Hans Halden

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Hans Halden (born January 12, 1888 in Breslau ; † September 21, 1973 in Berlin ) was a German actor in the stage and film industry.

Life

Halden began his artistic career in the imperial era and initially worked in the provinces, most recently (1912/13 season) at the Grand Ducal Court Theater in Schwerin . He then went to Berlin, where he continued his stage career and also appeared in front of the film camera for the first time.

Nevertheless, the theater initially remained a main field of activity, and Halden et al. a. at the Volksbühne and the Saltenburg-Bühnen, after 1933 at the Rose Theater and during the Second World War also at the Schiller Theater directed by Heinrich George . Immediately after the war Halden continued his artistic career at the Hebbel Theater and on the Stage of Youth. In the 1950s, Hans Halden belonged to the ensembles of the Berlin venues Tribune and Renaissance Theater.

In 1957 Halden moved to Hamburg to take up an engagement at the Theater im Zimmer. In the following decade, Hans Halden returned to Berlin and retired.

Halden's (mostly small) roles in the film, which he mainly turned to in the 1930s, were mostly of a serious nature: he played several police and detective inspectors, but also a banker and a doctor. In his late working years in Berlin, he was also engaged by the still young television. There, in turn, Halden was regularly used as the “little man from the street” (clerk, shoemaker, house servant).

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SURNAME Halden, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor on stage and film
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1973
Place of death Berlin