Clemens Hasse (13 April 1908 – 28 July 1959) was a German actor and synchroniser.

Biography

Hasse was born in

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to a public official and attended his stage education at the ''Preussisches Staatstheater'' in

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. Between 1929 and 1944, when the Theater was closed down, he was a constant member of the Staatstheater ensemble. Hasse first appeared in a UFA movie in 1932 and acted in several movies next to popular stars like

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or Hans Albers. He was the German dubbing voice of Eddie Albert, Lou Costello,

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and also the voice of the white rabbit in

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''. After World War II Hasse worked at the ''Schlosspark-Theater'' Berlin and after 1951 at the ''Schillertheater''. He died of a heart attack at

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on the occasion of his daughter's marriage and is buried at

Waldfriedhof Dahlem The Waldfriedhof Dahlem ( Dahlem forest cemetery) is a cemetery in Berlin, in the district of Steglitz-Zehlendorf on the edge of the Grunewald forest at Hüttenweg 47. Densely planted with conifers and designed between 1931 and 1933 after the ...

in Berlin.

Filmography

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picture of 1934
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hasse, Clemens 1908 births 1959 deaths German male film actors German male stage actors Actors from Königsberg People from East Prussia 20th-century German male actors