Harry Meyen was a German film actor. He appeared in over 40 films and television productions between 1948 and 1975. In the 1960s he worked as a successful theatre director in West Germany

West Germany

West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....

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Meyen was the son of a Jewish familiy in Hamburg

Hamburg

-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

 and was incarcerated during the Nazi regime. He was married to actress Romy Schneider

Romy Schneider

Romy Schneider was an Austrian-born German film actress who also held French citizenship.-Early life:Schneider was born Rosemarie Magdalena Albach in Nazi-era Vienna, six months after the Anschluss, into a family of actors that included her paternal grandmother Rosa Albach-Retty, her Austrian...

 from 1966 to 1975; their son David (1966–1981) died in an accident two years after Meyen's suicide in 1979 in Hamburg.

Selected filmography

• Alraune
  Alraune (1952 film)
  Alraune is a 1952 science fiction horror film directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt and starring Hildegard Knef in which a scientist creates a woman who is beautiful and yet soulless, lacking any sense of morality. It is based upon the German myth of Alraune in which a woman is impregnated by a...
  
  (1952)
• Des Teufels General
  Des Teufels General
  Des Teufels General is a 1946 play written by German author and playwright Carl Zuckmayer, translated as The Devil's General. The title character of the play, General Harras, is based on the ace Ernst Udet. The play is based upon his struggles during the war, simultaneously working under and...
  
  (1955)
• Redhead
  Redhead (film)
  Redhead is a 1962 German-Italian drama film directed by Helmut Käutner. It was entered into the 12th Berlin International Film Festival.-Cast:* Ruth Leuwerik - Franziska Lukas* Rossano Brazzi - Fabio* Giorgio Albertazzi - Patrick O'Malley...
  
  (1962)
• The Curse of the Hidden Vault
  The Curse of the Hidden Vault
  The Curse of the Hidden Vault is a 1964 German crime film directed by Franz Josef Gottlieb and starring Harald Leipnitz.-Cast:* Harald Leipnitz - Jimmy Flynn* Judith Dornys - Kathleen Kent* Rudolf Forster - Real* Werner Peters - Spedding...
  
  (1964)
• Triple Cross (1966)
• Is Paris Burning?
  Is Paris Burning?
  Is Paris Burning? is a 1966 film dealing with the 1944 liberation of Paris by rival branches of the French Resistance and the Free French Forces.-Plot:...
  
  (1966)
• Derrick
  Derrick (TV series)
  Derrick is a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein , who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings Derrick is a...
  
  - Season 2, Episode 10: "Kamillas junger Freund" (1975)
• Derrick - Season 4, Episode 07: "Mord in TEE 91" (1977)

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