- Died in Tangier, Morocco, while searching for a place to spend his retirement years.
- Became a U. S. Citizen in 1933 and won the Academy Award 1943 for Watch on the Rhine (1943).
- On August 29, 2019, he was honored with a day of his film work during the Turner Classic Movies Summer Under the Stars.
- Gossip columnist Sheilah Graham reported in 1941 that he was an extremely serious tennis player. During a game of doubles with Charles Butterworth, Lukas reportedly asked bystanders to stop talking because their chatter was very "dis-attracting".
- Sings Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's song "None But the Lonely Heart" (English title) in Little Women (1933).
- He appeared in three Best Picture Oscar nominees: Little Women (1933), Dodsworth (1936) and Watch on the Rhine (1943).
- His cousin, Edwin J. Lucas, was the second husband of Betty Field.
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