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Daniel Emilfork Berenstein (April 7, 1924 San Felipe, Chile – October 17, 2006 Paris, France) was a French stage and film actor of Jewish descent. Emilfork was born in San Felipe, Chile after his Jewish socialist parents from Kiev fled a pogrom in Odessa. At age 25, he left Chile and settled in France, because, according to his friend Alejandro Jodorowsky, he didn`t feel comfortable being a homosexual man in Chile.

Emilfork`s face was out of the norm and had made him a choice character actor for films such as The City of Lost Children (1995). He specialized in roles of villains. Previously he had played in The Devil`s Nightmare (1971) and Fellini`s Casanova (1976), in Roman Polanski`s Pirates (1986) and in Taxandria (1994). Emilfork`s voice and accent when speaking French were extremely striking and unique.