Hans Jaray (1906–1990) was an Austrian actor and playwright. He also wrote and directed several television films. Jaray starred as a leading man in a number of 1930s films, such as the

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Gently My Songs Entreat ''Gently My Songs Entreat'' (German: ') is a 1933 Austrian-German musical film directed by Willi Forst and starring Marta Eggerth, Luise Ullrich and Hans Jaray. The film was shot at the Sievering Studios in Vienna with art direction by Julius v ...

'' (1933).Bergfelder & Cargnell p.130 Jaray emigrated to the United States following the

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of 1938, but returned to

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after the

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. The 1934 Czech film '' Man in Demand on All Sides'' was based on one of his plays. In one of his final roles he appeared in the 1977 West German television series ''

Uncle Silas ''Uncle Silas'', subtitled "A Tale of Bartram Haugh", is an 1864 Victorian Gothic mystery-thriller novel by the Irish writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu. Despite Le Fanu resisting its classification as such, the novel has also been hailed as a work ...

''.

Selected filmography

* '' Sons in Law'' (1926) * ''

The Love of Jeanne Ney ''The Love of Jeanne Ney'' (german: Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney), released as ''Lusts of the Flesh'' in the United Kingdom, is a 1927 German silent drama film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst based on a novel by Ilya Ehrenburg. Plot Jeanne is the ...

'' (1927) * ''

The Beggar Student ''Der Bettelstudent'' (''The Beggar Student'') is an operetta in three acts by Carl Millöcker with a German libretto by Camillo Walzel (under the pseudonym of F. Zell) and Richard Genée, based on ''Les noces de Fernande'' by Victorien Sardou ...

'' (1931) * ''

The Emperor's Sweetheart ''The Emperor's Sweetheart'' (German: ''Kaiserliebchen'') is a 1931 German historical musical comedy film directed by Hans Tintner and starring Liane Haid, Walter Janssen and Wilhelm Bendow. It was shot at the Grunewald Studios in Berlin.Klaus ...

'' (1931) * ''

'' (1933) * '' Peter'' (1934) * ''

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'' (1934) * '' Ball at the Savoy'' (1935) * '' Her Highness Dances the Waltz'' (1935) * ''

The Affairs of Maupassant ''The Affairs of Maupassant'' is a 1935 Austrian-Italian drama film production. The German title is ''Das Tagebuch der Geliebten'' and the Italian title is ''Il diario di una donna amata'', which means "the diary of a woman in love". An historical ...

'' (1936) * '' Fräulein Lilli'' (1936) * Marlene Deitrich and Hans Jaray in Vienna, 1934

'' The Priest from Kirchfeld'' (1937) * ''

Lydia Lydia ( Lydian: ‎𐤮𐤱𐤠𐤭𐤣𐤠, ''Śfarda''; Aramaic: ''Lydia''; el, Λυδία, ''Lȳdíā''; tr, Lidya) was an Iron Age kingdom of western Asia Minor located generally east of ancient Ionia in the modern western Turkish pro ...

'' (1941) * ''

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'' (1947) * '' Voices of Spring'' (1952)

References

Bibliography

* Bergfelder, Tim & Cargnelli, Christian. ''Destination London: German-speaking emigrés and British cinema, 1925-1950''. Berghahn Books, 2008.

External links

* 1906 births 1990 deaths Austrian male film actors Austrian male silent film actors 20th-century Austrian male actors Austrian male stage actors Austrian exiles Austrian people of Jewish descent Film people from Vienna {{Austria-bio-stub