Hans (Johannes) Finohr (5 September 1891–8 November 1966) was a German actor.

Biography

Finohr was born in the village of Rynnek,

West Prussia The Province of West Prussia (german: Provinz Westpreußen; csb, Zôpadné Prësë; pl, Prusy Zachodnie) was a province of Prussia from 1773 to 1829 and 1878 to 1920. West Prussia was established as a province of the Kingdom of Prussia in 177 ...

Imperial Germany The German Empire (), Herbert Tuttle wrote in September 1881 that the term "Reich" does not literally connote an empire as has been commonly assumed by English-speaking people. The term literally denotes an empire – particularly a hereditar ...

and gained his first stage experiences at

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(Mamonovo). He worked at several theaters in

Königsberg Königsberg (, ) was the historic Prussian city that is now Kaliningrad, Russia. Königsberg was founded in 1255 on the site of the ancient Old Prussian settlement ''Twangste'' by the Teutonic Knights during the Northern Crusades, and was name ...

Gera Gera is a city in the German state of Thuringia. With around 93,000 inhabitants, it is the third-largest city in Thuringia after Erfurt and Jena as well as the easternmost city of the ''Thüringer Städtekette'', an almost straight string of cit ...

Vienna en, Viennese , iso_code = AT-9 , registration_plate = W , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = , timezone = CET , utc_offset = +1 , timezone_DST ...

Mannheim Mannheim (; Palatine German: or ), officially the University City of Mannheim (german: Universitätsstadt Mannheim), is the second-largest city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg after the state capital of Stuttgart, and Germany's ...

and

Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as ...

. From 1943 to 1957 he worked at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden.DEFA-Sternstunden.de

Partial filmography

*1952: '' Das verurteilte Dorf'' - Amerikanischer General *1953: ''Geheimakten Solvay'' - Lokführer *1954: ''

Ernst Thälmann Ernst Johannes Fritz Thälmann (; 16 April 1886 – 18 August 1944) was a German communist politician, and leader of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) from 1925 to 1933. A committed Marxist-Leninist and Stalinist, Thälmann played a major r ...

'' *1957: '' Schlösser und Katen'' - Der alte Sikora *1957: ''Wo du hingehst...'' - Mann *1958: ''

Les Misérables ''Les Misérables'' ( , ) is a French historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published in 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. In the English-speaking world, the novel is usually referred to by its origin ...

'' - Un révolutionnaire #2 *1958: ''Nur eine Frau'' *1958: '' Das Lied der Matrosen'' - Werftschreiber Schröder *1958: ''Tilman Riemenschneider'' - Bärtiger Bauer *1959: ''SAS 181 antwortet nicht'' *1959: '' An Old Love'' (1959) - Der alte Schwannaeke *1959: ''

Intrigue and Love ''Intrigue and Love'', sometimes ''Love and Intrigue'', ''Love and Politics'' or ''Luise Miller'' (german: Kabale und Liebe, ; literally "''Cabal and Love''") is a five-act play written by the German dramatist Friedrich Schiller. His third play, ...

'' - Kammerdiener *1960: '' Always on Duty'' - Arthur Wedel *1960: '' Fünf Patronenhülsen'' - Pedro *1961: ''Ein Sommertag macht keine Liebe'' - Kaluweit *1962: ''Tanz am Sonnabend'' - Bruno Schönherr *1963: ''Praha nultá hodina'' - Siegfried Adler *1963: ''Sonntagsfahrer'' - Kontrolleur *1965: ''Tiefe Furchen'' - Pfarrer *1965: '' Solange Leben in mir ist'' - Ledebour *1965: ''Denk bloß nicht, ich heule'' - Bauer *1966: '' Die Söhne der Großen Bärin'' - Hawandschita *1968: ''Der Mord, der nie verjährt'' - Präsident (final film role)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Finohr, Hans 1891 births 1966 deaths German male stage actors German male television actors German male film actors People from West Prussia 20th-century German male actors