Sydney Greenstreet — English Actor born on December 27, 1879, died on January 18, 1954

Sydney Hughes Greenstreet was a British-born American actor who did not work in films until the age of 62, but enjoyed a run of notable hits in a Hollywood career lasting just eight years. He is best remembered for his Warner Bros. films with Humphrey Bogart and Peter Lorre, which include The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, and Passage to Marseille. He became a naturalised United States citizen in 1925. He portrayed Nero Wolfe on radio from 1950-51... (wikipedia)

Pictures are much harder to do than the theater... You're at the mercy of the camera angles and the piecemeal technique.
The lens is the actor's best critic... showing his mind more clearly than on the stage. You can get wonderful cooperation out of the lens if you are true, but God help you if you are not.