Martin Kosleck (March 24, 1904 (Barkotzen, Germany) – January 15, 1994 (Santa Monica, California)) was a German character actor of Russian descent who would appear in several American films and television shows, playing mostly Nazis, including five times playing Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi Propaganda Minister. Kosleck would begin his acting on the pre-war Berlin stage, working for Max Reinhardt. Because of his anti-Nazi views, he would leave Germany in the early 1930s, just ahead of a Gestapo death squad, later learning that he was tried in absentia and sentenced to death. He would move first to Britain, then to the U.S., where he would first work on the stage before receiving, because of his icy demeanor and piercing stare which would help to epitomize on screen the kind of blind obedience