Adina Mandlova, Cleo Moore, Pavel Haas, Oldrich Novy, Martin Fric
Hugo Haas - Biografie
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.
Haas 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.
Filmography
Actor
1962
Paradise Alley as
Mr. Agnus
1960
Bonanza (TV Series) as
Zirko
- Dark Star (1960) - Zirko
1960
Adventures in Paradise (TV Series) as
Hugo Zagreb
- Isle of Eden (1960) - Hugo Zagreb
1960
Five Fingers (TV Series) as
Marulic
- The Search for Edvard Stoyan (1960) - Marulic
1959
Born to Be Loved as
Prof. Brauner
1956
Telephone Time (TV Series) as
Rabbi Henry Cohen / Christopher Ludwick
- Rabbi on Wheels (1957) - Rabbi Henry Cohen
- The Gingerbread Man (1956) - Christopher Ludwick
1957
Lizzie as
Walter Brenner
1957
Hit and Run as
Gus Hilmer / Twin Brother
1956
Edge of Hell as
Valentine
1953
The Ford Television Theatre (TV Series) as
Voulard / Antonin Heidrich
- Girl in Flight (1954) - Voulard
- Adventure in Connecticut (1953) - Antonin Heidrich