Dan van Husen
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Dan van Husen is a German actor who has also performed in Hollywood films.
. He has appeared in twenty Italo Westerns in six or seven years and then he branched out to diverse roles and genres. He participated in the years 1968-1974 in more than 24 Italo Western, among others directed by Sergio Corbucci
, Sergio Martino
, Enzo G. Castellari
etc. Involved in 1977 in the play Courage at the Schauspielhaus Bochum,Germany , directed by Jérôme Savary
.
Numerous film appearances as in Fellini Casanova, by Federico Fellini
, in Salon Kitty
by Tinto Brass
and Nosferatu the Vampyre directed by Werner Herzog
, among others.
Dan van Husen has also worked in German TV series among others Der Alte
, Derrick
, Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei and many more. He has often been cast as a rogue as in the television disaster film Tsunami or in the 80's-year cult film Ritchy Guitar of Michael Laux, and in the film Cold and Dark directed by Andrew Goth
In 2001 he worked on Band of Brothers a Steven Spielberg
Production, Perfect Strangers (BBC TV series)
directed by Stephen Poliakoff
and in Enemy at the Gates
directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud
as well as Hart's War
directed by Gregory Hoblit
in 2002
In 2006, he acted in the German television film Karol Woityla directed by Gero von Boehm and in 2007 so far in Gellert, a motion picture film under the direction of Ayassi with Ken Duken
and the German TV crime series SOKO Wismar, 2007
In February/March 2008 he worked on Oorlogswinter (Winter in Wartime) a Dutch movie based on the hit novel by the same name, written by Jan Terlouw
and directed (and written) by Martin Koolhoven
.
In June and July 2010 worked in South California in the American Western film Scarlet Worm, the role of the Antagonist Heinrich Kley, directed by Michael Fredianelli
2011, worked in the American film production TOM SAWYER AND HUCKLEBERRY FINN , directed by Jo Kastner
invited to the Spaghetti Western Film Festival in Los Angeles on the 19th March 2011
attended the Almeria Western Film Festival from 8th - 11th September 2011 , award given for his life time achievement in the western film genre,
invited then to the Lund International Fantastic Film Festival in Sweden ,the 15th -24th September 2011
attending the Cinefest 2011, VIII. Internationales Festival des deutschen Film-Erbes Hamburg: 12th - 20th November 2011
Currently, lives near London
Career
Dan van Husen was born in GummersbachGummersbach
Gummersbach is a city in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, being the district seat of the Oberbergischer Kreis. It is located 50 km east of Cologne. In the past it was nicknamed "the Lime Tree Town", because lime trees lined the main street...
. He has appeared in twenty Italo Westerns in six or seven years and then he branched out to diverse roles and genres. He participated in the years 1968-1974 in more than 24 Italo Western, among others directed by Sergio Corbucci
Sergio Corbucci
Sergio Corbucci was an Italian film director. He is best known for his very violent yet intelligent spaghetti westerns...
, Sergio Martino
Sergio Martino
Sergio Martino is an Italian film director and producer, notable for his contributions to the giallo genre.Martino is the brother of producer Luciano Martino. They collaborated frequently in their respective professions...
, Enzo G. Castellari
Enzo G. Castellari
Enzo G. Castellari is an Italian film director. He became famous during the 1960s by directing several spaghetti westerns with such titles as Go Kill and Come Back Enzo G. Castellari (born July 29, 1938) is an Italian film director. He became famous during the 1960s by directing several spaghetti...
etc. Involved in 1977 in the play Courage at the Schauspielhaus Bochum,Germany , directed by Jérôme Savary
Jérôme Savary
Jérôme Savary is a French theater director and actor. His work has democratized and widened the appeal of musical theater in France, drawing together and blending such genres as opera, operetta, and musical comedy.- Biography :...
.
Numerous film appearances as in Fellini Casanova, by Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI , was an Italian film director and scriptwriter. Known for a distinct style that blends fantasy and baroque images, he is considered one of the most influential and widely revered filmmakers of the 20th century...
, in Salon Kitty
Salon Kitty
Salon Kitty was a Berlin brothel used by the SD for espionage purposes before and during World War II.In the 1930s Berlin, Salon Kitty was a high-class brothel in 11 Giesebrechtstrasse. Its usual clientele included German dignitaries and foreign diplomats...
by Tinto Brass
Tinto Brass
Giovanni Brass , better known as Tinto Brass, is an Italian filmmaker. He is noted especially for his work in the erotic genre, with films such as Così fan tutte , Paprika, Monella and Trasgredire...
and Nosferatu the Vampyre directed by Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog Stipetić , known as Werner Herzog, is a German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and opera director.He is often considered as one of the greatest figures of the New German Cinema, along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlöndorff, Werner...
, among others.
Dan van Husen has also worked in German TV series among others Der Alte
Der Alte
"Der Alte" is German for "the old man" and can refer to:*the late German politician Konrad Adenauer*Der Alte, a long-running German television series*German physicist Albert Einstein...
, Derrick
Derrick
A derrick is a lifting device composed of one tower, or guyed mast such as a pole which is hinged freely at the bottom. It is controlled by lines powered by some means such as man-hauling or motors, so that the pole can move in all four directions. A line runs up it and over its top with a hook on...
, Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei and many more. He has often been cast as a rogue as in the television disaster film Tsunami or in the 80's-year cult film Ritchy Guitar of Michael Laux, and in the film Cold and Dark directed by Andrew Goth
In 2001 he worked on Band of Brothers a Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg
Steven Allan Spielberg KBE is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur. In a career of more than four decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as an...
Production, Perfect Strangers (BBC TV series)
Perfect Strangers (BBC TV series)
Perfect Strangers is an acclaimed television drama first aired in 2001, produced for BBC Two. It was written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff, and starred Michael Gambon, who won a British Academy Television Award for his performance, Lindsay Duncan, Matthew Macfadyen and Claire Skinner...
directed by Stephen Poliakoff
Stephen Poliakoff
Stephen Poliakoff, CBE, FRSL is an acclaimed British playwright, director and scriptwriter, widely judged amongst Britain's foremost television dramatists.-Early life and career:...
and in Enemy at the Gates
Enemy at the Gates
Enemy at the Gates is a 2001 war film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, starring Joseph Fiennes, Jude Law, Rachel Weisz, Bob Hoskins and Ed Harris set during the Battle of Stalingrad in World War II....
directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Jean-Jacques Annaud is a French film director, film producer and screenwriter.- Biography :Annaud was born in Juvisy-sur-Orge, Essonne...
as well as Hart's War
Hart's War
Hart's War is a 2002 film about a World War II prisoner of war based on the novel by John Katzenbach starring Bruce Willis, Colin Farrell, Terrence Howard and Marcel Iureş...
directed by Gregory Hoblit
Gregory Hoblit
Gregory King Hoblit is an American Hollywood film director and TV producer.Hoblit was born in Abilene, Texas, the son of Elizabeth Hubbard King and Harold Foster Hoblit, an FBI agent. Much of Hoblit's work is oriented towards police, attorneys, and legal cases...
in 2002
In 2006, he acted in the German television film Karol Woityla directed by Gero von Boehm and in 2007 so far in Gellert, a motion picture film under the direction of Ayassi with Ken Duken
Ken Duken
Ken Duken is a German actor.Ken Duken is the third child of film and stage actress Christina Loeb; his father is a doctor. Duken never attended a drama school but took courses in drama, including under James Reynold...
and the German TV crime series SOKO Wismar, 2007
In February/March 2008 he worked on Oorlogswinter (Winter in Wartime) a Dutch movie based on the hit novel by the same name, written by Jan Terlouw
Jan Terlouw
Jan Cornelis Terlouw is a Dutch scientist, politician, and author.- Background :Jan Terlouw was born in Kamperveen, Overijssel. He was the eldest son in his family, he has two brothers and two sisters and grew up in the Veluwe...
and directed (and written) by Martin Koolhoven
Martin Koolhoven
Martin Koolhoven is a Dutch film director and screenwriter.Born as Martinus Wouter Koolhoven, Koolhoven graduated from Dutch film school in 1996 and almost immediately made an impact on the Dutch film industry with his 53 minute television film Duister Licht in which the slaughtering of a pig was...
.
In June and July 2010 worked in South California in the American Western film Scarlet Worm, the role of the Antagonist Heinrich Kley, directed by Michael Fredianelli
2011, worked in the American film production TOM SAWYER AND HUCKLEBERRY FINN , directed by Jo Kastner
invited to the Spaghetti Western Film Festival in Los Angeles on the 19th March 2011
attended the Almeria Western Film Festival from 8th - 11th September 2011 , award given for his life time achievement in the western film genre,
invited then to the Lund International Fantastic Film Festival in Sweden ,the 15th -24th September 2011
attending the Cinefest 2011, VIII. Internationales Festival des deutschen Film-Erbes Hamburg: 12th - 20th November 2011
Currently, lives near London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
Selected filmography
- Sons of SatanSons of SatanSons of Satan is a 1968 Italian crime film directed by Duccio Tessari and starring Rita Hayworth.-Cast:* Rita Hayworth - Martha* Giuliano Gemma - Jason* Klaus Kinski - Adam* Margaret Lee - Karen* Claudine Auger - Barbara* Serge Marquand - Jimmy...
(1968) - Salon KittySalon KittySalon Kitty was a Berlin brothel used by the SD for espionage purposes before and during World War II.In the 1930s Berlin, Salon Kitty was a high-class brothel in 11 Giesebrechtstrasse. Its usual clientele included German dignitaries and foreign diplomats...
(1976) - Cipolla Colt (1976)
- Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
- DerrickDerrick (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 6, Episode 6: "Tandem" (1979) - DerrickDerrick (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 7, Episode 4: "Tödliche Sekunden" (1980) - The Sea WolvesThe Sea WolvesThe Sea Wolves is a 1980 war film starring Gregory Peck, Roger Moore and David Niven. The film is based on the book Boarding Party by James Leasor, which itself is based on a real incident which took place in World War II...
(1980) - The Wild Geese II (1985)
- Enemy at the GatesEnemy at the GatesEnemy at the Gates is a 2001 war film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, starring Joseph Fiennes, Jude Law, Rachel Weisz, Bob Hoskins and Ed Harris set during the Battle of Stalingrad in World War II....
(2001) - Hart's WarHart's WarHart's War is a 2002 film about a World War II prisoner of war based on the novel by John Katzenbach starring Bruce Willis, Colin Farrell, Terrence Howard and Marcel Iureş...
(2002) - The Scarlet Worm (2011)
External links
- http://www.vanhusen.com Dan van Husen home page
- Showreel 2006/07