Hans Reiser (3 June 1919 – 10 June 1992) was a German

film A film, also known as a movie or motion picture, is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, emotions, or atmosphere through the use of moving images that are generally, sinc ...

and

television actor An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. ...

.Cowie p.166 He starred as

Joseph Schmidt Joseph Schmidt (4 March 1904 – 16 November 1942) was an Austro-Hungarian and Romanian Jewish tenor. Life and career Schmidt was born in Davideny (Ukrainian: '' Davydivka'') village in the Storozhynets district of the Bukovina province of ...

in the 1958 biopic '' A Song Goes Round the World'', and ''

The Great Escape (film) ''The Great Escape'' is a 1963 American Epic film, epic war film, war adventure film starring Steve McQueen, James Garner and Richard Attenborough and featuring James Donald, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence, James Coburn, Hannes Messemer, Dav ...

'' as Herr Kuhn. Reiser was born and died in

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Filmography

References

Bibliography

* Cowie, Peter. ''World Filmography 1968''. Tantivy Press, 1968.

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* * Male actors from Munich 1919 births 1992 deaths German male film actors German male television actors 20th-century German male actors {{Germany-screen-actor-stub