Harry Hasso (born Karl Hartnagel; 24 July 1904 – 11 July 1984) was a

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actor, cinematographer and film director. Hasso was born in

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. He worked in Sweden, Germany and Italy and for a short time in Finland as a cameraman and film director and he also wrote some of the music and manuscripts for some of the films he made. He learned to play the violin at a very young age and also played harmonica. He started his career in

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when was 16 years old. He started his own film company at age 18. He made many movies and at least 100 documentary films among them films about his home country and home town. All the documentaries he made have been missing since

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. Occasionally he was an actor in some of his films. He also worked in a

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as an

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and according to himself his act there was to stand on one hand on a bottle that was placed on a chair. He married the Swedish actress

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in 1933. In 1943 he married the Swedish film actress

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. Both were successful actresses in the

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. Viveca worked also in the theatre with great success.

has a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was a famous Hollywood movie star with long career and an author of several books and a musician. Harry remarried twice after that. His last wife was the Swedish actress Britta Hasso (1936 - 2015) who later after their marriage became a journalist in Helsingborg at the newspaper Helsingborgs Dagblad. They married in 1961 and remained married until his death in 1984.

Selected filmography

* ''

False Greta ''False Greta'' (Swedish: ''Falska Greta'') is a 1934 Finnish-Swedish comedy film directed by John W. Brunius and Pauline Brunius and starring Adolf Jahr, Karin Albihn and Isa Quensel. It was shot at studios in Helsinki and on location in Stoc ...

'' (1934) * ''

Eva Goes Aboard ''Eva Goes Aboard'' (Swedish: ''Eva går ombord'') is a 1934 Swedish comedy film directed by Lorens Marmstedt and starring Einar Axelsson, Astrid Marmstedt and Emy Hagman.Qvist & Von Bagh p.110 It was shot in Stockholm and Gothenburg with footage ...

'' (1934) * ''House of Silence'' (1988) (1933) inematographer ctor* '' Pengar från skyn'' (1938) inematographer* '' In Paradise'' (1941) * '' The Talk of the Town'' (1941) inematographer* ''

If I Could Marry the Minister ''If I Could Marry the Minister'' (Swedish: ''Tänk, om jag gifter mig med prästen'') is a 1941 Swedish romantic drama film directed by Ivar Johansson and starring Viveca Lindfors, Georg Rydeberg, Arnold Sjöstrand. with screenplay by Ester Lin ...

'' (1941) inematographer* ''

The Yellow Clinic ''The Yellow Clinic'' (Swedish: ''Gula kliniken'') is a 1942 Swedish drama film directed by Ivar Johansson and starring Arnold Sjöstrand, Viveca Lindfors and Nils Lundell.Qvist & Von Bagh p.105 It was made at the Centrumateljéerna Studios in ...

'' (1942) inematographer* '' The Woman of Sin'' (1942) * ''

Border Post 58 ''Border Post 58'' (german: Grenzstation 58) is a 1951 West German crime film directed by Harry Hasso and starring Hansi Knoteck, Mady Rahl and Elise Aulinger.Höfig p.144 Cast * Hansi Knoteck as Anna Leitner * Mady Rahl as Retta Schwaiger * El ...

'' (1951) * '' Maria Johanna'' (1953) inematographer irector ctor riter

References

External links

* *
His private clip book
(In Swedish.)
His grandsons Film Company
- (In Swedish.) {{DEFAULTSORT:Hasso, Harry 1904 births 1984 deaths People from Frankenthal Swedish male film actors Swedish cinematographers Swedish film directors People from the Palatinate (region) 20th-century Swedish male actors