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Hugo Haas is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and Additional Dialogue Tchèque born on 18 february 1901 at Brno (Republique tcheque)

Hugo Haas

Hugo Haas
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Nationality Republique tcheque
Birth 18 february 1901 at Brno (Republique tcheque)
Death 1 december 1968 (at 67 years) at Vienna (Austria)

Hugo Haas (18 February 1901 – 1 December 1968) was a Czech film actor, director and writer. He appeared in more than 60 films between 1926 and 1962, as well as directing 20 films between 1933 and 1962.

He was born in Brno, Austria-Hungary (now in the Czech Republic), and died in Vienna, Austria from complications of asthma. His brother Pavel Haas was a noted composer who died at Auschwitz in 1944.

Haas began acting as a character actor in American films during the mid-1940s. In 1951 he launched a successful if unacclaimed career as a film director in Hollywood with a string of B movie melodramas, usually starring blonde actresses in the role of a predatory mantrap. Haas usually cast himself as the male lead in the films although the female role almost always dominated the storyline and was usually exclusively promoted on film posters. His work also includes a touching human drama, The Girl on the Bridge (1951) - which he cowrote, directed and starred in - about a kindly watchmaker who after having lost his wife and family in the Holocaust, befriends, marries, and raises a second family with a young woman he saves from suicide.

Cleo Moore starred in seven films for Haas, becoming a well-known film star in that era. Other actresses who starred in Haas' films were Beverly Michaels and Carol Morris. The Haas pictures generally received poor reviews but were for the most part commercially successful, and on occasion featured such well-known names as Eleanor Parker, John Agar, Vince Edwards, Joan Blondell, Agnes Moorehead, Julie London, Corinne Griffith, and Marie Windsor. Haas' final film, Paradise Alley was rejected by the major studios and sat unreleased for over three years, finally surfacing in a limited run in 1962.

Biography

Comme acteur, Hugo Haas débute au cinéma (ainsi qu'au théâtre) dans son pays natal et contribue à trente films tchèques (les deux premiers muets) de 1925 à 1939 (le dernier sorti en 1941). À la suite de l'Anschluss en 1938, il parvient à fuir le nazisme l'année suivante et, après un passage par la France, l'Espagne et le Portugal, se réfugie aux États-Unis en 1940 — son frère aîné, le compositeur Pavel Haas (1899-1944), n'a pas cette chance et meurt en camp de concentration —.

Hormis un film français tourné en 1940, mais sorti seulement en 1945 (Documents secrets de Léo Joannon, avec Marie Déa), Hugo Haas poursuit sa carrière d'acteur dans son pays d'adoption, avec trente-six films américains (dont des westerns), sortis de 1944 à 1962, année où il se retire et regagne l'Europe. Mentionnons L'Aveu de Douglas Sirk (1944, avec Linda Darnell et George Sanders), Le Bagarreur du Kentucky de George Waggner (1949, avec John Wayne) et Les Mines du roi Salomon de Compton Bennett et Andrew Marton (version de 1950, avec Deborah Kerr et Stewart Granger).

Toujours aux États-Unis, il apparaît à la télévision dans six séries, entre 1949 et 1960 (notamment Bonanza et Aventures dans les îles). De plus, il joue au théâtre à Broadway, où il collabore à deux pièces en 1942 (dont R. U. R. de son compatriote Karel Čapek), puis à une comédie musicale en 1948.

Durant sa carrière, Hugo Haas est également producteur de treize films, le premier tchèque sorti en 1937, les douze suivants américains, sortis de 1951 à 1962.

Comme réalisateur, on lui doit six films tchèques de 1933 à 1939, quatorze films américains de 1951 à 1962, un épisode d'une série en 1956 (Le Choix de...) et deux épisodes d'une autre série en 1957.

Enfin, comme scénariste, Hugo Haas participe à treize films tchèques de 1933 à 1939 (le dernier sorti en 1941) et, exception notable, au film français Le Mari rêvé de Roger Capellani (1936, avec Pierre Brasseur et Arletty), dont la musique est cosignée par son frère Pavel. Puis il contribue à l'écriture de douze films américains de 1951 à 1962 (il en est aussi producteur et réalisateur).

Best films

King Solomon's Mines (1950)
(Actor)

Usually with

Martin Frič
Martin Frič
(12 films)
Cleo Moore
Cleo Moore
(6 films)
Paul Ivano
Paul Ivano
(6 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Hugo Haas (53 films)

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Actor

Born to Be Loved, 1h22
Directed by Hugo Haas
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Barbara Jo Allen, Hugo Haas, Jacqueline Fontaine
Roles Prof. Brauner
Rating58% 2.920792.920792.920792.920792.92079
Hit and Run
Directed by Hugo Haas
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Cleo Moore, Vince Edwards, Hugo Haas, Carl Milletaire, Julie Mitchum, John Zaremba
Roles Gus Hilmer / Twin Brother
Rating62% 3.1368653.1368653.1368653.1368653.136865
Gus Hilmer, a garage owner, falls in love with and marries a showgirl named Julie, who's many years younger than him, and this causes tension between Hilmer and Frankie, a young mechanic who he has befriended.
Lizzie
Lizzie (1957)
, 1h21
Directed by Hugo Haas
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about psychiatry
Actors Eleanor Parker, Richard Boone, Joan Blondell, Hugo Haas, Ric Roman, Dorothy Arnold
Roles Walter Brenner
Rating63% 3.1510553.1510553.1510553.1510553.151055
Elizabeth has recurring headaches and is plagued with insomnia. She is receiving letters from a woman called Lizzie, but Elizabeth can't remember knowing anyone named Lizzie. When Elizabeth is under hypnosis, her psychiatrist, Dr. Wright, discovers Elizabeth has three personalities: The shy Elizabeth, the Mr. Hyde-like Lizzie, and the kind, well-adjusted Beth, the woman she always should have been. It is up to Dr. Wright to help Elizabeth to become Beth completely.
The Other Woman, 1h21
Directed by Hugo Haas
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Actors Hugo Haas, Cleo Moore, John Qualen, Lance Fuller, Lucille Barkley
Roles Walter Darman
Rating64% 3.228893.228893.228893.228893.22889
Emigre director is blackmailed by actress he refuses to cast in a film.
Bait
Bait (1954)
, 1h19
Directed by Hugo Haas
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Cleo Moore, Hugo Haas, John Agar, Emmett Lynn, Bruno VeSota, George Keymas
Roles Marco
Rating58% 2.9477352.9477352.9477352.9477352.947735
Middle-aged Marko (Haas) is searching for a lost gold mine for nearly 20 years. To share expenses for a prospecting expedition he teams up with bright young Ray Brighton (Agar). When they find the mine Marko decides he doesn't want to share with his partner and plans to murder him. He figures that after the two of them spend the winter together with Marko's trashy young wife (Moore) in a shack far from civilization, he will sooner or later catch them in adultery, and he can use the "unwritten law" to kill Brighton and thus escape punishment from the law. But the plot backfires.
One Girl's Confession, 1h14
Directed by Hugo Haas
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Cleo Moore, Hugo Haas, Burt Mustin, Russ Conway, Glenn Langan, Gayne Whitman
Roles Dragomie Damitrof
Rating63% 3.1938653.1938653.1938653.1938653.193865
Mary Adams (Cleo Moore) is a waitress in a waterfront bar run by a man who had swindled her father years before. One night, she climbs in the man's bedroom window and steals $25,000 from under his pillow. The police arrive the next morning and, to escape pursuit and reprisal of the bar-owner, she confesses her crime. When The money is not recovered, Mary is sent to prison for five years, but earns early release for good behavior. While on parole, she gets another waterfront waitressing job. Dragomie Damitrof (Hugo Haas), the owner of this bar, is a foreign scoundrel father-figure type. Mary believes that she is being watched by the authorities still trying to recover the money, and is somewhat un-trusting of everyone.
Strange Fascination, 1h20
Directed by Hugo Haas
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Cleo Moore, Hugo Haas, Mona Barrie, Rick Vallin, Karen Sharpe, Gayne Whitman
Roles Paul Marvan
Rating60% 3.043613.043613.043613.043613.04361
The life of Paul Marvan (Haas), a world-famous concert pianist, is ruined after his marriage to beautiful femme fatale Margo (Moore).
The Girl on the Bridge, 1h16
Directed by Hugo Haas
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Actors Hugo Haas, Beverly Michaels, Al Hill
Roles David Toman
Rating67% 3.3670553.3670553.3670553.3670553.367055
A kindly elderly watchmaker, who lost his own family in the holocaust, sees a beautiful young blonde on a bridge and prevents her from committing suicide. They marry and live happily until a man from her past attempts to blackmail her.
Pickup
Pickup (1951)
, 1h18
Directed by Hugo Haas
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Hugo Haas, Beverly Michaels, Murvyn Vye, Howland Chamberlain, Bernard Gorcey
Roles Jan 'Hunky' Horak
Rating66% 3.339163.339163.339163.339163.33916
Low-budget, and showing it, Pickup contains a plot that is similar to that of The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), but according to Larry Langman "a poor man's version".
Vendetta
Vendetta (1950)
, 1h23
Directed by Max Ophüls, Howard Hughes, Jr., Mel Ferrer, Preston Sturges, Stuart Heisler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Faith Domergue, George Dolenz, Donald Buka, Joseph Calleia, Robert Warwick, Hugo Haas
Roles Brando, a bandit
Rating60% 3.002493.002493.002493.002493.00249
In 1825, in the village of Pietranera in French-controlled Corsica, hot-blooded maiden Colomba della Rabia (Faith Domergue) wants her brother Orso (George Dolenz) to avenge the murder of their father by the powerful Barracini family. Despite being a lieutenant, Orso is a man of peace and reason who opposes the Corsican practice of vendetta and revenge; he is more interested in courting the beautiful English aristocrat, Lydia Nevil (Hillary Brooke), who is vacationing on the island with her father, Col. Sir Thomas Nevil (Nigel Bruce).
King Solomon's Mines, 1h43
Directed by Andrew Marton, Compton Bennett
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Deborah Kerr, Stewart Granger, Richard Carlson, Lowell Gilmore, Hugo Haas, John Banner
Roles Van Brun
Rating67% 3.3968853.3968853.3968853.3968853.396885
Allan Quatermain (Stewart Granger), an experienced hunter and guide, reluctantly agrees to help Elizabeth Curtis (Deborah Kerr) and her brother John Goode (Richard Carlson) search for her husband, who disappeared in the unexplored African interior while searching for the legendary mines. They have a copy of the map he used. A tall, mysterious native, Umbopa (Siriaque), joins the safari. Quartermain has no use for women on a safari, but during the long and grueling journey, they begin falling in love.
The Fighting Kentuckian, 1h40
Directed by George Waggner
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Romance, Western
Actors John Wayne, Oliver Hardy, Vera Ralston, Philip Dorn, Marie Windsor, John Howard
Roles Gen. Paul De Marchand
Rating63% 3.196043.196043.196043.196043.19604
John Breen, a Kentucky militiaman, falls in love with French exile Fleurette De Marchand (Vera Ralston). He discovers a plot to steal the land that Fleurette's exiles plan to settle on. Throughout the film, Breen's soldiers sing:
For the Love of Mary, 1h30
Directed by Frederick de Cordova
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Deanna Durbin, Edmond O'Brien, Don Taylor, Jeffrey Lynn, Ray Collins, Hugo Haas
Roles Gustav Heindel
Rating65% 3.289383.289383.289383.289383.28938
Mary Peppertree (Deanna Durbin) starts a new job as a telephone operator at the White House, where her father Timothy has been working as a guard for many years. A former Supreme Court telephone operator, Mary takes her first call from David Paxton (Don Taylor), a fishing expert who insists on speaking to the President about a political issue involving a small Pacific island. After hanging up on him twice, Mary spends the rest of her day fielding calls from various Supreme Court justices who attempt to reconcile her with her former fiancé, Phillip Manning (Jeffrey Lynn), a Justice Department attorney.
Casbah
Casbah (1948)
, 1h34
Directed by John Berry
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Crime, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Yvonne De Carlo, Tony Martin, Peter Lorre, Märta Torén, Hugo Haas, Thomas Gomez
Roles Omar
Rating59% 2.9988452.9988452.9988452.9988452.998845
Casbah is a musical remake of the 1938 film Algiers, which was in turn an American English-language remake of the 1936 French film Pépé le Moko. The plot, which follows that of the 1938 film rather faithfully, deals with Pépé le Moko (Tony Martin), who leads a gang of jewel thieves in the Casbah of Algiers, where he has exiled himself to escape imprisonment in his native France. Inez (Yvonne De Carlo), his girl friend, is infuriated when Pépé flirts with Gaby (Marta Toren), a French visitor, but Pépé tells her to mind her own business. Detective Slimane (Peter Lorre) is trying to lure Pépé out of the Casbah so he can be jailed. Against Slimane's advice, Police Chief Louvain (Thomas Gomez) captures Pépé in a dragnet, but his followers free him. Inez realizes that Pépé has fallen in love with Gaby and intends to follow her to Europe. Slimane knows the same and uses her as the bait to lure Pépé out of the Casbah.