Question: For You I Die is a 1947 film noir featuring a Russian-born American actor who first appeared in film in what year?

Context articles: A Double Life (1947 film)
The Lady from Shanghai
Crossfire (film)
Mischa Auer
Nora Prentiss
Rory Mallinson
For You I Die
The Devil Thumbs a Ride
My Favorite Brunette
Ride the Pink Horse

A Double Life is a 1947 film noir which tells the story of an actor whose mind becomes affected by the character he portrays.
 The movie starred Ronald Colman and Signe Hasso.
 It was directed by George Cukor and written for the screen by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin.
 Ronald Colman won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in this film.
The Lady from Shanghai is a 1947 film noir directed by Orson Welles and starring Welles, his estranged wife Rita Hayworth and Everett Sloane.
 It is based on the novel "If I Die Before I Wake" by Sherwood King.
Crossfire is a 1947 film noir drama film which deals with the theme of anti-Semitism, as did that year's Academy Award for Best Picture winner, "Gentleman's Agreement".
 The film was directed by Edward Dmytryk and the screenplay was written by John Paxton, based on the 1945 novel "The Brick Foxhole" by screenwriter and director Richard Brooks.
 The film features Robert Mitchum, Robert Young, Robert Ryan and Gloria Grahame.
 It received five Academy Award nominations, including Ryan for Best Supporting Actor and Gloria Grahame for Best Supporting Actress.
 It was the first B movie to receive a best picture nomination.
Mischa Auer (17 November 1905 – 5 March 1967) was a Russian-born American actor who moved to Hollywood in the late 1920s.
 He first appeared in film in 1928.
 Auer had a long career playing in many of the era's best known films, and he received an Academy Award nomination in 1936.
 He later moved into television and acted in films again in France and Italy well into the 1960s.
Nora Prentiss is a 1947 black-and-white drama film noir directed by Vincent Sherman, and starring Ann Sheridan, Kent Smith, Bruce Bennett and Robert Alda.
 Sherman also directed leading lady Sheridan in another 1947 film noir, "The Unfaithful".
 The cinematography is by cinematographer James Wong Howe, and the music was composed by Franz Waxman.
Rory Mallinson (October 27, 1913 – March 26, 1976) was an American actor of film and television.
 Born on October 27, 1913 in Atlanta, Georgia, Mallinson would begin his acting career after signing a contract with Warner Brothers in 1945.
 That year he would have a small role in the film, "Pride of the Marines", starring John Garfield and Eleanor Powell.
 Mallinson would continue making films through the 1940s, and throughout the 1950s, appearing in over 90 films during this period.
 Notable films in which he would perform include: a featured role in the 1947 film noir "Dark Passage", starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall; "Mighty Joe Young" (1949); the Abbott and Costello vehicle, "Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man" (1951); the 1952 western, "Springfield Rifle", starring Gary Cooper; and Howard Hawks' 1952 film, "The Big Sky", which stars Kirk Douglas, Dewey Martin, and Elizabeth Threatt.
 In the early 1950s, he also had a featured role in the film serial, "Blackhawk".
 His final performance in the film industry would be in the western, "Westbound" (1959), starring Randolph Scott and Virginia Mayo.
 During the 1960s, his career diminished, and he would only make a handful of guest appearances on several television series during the decade, including performances on "Cheyenne" and "Mannix".
 Mallinson died on March 26, 1976 in Los Angeles, California.
For You I Die is a 1947 American film noir directed by John Reinhardt and featuring Cathy Downs, Paul Langton, Mischa Auer and Roman Bohnen.
The Devil Thumbs a Ride is a 1947 film noir directed by Felix E. Feist and featuring Lawrence Tierney and Ted North.
My Favorite Brunette is a 1947 American romantic comedy film and film noir parody, directed by Elliott Nugent and starring Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour.
 Written by Edmund Beloin and Jack Rose, the film is about a baby photographer on death row in San Quentin State Prison who tells reporters his history.
 While taking care of his private-eye neighbor's office, he is asked by an irresistible baroness to find a missing baron, which initiates a series of confusing but sinister events in a gloomy mansion and a private sanatorium.
 Spoofing movie detectives and the film noir style, the film features Lon Chaney, Jr. playing Willie, a character based on his "Of Mice and Men" role Lennie; Peter Lorre as Kismet, a comic take on his many film noir roles; and cameo appearances by film noir regular Alan Ladd and Hope partner Bing Crosby.
 Sequences were filmed in San Francisco and Pebble Beach, California.
Ride the Pink Horse is a 1947 film noir crime film produced by Universal Studios.
 It was directed by the actor Robert Montgomery from a screenplay by Ben Hecht, which was based on a novel of the same name by Dorothy B. Hughes.
 The drama features Robert Montgomery, Wanda Hendrix, Andrea King, Thomas Gomez and Art Smith.
 Gomez was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance.