Harry Hasso

Harry Hasso (Born as Karl Hartnagel) was born in Germany in Frankenthal 1904. He worked in Sweden and Germany as a cameraman and also he wrote some music and also manuscript for some of the films he made. He played violin himself and was taught by gypseys on how to do it even though his parents told him not to go and see those people. He started his career in Luxemburg after finishing school. He made many movies and at least 100 documentary films among them films about his home Country and home town. Sadly all the documentaries he made is missing since after world war II.
Occasional he acted himself in some films. Also he did work in a circus standing on one hand on a bottle.
He married the Swedish actress Signe Hasso in 1933. In 1943 He married the Swedish film actress Viveca Lindfors. Both of them where successful actresses in USA. Signe made it even to be a movie star in Hollywood.Harry remarried twice after that. The last wife he had was the Swedish journalist Britta Hasso with whom he was married with from 1962 to his death in 1984.He worked also briefly in Finland and Italy.
 
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