Einar Hanson

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Einar Hanson also known as Einar Hansen (June 15, 1899 in Stockholm, Sweden - June 03, 1927 in Santa Monica, California) was a silent motion-picture actor.

[edit] 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 protegée Greta Garbo, Hansen starred opposite some of the era's leading ladies, including Pola Negri and Corinne Griffith.

Destined for even bigger and better things at Paramount, who had bought his original five-years contract from Universal, Hansen, who showed great progress opposite Clara Bow and Esther Ralston in 1927's Children of Divorce, was on his way home from having dinner with Stiller and Garbo when his car apparently skidded off the road on Pacific Coast highway near Topanga Canyon and died on the way to the hospital.