Movie Star Mystery Photo

Los Angeles Times file photo

Update: Paul Lukas in a 1927 photo.

Update: As many people guessed, this is Paul Lukas. Above, Lukas' obituary, Aug. 17, 1971.

Just a reminder on how this works: I post the mystery photo on Monday and reveal the answer on Friday ... or on Saturday if I have a hard time picking only five pictures -- sometimes it's difficult to choose. To keep the mystery photo from getting lost in the other entries, I move it from Monday to Tuesday to Wednesday, etc., adding a photo every day.

I have to approve all comments, so if your guess is posted immediately, that means you're wrong. (And if a wrong guess has already been submitted by someone else, there's no point in submitting it again.) If you're right, you will have to wait until Friday. There's no need to submit your guess five times. Once is enough. The only prize is bragging rights.

The answer to last week's mystery star: Trixie Friganza!

Los Angeles Times file photo

Lukas in "Little Women."

Here's another picture of our mystery guest. Please congratulate "Laura" fan Waldo Lydecker, who correctly identified him.

Photograph by the Los Angeles Times

Lukas and Deputy Dist. Atty. Percy Hammon discuss the conspiracy trial of Vilma Aknay and Sari Fedak over a lawsuit against playwright Ernest Vajda.

Here's another photo of our mystery star with a mystery companion! Please congratulate Alexa Foreman, Elsie, Carmen, Claire Lockhart, Joan Myers, Zooey, Nick Santa Maria, Bob Birchard, Lee Ann Bailey and Paul Cardinal for recognizing him!

Los Angeles Times file photo

Update: Lukas greets Thomas Mann and his wife at Warner Bros., Oct. 5, 1943.

Many people have identified our mystery guest, including Eve Golden, Michael Ryerson and Tony Lucia. Who are his mystery companions?

Los Angeles Times file photo

Lukas in a photo published Aug. 16, 1971.

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Paul Lucas

Posted by: Rosalyn | May 27, 2009 at 09:37 AM

Paul Lukas.

Posted by: Mary Mallory | May 27, 2009 at 09:37 AM

Walter Pidgeon?

Posted by: Sheila | May 27, 2009 at 09:44 AM

Paul Lukas?

Posted by: Donna Hill | May 27, 2009 at 09:59 AM

Larry: just got back to work today. Paul Lukas Best, Mike Hawks

Posted by: Mike Hawks | May 27, 2009 at 10:05 AM

Richard Price? David Niven?

Posted by: Eliza | May 27, 2009 at 10:21 AM

oooh oooh oooh, is it Conrad Nagel?

Posted by: juile | May 27, 2009 at 10:27 AM

Posted by: Eve | May 27, 2009 at 10:43 AM

The second photo is from LITTLE WOMEN (1933). Was the first photo from one of his Hungarian productions?

Posted by: Mary Mallory | May 27, 2009 at 11:24 AM

Well, I think Paul Lukas.

Posted by: MichaelRyerson | May 27, 2009 at 11:29 AM

Paul Lukas

Posted by: Nancy Benedict | May 27, 2009 at 11:56 AM

Edwin Carewe

Posted by: annie frye | May 27, 2009 at 12:50 PM

Ronald Coleman

Posted by: Ted | May 27, 2009 at 02:28 PM

Posted by: Tony Lucia | May 27, 2009 at 03:10 PM

Posted by: Tony Lucia | May 27, 2009 at 03:12 PM

I think this photo might be from his Hungary days. He wears a costume very similar to the first photo in the film THE WOMAN FROM MOSCOW (Paramount, 1928), but his character doesn't have a mustache and it looks like he has brown hair not blond.

Posted by: Mary Mallory | May 27, 2009 at 04:24 PM

Warren William

Posted by: Cinnamon Carter | May 28, 2009 at 01:37 AM

paul lukas

Posted by: herb nichols | May 28, 2009 at 09:59 AM

Mystery companions?
Wild guess - Stage and Movie Director of "Watch on the Rhine," Herman Shumlin and wife.
Earlier mystery companion with glasses - Sinclair Lewis, writer of "Dodsworth". This is fun!

Posted by: Carmen | May 28, 2009 at 10:00 AM

It's Robert Elliott

Posted by: Sue | May 28, 2009 at 10:19 AM

how 'bout Paul Lukas then?

Posted by: juile | May 28, 2009 at 10:38 AM

Paul Lukas is the mystery photo, I believe, and Roland Young is one of his companions (I think)

Posted by: annie frye | May 28, 2009 at 11:31 AM

Still can't figure out our Mystery Man! But his male companion looks like Leo G. Carroll.

Posted by: Patricia van Hartesveldt | May 28, 2009 at 01:06 PM

Tom Conway

Posted by: Dru Duniway | May 28, 2009 at 01:27 PM

Brian Aherne.