Clemens Hasse

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

Career

The son of an administrative officer attended the drama school of the Prussian State Theater in Berlin for two years . From the 1929/30 season onwards, after his debut as Edler von Henstedt in Das Käthchen von Heilbronn, he was part of the State Theater's ensemble . Hasse played there until the war-related closure in 1944.

He made his first film in 1932 with Yes, true is the soldier's love . He later played in The Man, who was Sherlock Holmes at the side of Heinz Rühmann . He also shot Die Feuerzangenbowle with him in 1944 , in which he played the student Rudi Knebel, who took part in every student trick by Rühmann. His roles were mostly small, Hasse primarily embodied good buddies who can be relied on, like machine mate Sonntag in U-Boats westward! .

In addition, he worked extensively in the dubbing and lent his voice to internationally known fellow actors such as Eddie Albert ( The Roots of Heaven ), Lou Costello (among others in Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein ), José Ferrer ( Purgatory ), Oliver Hardy (first dub version of Schreck der Firma , Die Tanzmeister ) 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 at the Schlossparktheater from 1947 and also at the Schiller Theater from 1951 . He only appeared sporadically in post-war cinema, for example in Der Hauptmann und seine Held (1956) or in the Rühmann film The Man Who Couldn't Say No (1958). Clemens Hasse, who was married to the actress Ursula Diestel , died of a heart attack on July 28, 1959 in New York, where he was staying for his daughter's wedding. He was buried in the Dahlem cemetery in Berlin .

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SURNAME Hate, Clemens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 1959
Place of death New York City