friends (from left, Henri Serre, Oskar Werner and Jeanne Moreau) share life and love in "Jules and Jim." The film's style came as a revelation in 1962, as director Francois Truffaut skips lightly through the material, covering 25 years while never seeming to linger.
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Having achieved the status of an international film star, Werner ... made only a few more films—Interlude, The Shoes of the Fisherman, and Voyage of the Damned—none of them especially interesting or really worthy of his talents. He also appeared in an episode of Columbo. He is reputed to have turned down more than 200 film parts. The increasing rarity of his film (and, for that matter, theater) performances can perhaps partly be ascribed to his frequent quarrels with film and stage directors, and to the fact that in the last ten years of his life, plagued by alcoholism, he lived the life of a virtual recluse.
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