Dan van Husen

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Dan van Husen
Dan van Husen
Born	April 30, 1945 (1945-04-30) (age 63) Gummersbach
Years active	1968—present
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Dan van Husen (born April 30, 1945 in Gummersbach) is a German actor who has also performed in Hollywood movies.

[edit] Career

Dan van Husen 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 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 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 is working 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.

Currently, he divides his time and work between London and Berlin.

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