Paul Hansard (12 January 1922 – 28 January 2013) was a

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-born British actor on both television and film. He was also a puppeteer. On several of his television appearances on both ''The Buccaneers'' and ''The Adventures of Robin Hood'', he is shown as a musician, playing the guitar and singing. In 1965, ''Das Lied im Grünen: German Folksongs'' was released, featuring him singing traditional German music accompanied by the guitarist Jan Rosol.

Select film appearances

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Portrait from Life ''Portrait from Life'' (also known as ''Lost Daughter'', and in the U.S. as ''The Girl in the Painting'') is a 1948 British drama film directed by Terence Fisher and starring Mai Zetterling, Robert Beatty and Guy Rolfe. Plot A British Army offi ...

'' (1949) - Fritz (uncredited) * ''

The Huggetts Abroad ''The Huggetts Abroad'' is a 1949 British film starring Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Petula Clark and Susan Shaw. It was the final film of The Huggetts. The film was less commercially successful than its predecessors. A sequel, ''Christmas ...

'' (1949) - Assistant Commandant (uncredited) * ''

La Rosa di Bagdad ''La Rosa di Bagdad'' (English: ''The Rose of Baghdad'') is a 1949 Italian animated film by Anton Gino Domeneghini. In 1952, the film was dubbed into English, retitled ''The Singing Princess'' and dubbed by Julie Andrews as her first venture into v ...

'' (1949) - Zirko, Minister of BeautifulThings (English version, voice) * ''

Murder in the Cathedral ''Murder in the Cathedral'' is a verse drama by T. S. Eliot, first performed in 1935, that portrays the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral during the reign of Henry II in 1170. Eliot drew heavily on the writin ...

'' (1951) - Peasant * '' The One That Got Away'' (1957) - German Prisoner * '' The Guns of Navarone'' (1961) - German Telephone Operator (uncredited) * '' Live It Up!'' (1963) - Film Director * '' Thunderball'' (1965) - Displaced Persons Agency Clerk (uncredited) * ''

Operation Crossbow ''Crossbow'' was the code name in World War II for Anglo-American operations against the German V-weapons, long range reprisal weapons (V-weapons) programme. The main V-weapons were the V-1 flying bomb and V-2 rocket – these were launched aga ...

'' (1965) - German Policeman (uncredited) * ''

The Heroes of Telemark ''The Heroes of Telemark'' is a 1965 British war film directed by Anthony Mann based on the true story of the Norwegian heavy water sabotage during the Second World War from ''Skis Against the Atom'', the memoirs of Norwegian resistance soldi ...

'' (1965) - German Officer (uncredited) * ''

The Quiller Memorandum ''The Quiller Memorandum'' is a 1966 British neo noir eurospy film filmed in DeLuxe Color, Deluxe Color and Panavision, adapted from the 1965 spy fiction, spy novel ''The Berlin Memorandum'', by Elleston Trevor under the name "Adam Hall", screen ...

'' (1966) - Dr. Loewe (uncredited) * '' Submarine X-1'' (1968) - Cmdr. Steiner (uncredited) * ''

Oh! What a Lovely War ''Oh! What a Lovely War'' is a 1969 British comedy musical war film directed by Richard Attenborough (in his directorial debut), with an ensemble cast, including Maggie Smith, Dirk Bogarde, John Gielgud, John Mills, Kenneth More, Laurence Oli ...

'' (1969) - German Officer (uncredited) * ''

Battle of Britain The Battle of Britain, also known as the Air Battle for England (german: die Luftschlacht um England), was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the Fleet Air Arm (FAA) of the Royal Navy defende ...

'' (1969) - Karl (uncredited) * ''

Trog ''Trog'' is a 1970 British science fiction horror film directed by Freddie Francis, and starring Joan Crawford in a story about the discovery of a troglodyte (or Ice Age "caveman") in twentieth-century United Kingdom. The screenplay was written ...

'' (1970) - Dr. Kurtlimer (uncredited) * ''

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes ''The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes'' is a 1970 DeLuxe Color film in Panavision written and produced by Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond, and directed by Wilder. The film offers an affectionate, slightly parodic look at Sherlock Holmes, an ...

'' (1970) - Monk * ''

Slaughterhouse-Five ''Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death'' is a 1969 semi-autobiographic science fiction-infused anti-war novel by Kurt Vonnegut. It follows the life and experiences of Billy Pilgrim, from his early years, to h ...

'' (1972) - German Photographer (uncredited) * ''

Gold Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au (from la, aurum) and atomic number 79. This makes it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur naturally. It is a bright, slightly orange-yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile met ...

'' (1974) - Syndicate Member (final film role)

Television appearances

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The Adventures of Robin Hood ''The Adventures of Robin Hood'' is a 1938 American Technicolor swashbuckler film from Warner Bros. Pictures. It was produced by Hal B. Wallis and Henry Blanke, directed by Michael Curtiz and William Keighley, and stars Errol Flynn, Olivia de H ...

'': 7 episodes (1956-1958) - Various Characters *'' The Buccaneers'': 36 episodes (1956-1957) - Taffy / Alfie “The Last Train”.“Scotland Yard” (TV series), 1 episode, 1959. Police Official. *''Col March of Scotland Yard ( TV series)'': Rene, "Passage at Arms". 1953

Stage

*''Twelfth Night by W Shakespeare (Old Vic Company/British Council)'': Sebastiano. Teatro Comunale Giuseppe Verdi, Trieste, June 1950

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hansard, Paul 20th-century German male actors German male film actors German male television actors 1922 births 2013 deaths German emigrants to the United Kingdom