O. E. Hasse

O. E. Hasse
Otto Eduard Hasse (11 July 1903 – 12 September 1978) was a German film actor and director.
Biography
Hasse was born to Wilhelm Gustav Eduard Hasse, a blacksmith, and Valeria Hasse in the village of Obersitzko, Province of Posen, German Empire and gained his first stage experiences in high school at Kolmar, together with his classmate Berta Drews. Hasse began to study law at the University of Berlin but abandoned this study after three semesters and changed over to Max Reinhardt's acting school at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, to receive an actor's education.
He first appeared at theatres in Thale, Breslau, and from 1930 till 1939 at the Kammerspiele in Munich, where he also worked as a stage director for the first time. In 1939, he moved to the German Theatre in Prague and shortened his name to O.E. instead of Otto Eduard.
In 1944, he was conscripted to the Luftwaffe and slightly wounded. After World War II Hasse became a famous German film actor, also internationally appearing in the Alfred Hitchcock film I Confess (1953) with Montgomery Clift and Anne Baxter, and starring with Clark Gable and Lana Turner in Betrayed (1954).
In 1959, he was a member of the jury at the 9th Berlin International Film Festival.
Hasse was the German dubbing voice of Charles Laughton, Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy and Clark Gable. Hasse died in Berlin and is buried at the Waldfriedhof Dahlem.
Hasse was gay. His life partner for 30 years was entrepreneur Max Wiener, who worked as a manager at the Swiss media corporation Ringier and was an early gay rights and AIDS advocate.
Since 1981, the Academy of Arts, Berlin, has awarded an O.E. Hasse Prize to benefit young actors.
Filmography
The Last Laugh (1924) as Small Role (uncredited)
Peter Voss, Thief of Millions (1932) as 2. Realtor
Cruiser Emden (1932) as English Officer
Must We Get Divorced? (1933) as A hairdresser
Fräulein Hoffmans Erzählungen (1933)
The Switched Bride (1934)
Little Dorrit (1934)
Peer Gynt (1934) as helmsman
Knockout (1935)
Ein ganzer Kerl (1935) as Manfred Bolle, Son
The King's Prisoner (1935) as Von Zilchow
The Unsuspecting Angel (1936) as Kornitzki
Der schüchterne Casanova (1936) as Schnellhase, chief advertiser
Die große und die kleine Welt (1936)
Dinner Is Served (1936) as Francis, chauffeur
So weit geht die Liebe nicht (1937) as hairdresser Hübner
Three Wonderful Days (1939)
Stukas (1941) as Senior doctor Dr. Gregorius
Everything for Gloria (1941) as Dr. Heinz
(1941) as Peter Wallbrecht
Rembrandt (1942)
Die Entlassung (1942) as Baron von Heyden
Doctor Crippen (1942) as Prof. Morrison
Gefährtin meines Sommers (1943) as Gerhard Morton, Angelika's betrothed
The Eternal Tone (1943) as Impresario Grundmann
Beloved Darling (1943) as Lawyer
Der große Preis (1944) as inspector Wegener
Der Täter ist unter uns (1944) as Dr. Kauper
Come Back to Me (1944)
Aufruhr der Herzen (1944) as Thomas Volderauer
Philharmoniker (1944) as Urdol, concert agent
The Berliner (1948) as the reactionary
Anonymous Letters (1949) as Alexander Petershagen
The Big Lift (1950) as Stieber
The Orplid Mystery (1950) as editor in chief Dr. Mannheim
Decision Before Dawn (1951) as Col. Oberst von Ecker
The Sergeant's Daughter (1952) as cavalry captain Graf Ledenburg
I Confess (1953) as Otto Keller
The Last Waltz (1953) as Prince Paul
When The Village Music Plays on Sunday Nights (1953) as Bruckner
Lachkabinett (1953)
Betrayed (1954) as Col. Helmuth Dietrich
Canaris (1954) as Adm. Canaris
Above Us the Waves (1955) as Captain of the Tirpitz
(1955) as Colonel von Plönnies
(1955) as General von Plönnies
Alibi (1955) as Peter Hansen
Kitty and the Great Big World (1956) as Sir William Ashlin
The Adventures of Arsène Lupin (1957) as emperor Wilhelm II
No Sun in Venice (1957) as Eric von Bergen
The Last Ones Shall Be First (1957) as Ludwig Darrandt
The Spies (1957) as Hugo Vogel
The Glass Tower (1957) as Robert Fleming
The Doctor of Stalingrad (1958) as Dr. Fritz Böhler, Staff surgeon
The Muzzle (1958) as prosecutor Herbert von Treskow
(1958) as Dr. Hans Römer
Mrs. Warren's Profession (1960) as Sir George Crofts
The Nabob Affair (1960) as Le Nabab
The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi (1961) as Florestan Mississippi
Life Begins at Eight (1962) as Mac Thomas
The Elusive Corporal (1962) as drunk passenger on the train
Lulu (1962) as Dr. Schön
Vice and Virtue (1963) as General von Bamberg
The Secret of Dr. Mabuse (1964) as Prof. Larsen
Three Rooms in Manhattan (1965) as Hourvitch
State of Siege (1972) as Carlos Ducas
The Peaceful Age (1975) as Simone
Ice Age (1975) as Old Man
Konkurs (TV-series The Old Fox) (1977) as consul Karst
Awards
1951: Berliner Kunstpreis
1955: Berliner Senatspreis
1961: member of Berlin Akademy of Arts
1964: Staatsschauspieler
1973: Ernst-Reuter-Plakette
1973: Großes Verdienstkreuz der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
References
External links
O.E. Hasse at Internet Movie Database
picture and CV of Hasse (German)
picture of Hasse
1903 births
1978 deaths
People from Szamotuły County
German male stage actors
German male television actors
German male film actors
German theatre directors
German gay actors
LGBT theatre directors
Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
People from the Province of Posen
Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts alumni
Luftwaffe personnel of World War II
20th-century German male actors
20th-century German LGBT people