Paul Hubschmid was a Swiss actor who starred as Johnny Vulcan alongside Michael Caine in the 1966 film Funeral in Berlin. He worked in Hollywood between 1948 and 1953 under the name Paul Christian. Trained as an actor in Vienna, his movie debut was in the 1938 Swiss production Fusilier Wipf. During World War II he appeared in German films such as Meine Freundin Josefine and Love Letters.