Dan van Husen

Actor

April 30, 1945 (75 years)

† May 31, 2020

Gummersbach, Germany

Biography

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 Spaghetti Westerns (usually he was cast as the bad guy), and also performed in Italian and German films by renowned directors including Frederico Fellini and Werner Herzog and in German TV series. Starting in the 2000s he performed in Hollywood films, and in 2008 had a role in a Dutch World War 2 movie, Winter in Wartime. Dan van Husen died from COVID-19 in Ilminster, Somer…

Filmography

6.2

Scene of the Crime

Speedy

Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

6.3

The Old Fox

A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together.

6.1

Derrick

Moersch

Derrick was 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.

6.6

Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police

Hänchen

A long-running German television series about a two-man team of highway police, originally set in Berlin and later in North Rhine-Westphalia.

6.4

SOKO Wismar

Rolle Röber

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8.6

Band of Brothers

Alleged Commandant

Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as their journals and letters, Band of Brothers chronicles the experiences of these men from paratrooper training in Georgia through the end of the war. As an elite rifle company parachuting into Normandy early on D-Day morning, participants in the Battle of the Bulge, and witness to the horrors of war, the men of Easy knew extraordinary bravery and extraordinary fear - and became the stuff of legend. Based on Stephen E. Ambrose's acclaimed book of the same name.

10.0

Polizeiinspektion 1

Gangster

Polizeiinspektion 1 is a German television series.

7.4

Enemy at the Gates

Political Officer

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.

6.5

Auf Achse

Fritz the cat

The adventures of a group of German truckers on jobs all over the world.

7.2

Der Clown

Gangster

Der Clown was a German television series that ran between 21 April 1998 and 11 October 2001. It ran for 46 episodes, and starred Sven Martinek, Diana Frank, Thomas Anzenhofer and Volkmar Kleinert. Der Clown was also a 2005 film.

5.6

Salon Kitty

Rauss

In Nazi Germany, Kitty runs a brothel where the soldiers come to 'relax'. Recording devices have been installed by a power-hungry official who plans to use the information to blackmail and usurp Hitler. One of the girls discovers the ploy and, with the madam's help, takes on the dangerous task of exposing the conspiracy.

7.5

HeliCops - Einsatz über Berlin

Ivan Tarkov

HeliCops – Einsatz über Berlin is a German television series.

6.7

Ein Schloß am Wörthersee

Ein Schloß am Wörthersee is a German television series.

7.2

Brimstone

Coach Driver

In the menacing inferno of the old North-American West, Liz is a genuine survivor who is hunted by a vengeful preacher for a crime she didn’t commit.

7.3

Nosferatu the Vampyre

Warden

A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar.

10.0

Graf Luckner

Lemon

Between the first and second World Wars, we portray glorified and renown naval sea officer Felix Graf von Lucker and his fictitious ship Niobe, which is the 1887 built Amphitrite from Southampton. Von Luckner is famous for his tactical genius in the first World War, especially sinking 14 enemy ships and only losing one crewman, whilst always seeking a peaceful outcome - making him the ideal seaman.

6.7

Hals über Kopf

Bankräuber

Hals über Kopf is a German television series.

6.6

Perfect Strangers

Priest

Daniel Symon comes face to face with his extended family – a cadre of eccentrics, all of whom hiding their own secrets. At a reunion, patriarch Raymond is presented with a copy of the family tree and is enthralled by the complexity of his family ties.

6.0

The Sea Wolves

U-Boat First Officer

A German spy is passing on information about the location of Allied ships in the neutral harbor of Goa, India, with catastrophic results. Unable to undertake a full military operation in the Portuguese stronghold, English intelligence brings out of retirement a crew of geriatric ex-soldiers, veterans from World War I, using their age as cover. These old soldiers are asked to take to the seas and pull off an unlikely undercover mission.

6.2

The Trojan Women

Soldier (uncredited)

In the aftermath of the Trojan Wars, Queen Hecuba takes stock of the defeated kingdom. Her son has been killed, and his widow, Andromache, is left to raise their son, Astyanax, alone. Hecuba's daughter, Cassandra, fears being enslaved by her Greek masters, while Helen of Troy risks being executed. Astyanax also becomes the focus of the Greeks' attention as the last male heir of the Trojan royal family.