Harry Hasso was
born in Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 in Frankenthal

Frankenthal

Frankenthal is a town in southwestern Germany, in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate.- History :Frankenthal was first mentioned in 772. In 1119 an Augustinian monastery was built here, the ruins of which — known, after the founder, as the Erkenbertruine — still stand today in the town...

 1904. He worked
in Sweden

Sweden

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 and Germany as a cameraman and
also wrote some of the music and manuscripts for some
of the films he made. He learned to play the violin from gypsies despite being forbidden to visit them by his parents. He started his career in Luxembourg

Luxembourg

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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 have been missing since World War II

World War II

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.
Occasionally he was an actor in some of his films.
He also worked in a circus standing on one hand on a bottle.
He married the Swedish actress Signe Hasso

Signe Hasso

Signe Hasso was a Swedish-born American actress, writer and composer.-Background:Signe Eleonora Cecilia Larsson was born in the Kungsholmen parish of Stockholm, Sweden in 1915...

 in 1933. In 1943 He married the Swedish film actress Viveca Lindfors

Viveca Lindfors

Elsa Viveca Torstensdotter Lindfors , better known under her professional name of Viveca Lindfors, was a Swedish stage and film actress.-Life and career:...

. Both were successful actresses in the United States

United States

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. Signe even made it as a movie star in Hollywood. Harry remarried twice after that. His last wife was the Swedish journalist Britta Hasso with whom he was married from 1961 until his death in 1984. He also worked briefly in Finland and Italy.

Selected filmography

• Maria Johanna (1953) [Cinematographer] [Director] [Actor] [Writer]
• Gula kliniken (1942) [Cinematographer
• Det sägs på stan (1941) [Cinematographer]
• Tänk, om jag gifter mig med prästen (1941) [Cinematographer]
• Pengar från skyn (1938) [Cinematographer]
• House of Silence (1988) ((1933) [Cinematographer] [Actor]

External links

• His private clip book (In Swedish.)
• His grandsons Film Company - (In Swedish.)