Dan van Husen

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Dan van Husen
Dan van Husen in 2011
Born(1945-04-30)30 April 1945
Died31 May 2020(2020-05-31) (aged 75)
OccupationActor
Years active1968–2020

Dan van Husen (30 April 1945 – 31 May 2020) was a German actor. He started his career in the 1960s, playing in a number of

Hollywood films, and in 2008 had a role in a Dutch World War 2 movie, Winter in Wartime
.

Early life

Dan van Husen was born in Gummersbach, Germany, on 30 April 1945, the day Adolf Hitler committed suicide in Berlin.[1][2]

Career

He was first discovered by Italian

Schauspielhaus Bochum, directed by Jérôme Savary. He was cast as the bad guy in 90% of his films.[2]

Van Husen was credited for numerous further film appearances such as

, amongst others.

He also worked in German TV series such as

Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei
and many more. He was often cast as a rogue as in the television disaster film Tsunami or in the '80s cult film Ritchy Guitar of Michael Laux, and in the film Cold and Dark directed by Andrew Goth.

In 2001, he worked on

in 2002.

In 2006, he acted in the German television film Karol Woityla directed by Gero von Boehm and in 2007 in Gellert, a motion picture film under the direction of Ayassi with Ken Duken and the German TV crime series SOKO Wismar.

In February/March 2008, he worked on 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, he worked in southern California on the American Western film Scarlet Worm, in the role of the antagonist Heinrich Kley, directed by Michael Fredianelli.

Dan van Husen in 2007

In 2011, he worked on the American film production Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, directed by Jo Kastner, and got invited to the Spaghetti Western Film Festival in Los Angeles on 19 March of that year. He attended the Almería Western Film Festival from 8 to 11 September 2011, and received a lifetime achievement award in the western film genre. He then got invited to the Lund International Fantastic Film Festival in Sweden, from 15 to 24 September 2011. He attended the Cinefest 2011, VIII, and Internationales Festival des deutschen Film-Erbes Hamburg from 12 to 20 November 2011.

Death

Dan van Husen died from COVID-19 in Ilminster, Somerset, England in May 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic in England at age 75.[3]

Selected filmography

Van Husen played in film including:[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "Dan van Husen". filmportal.de (in German). Retrieved 2 June 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d Lorentz, Frank (4 May 2003). "Gummersbacher Dämon des englischen Fußballs". Die Welt (in German). Retrieved 2 June 2020.
  3. ^ "Duitse Oorlogswinter-acteur Dan van Husen (75) overleden". De Telegraaf (in Dutch). 31 May 2020. Retrieved 2 June 2020.

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