Ferdinand Onno was born on October 19, 1881 in Czernowitz, Bukovina, Austria-Hungary [now Chernivtsi, Ukraine] as Ferdinand Onowotschek. He was an actor, known for Der Narr seines Herzens (1919), Der Mann, der das Lachen verlernte (1922) and Der Rebell (1919). He died on August 18, 1969 in Vienna, Austria.