Einar Hanson
Einar Hanson (Stockholm, Sweden – June 3, 1927 (aged 27); Santa Monica, California),[1] also known as Einar Hansen, was a Swedish silent film actor.
June 15, 1899;Career
Discovered at Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theatre by director Mauritz Stiller, handsome and sophisticated, he was in 1927 ideally positioned to take over from the late Rudolph Valentino as Hollywood's "great screen lover".
Upon his arrival in Hollywood in 1925, along with Stiller and the director's other protégée Greta Garbo, Hanson starred opposite some of the era's leading ladies, including Pola Negri and Corinne Griffith.
Hanson was destined for even bigger and better things at
Death
On June 3, 1927, Hanson was on his way home from having dinner with Stiller and Garbo when his car apparently skidded off the road on the
Filmography
- Hemsöborna (1919)
- Mälarpirater(1923)
- The Blizzard (1923) based on the Selma Lagerlöf novel Gunnar Hedes saga
- Johan Ulfstjerna (1923)
- 33.333 (1924)
- Life in the Country (1924)
- Fra Piazza del Popolo (1925)
- Rags and Silk (1925)
- 40 Skipper Street (1925)
- Takt, tone og tosser (1925)
- The Joyless Street (1925) directed by G. W. Pabst
- Into Her Kingdom (1926)
- Her Big Night (1926)
- The Lady in Ermine(1927)
- The Masked Woman (1927)
- Fashions for Women (1927)
- Children of Divorce (1927)
- Barbed Wire (1927)
- The Woman on Trial (1927)
References
- ISBN 978-0-8108-2938-1. Retrieved 27 July 2010.
External links
- Einar Hanson at IMDb