Hans Horneff

Hans Horneff (ハンス・ホルネフ, Hansu horunefu, March 10, 1917 - April 30, 1995) is a German-born American film actor who appearance in both Japanese and US films. He speaks fluently German and English. Horneff was also a radio host for the CBS News Radio and voice actor for Hanna-Barbera Productions.

Career

He was born in Munich, Germany to Alfred Horneff (1883-1960), a photographer for the Bayerische Staatszeitung and Lina (1892-1963), an elementary school teacher. He had three siblings, Frank (1915-1988), Gabriele (1922-2001) and Louise (1924-2013). Horneff grew up and was educated in Munich, before they immigrated to New York, after he graduated from college in 1941. Interested in stage play, Horneff got a small part in an independently produced Grade-B Western, but his show business career then crumbled due to lack of budgets. In 1940, he became a stage performer until 1942.

In 1944, Horneff moved to Century City, California and became an actor at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer where he played as a Nazi officer in many World War II films, US Cavalry trooper, gangster, US Army personal, news reporter and NATO defense soldier. Thereafter, he became a character actor in both films and television series throughout the 1950s and 1960s. He also did a live commentary as a radio presenter in the CBS News Radio between 1948-1957. In 1958, he married Carla Addison (1923-2006), who was a makeup artist and had two children, Calvin (1960-) & Caroline (1962-). During the early 1960s, the family moved to Tokyo on a vacation when movie producers signed him up as a foreigner character for each movie studios like Toho and Toei from 1961 to 1969.

After returning to America in 1969, he worked at Hanna Barbera Production as a character voice actor. Horneff retired from acting in 1986 and continued to live his normal life with his family. He passed away in 1995 from liver cancer in New York at the age of 76.

Films

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