Clemens Hasse

Clemens Hasse ( born April 13, 1908 in Königsberg, † July 28, 1959 in New York City, USA ) was a German actor and voice actor.

Career

The son of a government official attended two years of drama school of the Prussian State Theatre in Berlin. From the season 1929/30 he was after his debut as Edler von Henstedt in Cathy of Heilbronn to the ensemble of the Staatstheater. There Hasse played up to the war-related closure in 1944.

His first film he made in 1932 with Yes, true love is the soldiers. He later played in The man who Sherlock Holmes was on the side of Heinz Riihmann. With him he turned 1944 Feuerzangenbowle, in which he played the student Rudi Knebel who participates each student prank Rühmanns. His roles were usually small, Hasse embodied mainly good buddies, on which you can rely on, so the Maschinenmaat Sunday in submarines west! .

He also worked extensively in the synchronization and lent his voice internationally known fellow actors as Eddie Albert ( The Roots of Heaven ), Lou Costello ( inter alia, in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein ), José Ferrer ( Purgatory ), Oliver Hardy ( Erstsynchronfassung horrors of the company, the dancing Master ) and Sidney James ( Maxie makes a career ) as well as the White Rabbit in the German version of Disney's Alice in Wonderland.

After the war, Hasse played in 1947 at Castle Park Theatre and from 1951 also at the Schiller Theater. He joined now only sporadically in postwar cinema, as in The Captain and his hero (1956 ) or in Riihmann film The man who could not say no (1958). Clemens Hasse, who was married to actress Ursula thistle, died on July 28, 1959 in New York, where he stayed for the wedding of his daughter, of a heart attack. He was buried in the cemetery in Berlin Dahlem.

Filmography (selection)

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