Harald Maresch

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Harald Maresch , also Harald Ramond (born June 10, 1916 in Vienna , Austria , † December 7, 1986 in Los Angeles , United States) was an Austro-American actor .

Life

Maresch received his artistic training at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in the mid-1930s and then followed engagements in Zurich and Vienna. Barely 20 years old, he made his film debut as Maria Andergast's brother in the drama Manja Valewska . After the annexation of Austria in March 1938, Maresch fled to France . In June 1941 he managed to escape from the German occupation forces to New York City via Trinidad and Cuba .

Arrived in Hollywood , the good-looking young mime was given mostly tiny film roles in 1944. In the same year, an affair with the Mexican actress Lupe Vélez , whom he is said to have impregnated, caused much more sensation . When Maresch did not show himself ready to marry her, Velez then committed suicide . In her suicide note she named Maresch as the child's father. After her suicide, Maresch, who also called himself Harald Ramond in the United States, found no employment in Hollywood until the 1950s.

He then tried (with little success) at the theater. In 1951 Harald Maresch produced the play My LA , but left the United States again a year later and went to the Federal Republic of Germany. There he settled in Munich and took on various medium-sized roles in a number of cinema and television films. Most recently, he worked several times in individual episodes of popular TV series until the late 1960s. Eventually Harald Maresch returned to Los Angeles and settled in West Hollywood .

Filmography

Movies unless otherwise stated

literature

  • Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than given ...". Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. ACABUS Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 593.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ IMDB lists Savoy-Hotel 217 as his first film, but Maresch is not detectable in this film (cf. the meticulous list of all actors in Ulrich J. Klaus: Deutsche Tonfilme, Volume 7, born 1936)
  2. ↑ Lupe Velez in straightdope.com
  3. ↑ In the German edition of Kenneth Anger's book Hollywood Babylon (Munich 1985) it says about this complex on page 260 f. of the second volume: "Heavily indebted and pregnant by her newest lover, Harald Ramond, Lupe staged her last night on earth with all due care".
  4. ↑ Lupe Velez in guy.com ( memento of the original from December 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / guy.com
personal data
SURNAME Maresch, Harald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ramond, Harald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria
DATE OF DEATH 7th December 1986
Place of death Los Angeles , United States