Emil Heß
Emil Hess ( born February 3, 1889 in Wald ZH, † March 2, 1945 in Zurich ) was a Swiss actor.
Life
A native of the Canton of Zurich Hess had begun his career in the late summer of 1911 at German tour stages. Later he was employed for many years (until 1938 ) at the Staatstheater Stuttgart, but played just after the First World War in his native Zurich (city theater) and occurred during his few brief visits in Berlin in 1918 for the first time in front of the camera.
Only for season 1938/39, when the unassuming, balding actor accepted an offer of Berlin Comedy, Emil Hess took up residence in the German capital.
Shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War came forward again, the film with him. Between December 1939 and February 1945, Hess was an extremely well employed precious batch; he played the whole range of small roles, ranging from simple blacksmith ( in Jud Süss) and sculptors ( in The Swedish Nightingale ) over the Grand Dukes ( in The dismissal ) to the Scottish Lord ( in the Heart of the Queen ) and a king ( in The Brave tailor ). Most recently, he played multiple farmers. In one of his last films, The Kreuzlschreiber, Emil Hess received the lead role of large farmers. Mostly he played his characters with a very serious face and sometimes suspicious to look grim acting.
The approaching end of the Third Reich led the obviously politically inexperienced Swiss citizen in a highly ambiguous action. In November 1944, he stated for the record that he wanted to go on behalf of the southwest German Gestapo to Leutasch in Tyrol or in Switzerland to there - in whatever form - to work for the kingdom. How far this announcement was a outworked reason to settle out of the beleaguered military empire, is no longer to be resolved.
In fact, Emil Hess reported, who had been standing at the beginning of 1945 in the hitherto largely undamaged Würzburg ( for Gerhard Lamprecht's comrade Hedwig ) in front of the camera, on February 25, 1945 from the hard-pressed Berlin and reached under very difficult circumstances and completely exhausted, few days later to Switzerland. Immediately afterwards he died in Zurich.
From the marriage with Elisabeth Elling house from his three sons, born in Berlin. Wolfgang Hess ( born 1937 ), Urs Hess ( 1940-2013 ) and Migg Hess ( born 1943 ) are entered in the footsteps of his father and have early actuated acting (since 1946 stages in Zurich as the Schauspielhaus and the Bernhardt Theatre ). In the 1950s, she worked in some movies with. The eldest son Wolfgang is a well-known voice actor.