Hans Nielsen (actor)

Hans Nielsen (actor)
Hans Albert Nielsen (30 November 1911 – 11 October 1965) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 130 films between 1937 and 1965.
Biography
Hans Albert Nielsen was born in Hamburg, Germany. He first got an education in business, but afterward, began taking private acting lessons from Albrecht Schoenhals and Erich Ziegel. He made his stage debut in Hamburg in 1932, after which he worked in Augsburg, Kiel, Leipzig, Berlin, Munich and Düsseldorf. Many actors and performing artists fled Nazi Germany, but Nielsen remained. He made his film debut in 1937 in Daphne and the Diplomat, followed by German movies, such as Heimat (with Zarah Leander), Friedrich Schiller – The Triumph of a Genius (with Horst Caspar) and The Great King (with Otto Gebühr).
After World War II, Nielsen performed in a Kabarett group, Die Außenseiter ("The Outsider") and played in revues by cabaret artist Günter Neumann. He resumed his successful film acting career in 1947, appearing in In Those Days, a drama by Helmut Käutner. He often played roles that were good-natured, likeable and elegant, such as the presiding judge in the 1953 satire Hocuspocus with Curt Goetz; the criminal defense attorney in Confess, Doctor Corda; a police inspector with Christopher Lee in Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace; the police chief in Scotland Yard Hunts Dr. Mabuse and a judge in The Juvenile Judge, with Heinz Rühmann. He also worked with Curd Jürgens and Lilo Pulver in a film version of Conrad Ferdinand Meyer's Gustav Adolf's Page. He also appeared in a few Karl May films and in Edgar Wallace's The Indian Scarf, Das Phantom von Soho and The Door with Seven Locks. His only Hollywood film was Town Without Pity (1961) with Kirk Douglas.
In addition to his own film roles, in 1948, Nielsen began working as a voice actor, dubbing films into German, including Fred Astaire (Funny Face and Daddy Long Legs); Gary Cooper (Cloak and Dagger, among others); Errol Flynn (The Adventures of Robin Hood, Adventures of Don Juan, among others); Cary Grant (Crisis); Rex Harrison (Cleopatra); Phil Silvers (Cover Girl); David Niven (The King's Thief, among others), Tyrone Power (The Mark of Zorro and Prince of Foxes, among others); James Stewart (in The Philadelphia Story and Anatomy of a Murder, among others); Robert Taylor (Quo Vadis), Spencer Tracy (Malaya); Orson Welles (Citizen Kane) and Trevor Howard (The Third Man).
Selected filmography
Daphne and the Diplomat (1937) – Achim Hell
Tango Notturno (1937) – Billy Sefton – Fliegeroffizier
The Mystery of Betty Bonn (1938) – Jack Winsloe – Schriftsteller
Heimat (1938) – Max von Wendlowsky
Red Orchids (1938) – Antonio – Marias Bruder
Freight from Baltimore (1938) – Kurt Engström
The Green Hell (1938) – Kapitän Murray
A Prussian Love Story (1938) – Kronprinz Friedrich Wilhelm – sein Sohn
Uproar in Damascus (1939) – Hauptmann Schulz
Fasching (1939) – Martin
Dein Leben gehört mir (1939)
Alarm at Station III (1939) – Hauptmann Karsten
Mein Mann darf es nicht wissen (1940) – Willi Ulbrich
Trenck, der Pandur (1940) – Laudon
Falstaff in Vienna (1940) – Otto Nicolai
Friedrich Schiller – The Triumph of a Genius (1940) – Student Scharffenstein
Ich klage an (1941) – Dr. Höfer
The Great King (1942) – Niehoff
Die Nacht in Venedig (1942) – Dr. Nikolaus Roll, genannt Niki, Kaufmann
Titanic (1943) – 1st Officer Petersen
I'll Carry You in My Arms (1943) – Dr. Hermnann Hartung
Leichtes Blut (1943) – Professor Faber
Um neun kommt Harald (1944) – Lawyer Dr. Tromsa
Music in Salzburg (1944) – Dr. Franz Mädler
Der Engel mit dem Saitenspiel (1944) – Bernhard Zoller
Dr. phil. Doederlein (1945)
Der Scheiterhaufen (1945)
In Those Days (1947) – Wolfgang Grunelius / 2. Geschichte
King of Hearts (1947) – König Peter Petroni
Chemistry and Love (1948) – Dr. Alland
Unser Mittwochabend (1948) – Georg
Die kupferne Hochzeit (1948) – Otto
Das kleine Hofkonzert (1948) – Leutnant Walter von Arneck
Heimliches Rendezvous (1949) – Schulrat
Keepers of the Night (1949) – Pfarrer Johannes Heger
Five Suspects (1950) – Kriminalrat Thomsen
Crown Jewels (1950) – Willroy
Die Tat des Anderen (1951) – Schriftsteller Mönk
Das späte Mädchen (1951) – Dr. Hans Ahlgrimm
All Clues Lead to Berlin (1952) – Kriminalrat Dr. Wangen
The Blue Hour (1953) – Paul
Hocuspocus (1953) – Gerichtspräsident
The Divorcée (1953) – Lucas
Secretly Still and Quiet (1953) – Harry Vondenhoff
Die heilige Lüge (1954)
The First Kiss (1954) – Escher
Marriage Impostor (1954) – Dr. Peter Krüger
Geliebtes Fräulein Doktor (1954) – Direktor Dr. Franke
Stopover in Orly (1955) – Eugène Boreau
My Children and I (1955) – Wilhelm Roecker
Roman einer Siebzehnjährigen (1955) – Eduard Schenk
Devil in Silk (1956) – Dr. Zacharias
Die wilde Auguste (1956) – Direktor Roland
Vergiß wenn Du kannst (1956) – Kunstmaler Bastian Weghart
Before Sundown (1956) – Dr. Steynitz, Sanitätsrat
Hochzeit auf Immenhof (1956) – Pankraz
My Brother Joshua (1956) – Der Pfarrer
Kleines Zelt und große Liebe (1956) – Karins Vater
A Heart Returns Home (1956) – Martin Thomas
Die liebe Familie (1957) – Karl Lang
Made in Germany (1957)
Queen Louise (1957) – Hardenberg
Glücksritter (1957) – Dr. Dreher
Tolle Nacht (1957) – Mr. Vanderbilt
Anders als du und ich (1957) – Max Mertens
Von allen geliebt (1957) – Dr. Johannes Fürst
At the Green Cockatoo by Night (1957) – Eduard Reichmann, Onkel
(1957) – Helmut Jäger
Zwei Matrosen auf der Alm (1958)
Two Hearts in May (1958) – Direktor Leisemann
Heart Without Mercy (1958) – Dr. Waagemann
Confess, Doctor Corda (1958) – Lawyer Dr. Nagel
Schmutziger Engel (1958) – Direktor Schorlemmer
Man in the River (1958) – Egon Iversen
The Girl from the Marsh Croft (1958) – Amtmann Lindgren
That Won't Keep a Sailor Down (1958) – Pastor Paulsen
(1958) – Otto Vogelsang
I'll Carry You in My Arms (1958) – Dr. Compagnuolo
(1959) – (uncredited)
The Scarlet Baroness (1959) – Professor Reimer
Court Martial (1959) – Dr. Wilhelmi, Defense Lawyer
Verbrechen nach Schulschluß (1959) – Landgerichtsdirektor Dr. Senftenberg
The Forests Sing Forever (1959) – Major Barre
The Blue Sea and You (1959) – Direktor Heidebrink
Love Now, Pay Later (1959) – Bernbeil, ein Industrieller
Heimat – Deine Lieder (1959) – Pauls Vater
Bei der blonden Kathrein (1959) – Der baron
Adorable Arabella (1959) – Vater Hagemann
The Juvenile Judge (1960) – District Court President Dr. Otto Schmittler
Mistress of the World (1960) – Colonel Dagget
I Learned That in Paris (1960) – Professor Giselius
Die zornigen jungen Männer (1960) – Pflueger
Freddy and the Melody of the Night (1960) – Direktor Wendlandt
The Inheritance of Bjorndal (1960) – Major a.D. Barre
Mal drunter – mal drüber (1960) – Herr Kronsdorf
(1960) – Pappi
Gustav Adolf's Page (1960) – Bürgermeister Leublfing
Town Without Pity (1961) – Karl Steinhof
You Must Be Blonde on Capri (1961) – Bernard Wagner
Barbara (1961) – Mikkelsen
(1961) – Narrator (voice)
(1962) – Gerichtspräsident
Eheinstitut Aurora (1962) – Dr. Burgmüller, Anwalt
The Door with Seven Locks (1962) – Mr. Haveloc
Doctor Sibelius (1962) – Dr. Reinhardt
So toll wie anno dazumal (1962) – Brenders
(1962) – Chefportier Jenner
The Brain (1962) – Immerman
Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962) – Inspector Cooper
His Best Friend (1962) – Direktor Imhoff
Only a Woman (1962) – Dr. Katz, Nervenarzt
Dr (1962) – Dr. Rajser
Storm Over Ceylon (1963) – Professor Ferlach
The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle (1963) – Tavish
The Indian Scarf (1963) – Mr. Tilling
Scotland Yard Hunts Dr. Mabuse (1963) – Chef von Scotland Yard
Die Nacht am See (1963)
The Phantom of Soho (1964) – Lord Harald Malhaus
Destination Death (1964) – Major a. D. Friedrich Hackländer
Old Shatterhand (1964) – Gen. Taylor (voice, uncredited)
Ein Frauenarzt klagt an (1964) – Dr. Kraus
The Monster of London City (1964) – Dorne
Bullets Don't Argue (1964) – Rev. Alvarez
The Seventh Victim (1964) – Reverend Turner
100 Horsemen (1964) – Alfonso Ordoñez, alcalde
The Treasure of the Aztecs (1965) – Don Pedro Arbellez
Hotel der toten Gäste (1965) – Inspector Forbesa
The Pyramid of the Sun God (1965) – Don Pedro Arbellez
Five Thousand Dollars on One Ace (1965) – Juez Keystone
The Hell of Manitoba (1965) – Mayor
References
External links
Photos of Hans Nielsen Virtual History
1911 births
1965 deaths
German male film actors
Male actors from Hamburg
20th-century German male actors