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Lukas was born Pál Lukács in [[Budapest]] into a Hungarian-[[Judaism|Jewish]] family,<ref name="google">{{cite book|title=Multiculturalism and the Mouse: Race and Sex in Disney Entertainment|author=Brode, D.|date=2009|publisher=University of Texas Press|isbn=978-0292783300|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E8Pj3FtAoAQC&pg=PA103|page=103|access-date=3 February 2017}}</ref><ref name="google2">{{cite journal|title=Journal of Reform Judaism|author=Central Conference of American Rabbis|journal=CCAR Journal|date=1988|volume=35|publisher=Central Conference of American Rabbis|issn=0149-712X|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9lxPAQAAIAAJ|access-date=3 February 2017}}</ref> the son of Adolf Munkácsi and Mária Schneckendorf. He was later adopted by Mária (née Zilahy) and János Lukács, an advertising executive.<ref name="google3">{{cite journal|title=Current Biography Yearbook|author=H.W. Wilson Company|journal=Current Biography Yearbook: Annual Cumulation|date=1942|publisher=H. W. Wilson Company|issn=0084-9499|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1vwZAAAAYAAJ|access-date=3 February 2017}}</ref><ref name="familysearch">{{cite web|url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-682Q-C1Q?mode=g&i=124&cc=1452460|publisher=familysearch.org|title=Marriage entry, Budapest 7th district, 26 March 1918 |access-date=3 February 2017}}</ref>
Lukas made his stage debut in Budapest in 1916, and his film debut in 1917. At first, he played elegant, smooth womanizers, but increasingly, he became typecast as a villain. He had a successful stage and film career in Hungary, Germany, and Austria, where he worked with [[Max Reinhardt]]. He arrived in Hollywood in 1927, and became a [[naturalized citizen]] of the United States in 1937. In 1935, he built a home near the new [[Racquet Club of Palm Springs]], California.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Meeks|first1=Eric G.|title=The Best Guide Ever to Palm Springs Celebrity Homes|date=2014|orig-year=2012|publisher=Horatio Limburger Oglethorpe|isbn=978-1479328598|pages=29–30, 34}}</ref>
[[File:Lukas-Watch-on-the-Rhine-1941.jpg|thumb|left|Paul Lukas starring as Kurt Mueller in the original Broadway production of [[Lillian Hellman]]'s ''[[Watch on the Rhine (play)|Watch on the Rhine]]'' (1941)]]
His major film success came in ''[[Watch on the Rhine]]'' (1943), where he played a man working against the [[Nazism|Nazis]], a role he originated in the [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] premiere of the [[Watch on the Rhine (play)|play of the same name]] in 1941.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/watch-on-the-rhine-1091 |title=''Watch on the Rhine'' |website=IBDB.com |publisher=[[Internet Broadway Database]] }}</ref> His portrayal of Kurt Mueller, a German émigré with an American wife, played by [[Bette Davis]], was universally lauded by critics. [[Brooks Atkinson]] of the ''New York Times'', wrote
In 1943,
In the 1940s, Lukas was a charter member of the [[Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals]], a conservative lobbying group opposed to possible [[The Hollywood blacklist|Communist influence in Hollywood]].
Lukas also starred as Professor Aronnax in [[Walt Disney]]'s film version of [[Jules Verne]]'s ''[[20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954 film)|20,000 Leagues Under the Sea]]'' (1954).
Lukas' film career continued into the 1960s, with nine films, including ''[[Fun in Acapulco]]'' with [[Elvis Presley]] in 1963 and ''[[Lord Jim (1965 film)|Lord Jim]]'' with [[Peter O'Toole]] in 1965. His final film, ''[[The Challenge (1970 film)|The Challenge]]'', was released in 1970.
The remainder of his career moved from Hollywood to the stage, and to television. His only singing role was as Cosmo Constantine in the original 1950 Broadway stage version of [[Irving Berlin]]'s ''[[Call Me Madam]]'', opposite [[Ethel Merman]] for over 600 performances (although he is heard singing a song in the 1933 film ''[[Little Women (1933 film)|Little Women]]'').<ref>{{Citation|title=None but the Lonely Hearts by Paul Lukas|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFQpipT_5eE|url-status=dead|language=en|access-date=2019-12-04|archive-date=14 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200414053332/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFQpipT_5eE&gl=US&hl=en}}</ref>
Lukas died 15 August 1971, in [[Tangier]], Morocco,<ref name="WVobit">Obituary ''[[Variety Obituaries|Variety]]'', August 18, 1971, p. 55.</ref> reportedly while searching for a place to spend his retirement years. He is buried in Spain.
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