Willy Eichberger aka Carl Esmond ~ This card is from the 1937 series Bunte Filmbilder. It measures about 1¼" x 2¼" and has a great photo of Carl Esmond! This is an original cigarette card issued as #451 of the series. Given that it is over 70 years old it is in excellent condition. Please study my scan!

Austrian actor Willy Eichberger, fled Hitler's Europe and became character actor Carl Esmond in dozens of American films from the 1930s through the 1970s. He initially studied drama in Vienna at the State Academy of Dramatic Arts and started his film career in 1933 in the German film Kaiserwalzer. He developed into a matinee idol in both Germany and Austria before moving first to London and then to the United States. For a brief period, he also used the name Charles Esmond. Making his English speaking debut in the classic The Prisoner of Zenda (1937), Esmond went on to appear opposite Errol Flynn in The Dawn Patrol (1938), Gary Cooper in both Sergeant York (1941) and The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944), Ray Milland in Ministry of Fear (1944), Susan Hayward in Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (1947) and Gregory Peck in The World in His Arms (1952).