Daniel Emilfork
Actor
Born April 7, 1924 in Providencia, Santiago, Metropolitan Region, Chile
Daniel Emilfork Berenstein (April 7, 1924 – October 17, 2006) was a Chilean stage and film actor. Emilfork was born in Providencia, Chile after his Jewish socialist parents from Kiev fled a pogrom in Odessa. At age 25, he left Chile and settled in France, because, according to his friend Alejandro Jodorowsky, he didn't feel comfortable being a homosexual man in Chile. Emilfork's face was out of the norm and had made him a choice character actor for films such as The City of Lost Children (1995). He specialized in roles of villains. Previously he had played in The Devil's Nightmare (1971), Travels with My Aunt (1972) and Fellini's Casanova (1976), in Roman Polanski's Pirates (1986) and in Taxandria (1994). He carried on acting up until his death, his last film appearing in 2007. Emilfork's voice and accent when speaking French was extremely striking and unique. He died in Paris, France.
Filmography
Patrice Chéreau, the body at work
Self (archive footage)
The Accursed Kings
Maître Martin
Taxandria
First Minister
The City of Lost Children
Krank
The Flying Dutchman
Ketterjager
Lou Didn’t Say No
(voice)
The First Circle
Nikol
Halloween Monster Bash
Satan (archive footage)
The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober
Rector
La Fée Carabine
Stojil
The Passage
La Mort
Pirates
Secretaire
The Beautiful Prisoner
Inspector Francis
The Apartment Murders
Julius Zepernick
Quarter to Two Before Jesus Christ
Tatouius
Subversion
Cagliostro
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
Saint-Juste
The Thief of Baghdad
Genie
Fellini's Casanova
Marquis Du Bois
Chéri-Bibi
Le Kanak
Travels with My Aunt
Colonel Hakim
Midi trente
Self
Kill!
Mejid
The Devil's Nightmare
Satan
Noon and Midnight
Marquis Robert Lorrain
The Hand
Le professeur
Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre
Pietro
The Unknown Man of Shandigor
Von Krantz
Lotosblüten für Miss Quon
Inspector Gonsart
Trans-Europ-Express
le policier
Lady L
Kobeleff
Tell Me Whom to Kill
Teotihuacan
The Liquidator
Gregory
L'Or du duc
Guardian
Le commissaire mène l’enquête
The blind man (segment "Fermez votre porte")
What's New Pussycat?
Gas Station Man
Mission to Venice
Jeff Gordon, Secret Agent
Yanakos
L'assassin viendra ce soir
Leader of the undertaker gang
Nutty, Naughty Chateau
Gunther
OSS 117 Is Unleashed
Sacha
Ballad for a Hoodlum
Donacil
Seul... à corps perdu
Manservant
Who Stole the Body?
Igor, Professor Hippolyte's butler
The Doll
'Gant de Crin', the assassin
Midnight Meeting
Le joueur de baccara
The Triumph of Michael Strogoff
Ben Routh
Danger in the Middle East
Pantalaskas
The baron
Riff Raff Girls
Luigi le Napolitain
Goha
L'aveugle Ibrahim
The Motorcycle Cops
Funeral parlor spy
Hardboiled Egg Time
L'expert en tableaux
Sans famille
George, Milligan's valet
La Parisienne
Un huissier d'ambassade (uncredited)
The Spies
Peterson
No Sun in Venice
Girl on the Third Floor
Le barman du Montana (uncredited)
Frou-Frou
Le critique en peinture (uncredited)
School for Love
Violin teacher
Tower of Lust