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 F i l m P e o p l e H - K
Austrian, German and Swiss Film People in Hollywood (Part 3 - H-K)
Also see > An Introduction to how these people are selected
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Brigitte Helm (1908-1996)
German actress made famous by her robot role in Fritz Lang's Metropolis.
Paul Henreid (Paul George Julius von Hernried, 1908-1992)
Austrian-American actor, director (TV). Best-known as Ingrid Bergman's suave, crusading husband in Casablanca.
“Herbie” the Volkswagen
Herbie first appeared in The Love Bug in 1969. His latest appearance is in Herbie - Fully Loaded. More: Volkswagen aka “Herbie”.
Werner Richard Heymann (1896-1950)
German film music composer who came to the US in 1933 after fleeing Nazi Germany. Heymann had worked at UFA since 1925 before coming to Hollywood. He returned to Germany in the 1950s. Some of his films: Ninotchka (1939), The Shop Around the Corner (1940), To Be or Not to Be (1942).
Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980)
British-American director. The famous master of the surprise ending got his start as a designer of silent film intertitles for the London branch of Paramount. After assisting other directors, in 1925 Hitchcock directed an Anglo-German film in Munich called The Pleasure Garden. - Learn more about Alfred Hitchcock in Germany.
Michael Hoenig (1952- )
German film music composer born in Hamburg. Films: Koyaanisqatsi (1983), The Blob (1988), I, Madman (1989).
Frederick Hollander (Friedrich Holländer, 1896-1976)
German film music composer (The Blue Angel, Foreign Affair, Sabrina). Marlene Dietrich was fond of his songs.
Oskar Homolka (1898-1978)
Austrian actor. Born in Vienna, Homolka studied there and appeared on the stage in Vienna, Graz, Munich, and Berlin. After a film career in Germany, Homolka went to England in 1935, where he made Sabotage (1936) with Alfred Hitchcock (above). In 1937 Homolka began the US phase of his long career, appearing in Hollywood films and Broadway stage productions. After the war he lived in both England and the US. His films include classics such as: I Remember Mama (1948), The Seven Year Itch (1955), A Farewell to Arms (1957), and Boys Night Out (1962). Homolka also appeared in numerous TV productions.
Paul Hubschmid (1917-2001)
Swiss actor who appeared in several Hollywood/UK films under the name Paul Christian — most notably with Michael Caine in Funeral in Berlin (1966). Hubschmid was born in Aarau, Switzerland. He studied acting in Vienna and appeared in many German film, TV and stage productions, including the German version of "My Fair Lady." He died in Berlin at the age of 84. His Hollywood films include Bagdad (1949), No Time for Flowers (1952) and The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953).
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Emil Jannings (Theodor Friedrich Emil Janenz, 1884-1950)
Swiss-born actor (raised in Germany) who won the very first Academy Award for Best Actor in the two US silents The Way of All Flesh (1927) and The Last Command (1928). His heavy German accent put a halt to any US sound-film career after he played a teacher of English in both the German and English versions of The Blue Angel (1930) with Marlene Dietrich. Jannings died lonely, bitter and disgraced as a Nazi supporter just five years after WWII ended. More...
Curd Jürgens (1915-1982)
German/Austrian actor born in Solln near Munich. After WWII he became an Austrian citizen. Known as Curt Jurgens in the English-speaking world, he started out as a journalist before becoming a stage
Curd Jürgens in an old German film on TV.
and screen actor. He spent much of his early stage career in Vienna, and he also returned there in the 1960s and '70s. His rising career came to a sudden halt in 1944 when he was sent to a Nazi concentration camp for “political unreliables.” Jürgens survived the ordeal and went on to become a well-known star all over the world. His breakthrough screen role is considered to be Des Teufels General (1955, The Devil's General). When he wasn't in a studio or on location, Jürgens lived in France. His first Hollywood film was the 1957 submarine adventure The Enemy Below. His other UK/US films include: The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958), The Longest Day (1962), The Miracle of the White Stallions (1963), Lord Jim (1964), and The Mephisto Waltz (1971). The actor also made occasional television appearances in the US and elsewhere. Married five times, Jürgens entitled his 1975 autobiography Sixty and Not Yet Wise. He was laid to rest in a memorial grave in Vienna's Central Cemetery (Zentralfriedhof).
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Anton Karas (1906-1985)
Austrian musician and composer (The Third Man).
Klaus Kinski (Claus Günther Nakszynski, 1926-1991)
German actor (Doctor Zhivago, For a Few Dollars More, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Buddy Buddy, Fitzcarraldo, Venom, The Little Drummer Girl). At his death in 1991, Kinski had appeared in more than 125 European and American movies. He was the father of Nastassja Kinski (below), but they were far from close.
Nastassja Kinski (Nastassja Nakszynski, 1960- )
German actress, daughter of Klaus Kinski (above). After appearing in several European productions, Nastassja began her Hollywood career with Tess in 1979. She has also starred in: Cat People (1982), The Hotel New Hampshire (1984), Paris, Texas (1984), Far Away, So Close (German, 1993), Terminal Velocity (1994) and Fathers Day (1997). You may also have seen her in TV commercials for L'oreal and “Got milk?” More on our Nastassja Kinski page.
Werner Klemperer (1920- )
German actor born in Cologne. His father was orchestra conductor Otto Klemperer. Although he appeared in a number of Hollywood films, Klemperer was best known for his TV work. He twice won an Emmy for his bumbling Nazi Colonel Klink in the popular “Hogan's Heroes” TV series (1965-71) — an ironic role for a man who fled the Nazis in 1933 and served in the US Army during World War II. His films include: Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), Ship of Fools (1965) and The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz (1968).
Fritz Kortner (1892-1970)
Austrian actor, director. The Vienna-born Kortner was best known for his stage work in the Berlin theater world, but he had also done some film work – both as actor and director – before fleeing Nazi-controlled Germany for England and then America. After being active on Broadway and in Hollywood, Kortner returned to Germany in 1947. Some of his US films (as actor): The Hitler Gang (1944), Somewhere in the Night (1946), The Razor's Edge (1946), and Berlin Express (1948). Kortner also wrote the screenplay for The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler (1943).
Henry Koster (Hermann Kosterlitz, 1905- )
German director. Following a varied career, Koster worked in the German film industry from 1925 until he went to Hollywood via France. From 1936 on he directed such popular American films as Harvey (1950), The Robe (1953, the first CinemaScope movie), D-Day the Sixth of June (1956), Flower Drum Song (1961), and The Singing Nun (1966).
Siegfried Kracauer (1889-1966)
German-American film historian, sociologist and author, best known for his 1947 book From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film. His Theory of Film (1960) was Kracauer's second influential, if also controversial, work. Born in Germany, the former editor of a Frankfurt newspaper and German film critic came to America in 1941. His studies concentrated on how cinema both influences and is influenced by social and economic conditions.
Hardy Krüger (Franz Eberhard August Krüger, 1928- )
German actor born in Berlin. Films: Hatari, The Flight of the Phoenix, A Bridge Too Far, War and Remembrance (1989, TV mini-series).
WEB LINK > Hardy Krüger at IMDb
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