From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Paul Henreid (10 January 1908 – 29 March 1992), whose birthname was Paul Georg Julius Hernreid Ritter von Wassel-Waldingau, was an Austrian actor and film director. Henreid's best remembered role is as Victor Laszlo in Casablanca (1942). Description above from the Wikipedia article Paul Henreid, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.