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Signe Hasso is a Actor Suédoise born on 15 august 1915 at Stockholm (Suede)

Signe Hasso

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Birth name Signe Eleonora Cecilia Larsson
Nationality Suede
Birth 15 august 1915 at Stockholm (Suede)
Death 7 june 2002 (at 86 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Signe Hasso (15 August 1915 – 7 June 2002) was a Swedish-born American actress, writer and composer.

Biography

Formée à l'école (Dramatens elevskola) du Théâtre dramatique royal — "Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern", abrégé Dramaten, en suédois — de Stockholm, elle débute au théâtre en 1933 et joue au Dramaten jusqu'en 1939. Ayant épousé en 1932 le chef opérateur et réalisateur suédois Harry Hasso (1904-1984), elle sera désormais connue sous le nom de Signe Hasso (et ce jusqu'à la fin de sa carrière, bien qu'ayant divorcé en 1941). La même année 1933, elle débute au cinéma et tourne en tout treize films suédois jusqu'en 1941.

Sollicitée par Hollywood en 1940, elle émigre aux États-Unis (où elle s'installe définitivement) et se retrouve sous contrat à la RKO puis à la Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, au moment où une autre actrice d'origine suédoise, Greta Garbo, vient de se retirer (en 1941), laissant donc une place vacante. Mais après quinze films américains de 1942 à 1950 (et, cette dernière année, un film suédois d'Ingmar Bergman), Signe Hasso met quasiment un terme à sa carrière au cinéma : par la suite, elle apparaît seulement dans sept autres films, disséminés entre 1954 et 1998. Mentionnons également un film allemand en 1953, dont elle n'est pas actrice mais réalisatrice (unique contribution à ce titre, en collaboration avec son ex-mari Harry Hasso).

Si elle délaisse le grand écran, Signe Hasso est en revanche active à la télévision, dès les années 1950, participant aux États-Unis à bon nombre de séries et téléfilms, de 1951 à 1985. De plus, elle joue occasionnellement au théâtre à Broadway (quatre pièces, entre 1941 et 1957).

Pour sa contribution au cinéma, une étoile lui est dédiée sur le Walk of Fame d'Hollywood Boulevard.

Best films

A Double Life (1947)
(Actress)
The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944)
(Actress)

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Signe Hasso (23 films)

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Actress

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, 1h36
Directed by Anthony Page
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Kathleen Denise Quinlan, Bibi Andersson, Lorraine Gary, Ben Piazza, Sylvia Sidney, Martine Bartlett
Roles Helene
Rating63% 3.19663.19663.19663.19663.1966
The film was directed by Anthony Page. It follows a girl who is ill with schizophrenia. A doctor is asked to help her out of her state.
Sherlock Holmes in New York, 1h34
Directed by Boris Sagal, Paul Baxley
Origin USA
Genres Thriller
Themes Sherlock Holmes films, Buddy films
Actors Roger Moore, Patrick Macnee, John Huston, Charlotte Rampling, David Huddleston, Signe Hasso
Roles Fraulein Reichenbach
Rating57% 2.8538552.8538552.8538552.8538552.853855
The great detective Sherlock Holmes and his trusted companion Dr. John Watson travel to New York City to investigate a recent threat made by Professor Moriarty.
The Black Bird, 1h50
Directed by David Giler
Genres Comedy
Actors George Segal, Stéphane Audran, Lionel Stander, Lee Patrick, Elisha Cook, Jr., Felix Silla
Roles Dr. Crippen
Rating54% 2.7064252.7064252.7064252.7064252.706425
When San Francisco private detective Sam Spade dies, his son, Sam, Jr., inherits his father's agency, including the sarcastic secretary, Effie Perine (also known as "Godzilla"). He must also continue his father's tradition of "serving minorities." When Caspar Gutman is killed outside Spade's building, his dying words are, "It's black and as long as your arm."
A Reflection of Fear, 1h29
Directed by William A. Fraker
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Robert Shaw, Mary Ure, Sally Kellerman, Signe Hasso, Sondra Locke, Mitch Ryan
Roles Julia
Rating58% 2.9064652.9064652.9064652.9064652.906465
The film is set in an alienated mansion in Eastern Canada that houses Marguerite, 15, the main protagonist, her mother Katherine and her maternal grandmother, Julia.
Code Name: Heraclitus, 1h28
Directed by James Goldstone
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Spy
Themes Spy films
Actors Stanley Baker, Leslie Nielsen, Jack Weston, Sheree North, Kurt Kasznar, Signe Hasso
Roles Lydia Constantine
Rating70% 3.519753.519753.519753.519753.51975
Stanley Baker stars as a British spy who investigates the past of Lydia Constantine (Signe Hasso), the widow of secret agent Constantine (Kurt Kasznar). Lydia is suspected of selling cold war secrets to the Communists. To ascertain the truth, it is necessary to "rebuild" agent Constantine and send his living counterpart behind the Iron Curtain.
Picture Mommy Dead, 1h22
Directed by Bert I. Gordon
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about families
Actors Don Ameche, Martha Hyer, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Wendell Corey, Signe Hasso, Maxwell Reed
Roles Sister René
Rating53% 2.6574752.6574752.6574752.6574752.657475
Susan Shelley thinks her father, Edward, killed her mother, Jessica, years ago. Newly released from an asylum after 3 years, she is reunited with her father and a new stepmother, Francene, but suspicious goings-on threaten to push her over the edge.
This Can't Happen Here, 1h24
Directed by Ingmar Bergman
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Signe Hasso, Alf Kjellin, Stig Olin, Ulf Palme, Gösta Cederlund, Segol Mann
Roles Vera Irmelin
Rating50% 2.5168652.5168652.5168652.5168652.516865
Atka Natas est un agent secret du régime oppressif de Liquidatzia. Il rend visite à son ex-épouse Vera, une chimiste qui est impliquée dabns un réseau d'exilés qui tentent de faire sortir leurs compatriotes de Liquidatzia. Almkvist, un policier local honnête et ancien amant de Vera enquête sur la mort de l'un des réfugiés. Natas a une liste d'agents opérant dans le pays qu'il tente de monayer. Vera tente de le tuer avant qu'il ne puisse le faire et ce d'autant plus qu'il menace son plan d'évasion de ses parents.
Crisis
Crisis (1950)
, 1h33
Directed by Richard Brooks
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Cary Grant, José Ferrer, Paula Raymond, Signe Hasso, Ramón Novarro, Gilbert Roland
Roles Senora Isabel Farrago
Rating66% 3.3466953.3466953.3466953.3466953.346695
Dr. Eugene Ferguson (Cary Grant), a renowned American brain surgeon, and his wife Helen (Paula Raymond) are vacationing in Latin America when a revolution breaks out. They are taken against their will to the country's dictator, Raoul Farrago (José Ferrer), who urgently needs a life-saving operation.
Outside the Wall, 1h20
Directed by Crane Wilbur
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Actors Richard Basehart, Marilyn Maxwell, Signe Hasso, Dorothy Hart, Joseph Pevney, John Hoyt
Roles Celia Bentner
Rating66% 3.3311053.3311053.3311053.3311053.331105
Ex-convict Larry Nelson (Basehart), paroled from prison after serving nearly half of his thirty-year sentence, has problems finding employment. Determined to not fall into the clutches of the law again, he takes a job as a lab assistant in a country sanitarium. There he falls for attractive nurse Charlotte (Maxwell). Larry learns that the sanitarium is a front for a robbery syndicate and finally finds himself a clay pigeon for the gang. Sweet-and-wholesome nurse Ann (Hart) helps Larry to get out of the unpleasant situation.
To the Ends of the Earth, 1h49
Directed by Robert Stevenson
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Noir
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about immigration, Medical-themed films, Seafaring films, Films about drugs, Transport films
Actors Dick Powell, Signe Hasso, Ludwig Donath, Vladimir Nikolayevich Sokoloff, Edgar Barrier, John Hoyt
Roles Ann Grant
Rating68% 3.435563.435563.435563.435563.43556
In 1935, United States Narcotics Agent Michael Barrows (Powell) is assigned to find an unidentified freighter suspected of smuggling drugs. When he and the Coast Guard spot it along the California coast, they give chase. Barrows watches helplessly through binoculars as the freighter captain has about a hundred chained slave laborers thrown overboard to drown. The ship escapes by passing beyond the 12 mile limit and entering international waters. Horrified by what he has seen, Barrows determines to smash the narcotics ring - traveling "to the ends of the Earth" if need be - without first clearing it with his boss, Commissioner H. J. Anslinger (played by the real Harry J. Anslinger).
Where There's Life, 1h15
Directed by Sidney Lanfield
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy
Actors Bob Hope, Signe Hasso, William Bendix, George Coulouris, Victor Varconi, George Zucco
Roles Gen. Katrina Grimovitch
Rating64% 3.2429653.2429653.2429653.2429653.242965
Hope plays American radio announcer who finds out he is the new king of "Barovia", although a secret society called the Mordia, which assassinated the previous ruler, has other ideas.
A Double Life, 1h44
Directed by George Cukor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about television, Théâtre, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare
Actors Ronald Colman, Signe Hasso, Edmond O'Brien, Shelley Winters, Ray Collins, Millard Mitchell
Roles Brita
Rating69% 3.492863.492863.492863.492863.49286
Celebrated stage actor Anthony John (Ronald Colman) has driven away his actress wife Brita (Signe Hasso) with his erratic temper. However, they star together in the play Othello. Gradually, his portrayal of a jealous murderer undermines his sanity, and he kills his mistress, Pat Kroll (Shelley Winters).
A Scandal in Paris, 1h40
Directed by Douglas Sirk
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy, Adventure, Historical, Crime, Romance
Themes Heist films
Actors George Sanders, Signe Hasso, Carole Landis, Akim Tamiroff, Gene Lockhart, Alma Kruger
Roles Therese De Pierremont
Rating65% 3.2930853.2930853.2930853.2930853.293085
The rogue (George Sanders) who would later call himself Eugène François Vidocq is born in a prison cell, the twelfth child of a woman who steals a loaf of bread each time she needs shelter to give birth. As the boy grows into a man, he is constantly in and out of jail. As the story begins, he and his cutpurse cellmate and associate, Emile Vernet (Akim Tamiroff), escape using a file hidden in a birthday cake provided by Vernet's aunt Ernestine.
Strange Triangle, 1h5
Directed by Ray McCarey
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Noir, Crime
Actors Signe Hasso, Preston Foster, Shepperd Strudwick, Roy Roberts, Emory Parnell, Frank Wilcox
Roles Francine Huber aka Mathews
Rating61% 3.0573753.0573753.0573753.0573753.057375
A bank examiner becomes involved with a couple planning embezzlement, which leads them to murder.
The House on 92nd Street, 1h28
Directed by Henry Hathaway
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Documentary, Action, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films, Political films, Children's films
Actors William Eythe, Lloyd Nolan, Signe Hasso, Gene Lockhart, Leo G. Carroll, Harry Bellaver
Roles Elsa Gebhardt
Rating65% 3.2971553.2971553.2971553.2971553.297155
In 1939, American standout university student Bill Dietrich (William Eythe) is approached by Nazi recruiters due to his German heritage. He feigns interest, then notifies the FBI. FBI agent George Briggs (Lloyd Nolan) tells him to play along.