Jean Hersholt

Jean Pierre Carl Buron (12 July 1886 – 2 June 1956), known professionally as Jean Hersholt, was a Danish-American actor and director. He was best known for starring on the radio series Dr. Christian from 1937 to 1942 and in the movie Heidi (1937).Obituary Variety, 6 June 1943, p. 63. He was born in Copenhagen. 

The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, an award given out by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, is named after him.

He told The Literary Digest how to pronounce his last name, "In English, her'sholt; in Danish, hairs'hult." 

Hersholt died on 2 June 1956 in Hollywood, California of pancreatic cancer, aged 69.

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