O. E. Hasse

Otto Eduard Hasse
O. E. Hasse as Mephistopheles
Born	July 11, 1903(1903-07-11) Obersitzko, Province of Posen Imperial Germany
Died	September 12, 1978(1978-09-12) (aged 75) Berlin, Germany
Other names	O. E. Hasse
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1931–1977

Otto Eduard Hasse (11 July 1903 – 12 September 1978) was a German film actor and director.

Biography

Hasse was born to Wilhelm Gustav Eduard Hasse, a blacksmith, and Valeria Hasse in the village of Obersitzko, Province of Posen, Imperial Germany and gained his first stage experiences at highschool at Kolmar together with his classmate Berta Drews. Hasse began to study law at the University of Berlin but abandoned this study after three semester and changed over to the Max Reinhardt's actor school at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin to receive an actor's education.

He first apperared at Theaters in Thale, Breslau and from 1930 till 1939 at the Kammerspiele in Munich, where he also worked as a stage director for the first time. In 1939 he moved to the German Theater in Prague and shortened his name to O.E. instead of Otto Eduard.

In 1944 he was conscripted to the Luftwaffe and slightly wounded. After World War II Hasse became a famous German movie actor, also internationally appearing in Hitchcock's movie I Confess with Montgomery Clift as well as next to Clark Gable and Lana Turner in Betrayed.

In 1959 he was a member of the jury at the 9th Berlin International Film Festival.^[1]

Hasse was the German dubbing voice of Charles Laughton, Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy and Clark Gable. Hasse died in Berlin and is buried at the Waldfriedhof Dahlem. Since 1981 the German Academy of Arts donates an O.E. Hasse Prize to benefit young actors.

filmography

1932: Peter Voß, der Millionendieb 1932: Kreuzer Emden 1932: Muß man sich gleich scheiden lassen? 1933: Fräulein Hoffmans Erzählungen 1934: Die vertauschte Braut 1934: Peer Gynt 1935: Knock-out 1935: Der ahnungslose Engel 1936: Der schüchterne Casanova 1936: Die große und die kleine Welt 1936: Diener lassen bitten 1937: So weit geht die Liebe nicht 1938: Drei wunderschöne Tage 1941: Stukas 1941: Alles für Gloria 1941: Illusionen 1942: Rembrandt 1942: Die Entlassung 1942: Dr. Crippen an Bord 1943: Gefährtin meines Sommers 1943: Der ewige Klang 1943: Geliebter Schatz 1944: Der große Preis 1944: Der Täter ist unter uns 1944: Komm zu mir zurück 1944: Aufruhr der Herzen 1944: Philharmoniker 1948: Berliner Ballade 1949: Anonyme Briefe 1950: The Big Lift 1950: Epilog 1951: Decision Before Dawn

1952: Der große Zapfenstreich 1953: I Confess 1953: Der letzte Walzer 1953: Wenn am Sonntagabend die Dorfmusik spielt 1954: Betrayed 1954: Canaris 1955: Above Us the Waves 1955: 08/15 2. Teil 1955: 08/15 in der Heimat 1955: Alibi 1956: Spuren in die Vergangenheit (Sait-on jamais) 1956: Kitty und die große Welt 1957: Die Letzten werden die Ersten sein 1957: Arsène Lupin – der Millionendieb (Les aventures d'Arsene Lupin) 1957: The Spies 1957: Der gläserne Turm 1957: Der Arzt von Stalingrad 1957: No Sun in Venice 1958: Der Maulkorb 1958: Solange das Herz schlägt 1959: Frau Warrens Gewerbe 1960: Affäre Nabob 1961: Die Ehe des Herrn Mississippi 1961: Das Leben beginnt um 8 1962: Vice and Virtue (Le vice et la virtue) 1962: Lulu 1962: The Elusive Corporal 1964: Die Todesstrahlen des Dr. Mabuse 1965: Three Rooms in Manhattan (Trois chambres à Manhattan) 1972: State of Siege 1974: Zeit des Friedens (L'età della pace) 1974: Eiszeit 1977: Konkurs (TV-series The Old Fox)

Awards

• 1951: Kunstpreis der Stadt Berlin
• 1955: Berliner Senatspreis
• 1961: member of Berlin Akademy of Arts
• 1964: Staatsschauspieler
• 1973: Ernst-Reuter-Plakette
• 1974: Großes Verdienstkreuz der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

References

1. ^ "9th Berlin International Film Festival: Juries". berlinale.de. http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1959/04_jury_1959/04_Jury_1959.html. Retrieved 2010-01-05. 

External links

• O.E. Hasse at Internet Movie Database
• picture and CV of Hasse (German)
• picture of Hasse

Persondata
Name	Hasse, Otto Eduard
Alternative names	O.E. Hasse
Short description	Actor
Date of birth	1903-9-11
Place of birth	Obersitzko, Germany
Date of death	1978-9-12
Place of death	Berlin, Germany