 He appeared at the Raimund Theater, and supplemented his income by working as an entertainer in a bar.In 1939, he followed his fiancée and later wife, Jewish actress Lieselotte Goettinger (best known in the UK for playing the concentration camp guard in the war films, "Odette" and "Carve Her Name With Pride"), into exile in London.There he took part in propaganda broadcasts against the Nazis on the BBC.