Hans Holt

Hans Holt ( born November 22, 1909 in Vienna as Karl Johann Hödl; † August 3, 2001 in Baden bei Wien ) was an Austrian actor.

Life

The son of the master glazier Hödl Karl and his wife Paula born Schmider visited the Federal Junior High School on the Danube Canal in his hometown. He graduated from the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna in 1930 and debuted at the National Theatre. After two years he transferred to the Municipal Theater Reichenberg in Bohemia. He then played well at Vienna's Burgtheater and in Zurich and Berlin. The Theater in der Josefstadt, he belonged to more than forty years.

A few years after his acting debut in 1935 he discovered for the film, his first two roles he was playing this year as Karl Hödl in two emigrants productions. There his role subject was the handsome young man who conquered the female audience with likeable good nature. Among his best known films of this period include Confetti (1936 ), Lumpacivagabundus (1936 ), Final - The troubled girls (1938 ), The Disgust (1939) and Immortal Waltz ( 1939). By the end of the war was followed by other popular entertainment films like The postmaster (1940 ), Rosen in Tirol ( 1940), Whom the gods love ( 1942), Schrammeln ( 1944) and of money into the house / The Millionaire (1945 ).

On the side of Paula Wessely, Attila and Paul Hörbiger and Hans Moser Hans Holt played in a total of more than eighty home movies and comedies. Even as over forty years old, he mimed still often the enamored young man. His most famous role was that of Baron von Trapp in the home films The Trapp Family (1956) and The Trapp Family in America ( 1958). This he managed the transition into the compartment of the father and husband.

In addition to his film roles, he also appeared in plays by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Arthur Schnitzler and Franz Molnar. Except at the Theater in der Josefstadt, he participated in guest performance tours at other theaters. He also wrote several plays itself. One of his last major stage roles was the "Heavenly Konzipist " in Molnár's Liliom at the Berndorfer Festival under the direction of Felix Dvorak. In Vanillikipferln he played his last role on the stage. In this play by Lotte Ingrisch he played the old town planner.

In later years he was especially television actor. In 1973, he starred in 13 episodes on the side of Marika Rokk in the family series The Beautiful Gruber. In the early 1980s played Hans Holt in the television series I'm marrying a family and in every Saturday broadcast ORF impromptu game series The beloved family. 1985-1989 he worked as Franz on the side of Alfred Böhm in the 26 episodes long series The Leihopa with.

One of his peculiarities was a muffled and slightly nasal Kammerspielton. In earlier film roles he often gave vocal performances. Hans Holt was married to the former script girl Renate Bremen since 1936. The only daughter died in 1945 at the age of two years. His grave site is located on the Neustift cemetery.

Awards

Filmography

Plays

  • It is once (premiered November 19, 1949 in the theater in the Josefstadt )
  • The fence (premiered March 1, 1951 at the Theater in der Josefstadt )
  • The Heart Specialist (premiered October 27, 1956 at the Deutsches Theater Göttingen)
  • The bad mother (premiered November 18, 1959 in the theater in the Josefstadt )
  • The Dream Dancer (premiered July 26, 1973 at the Theater in der Josefstadt )
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