- His acting career as a leading man ended with the coming of sound.
- First man to parachute off the Eiffel Tower.
- Favorite star of Queen Mary.
- Died in a Hollywood restaurant.
- Brother of actor/make-up artist Sam Polo.
- Uncle of Edward Polo
- Became a movie stuntman in 1913.
- One of his first jobs was as a circus acrobat.
- Father of Malvina Polo.
- Profiled in "Serial Film Stars: A Biographical Dictionary, 1912-1956 (2 Volume Set)" by Buck Rainey (2005).
- After his acting career ended in the mid-1940s he worked as a makeup artist.
- He was an Austrian-American actor of the silent era.
- Beginning in 1913, he appeared in serials and films in the United States and became an action star in Germany in the late 1920s.
- He was of Jewish descent.
- With his brother Sam he was the trapeze act The Flying Cordovas.
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