"ethnic" types.  His most memorable roles were in Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939), with Edward G Robinson and George Sanders ; Ernst Lubitsch's hilarious To Be or Not To Be (1942), with Jack Benny and Carole Lombard ; Douglas Sirk's romantic melodrama, Magnificent Obsession (1954); with Rock Hudson and Jane Wyman; and Jungle Gents (1954), a Bowery Boys comedy