Dan van Husen

Dan van Husen
Dan van Husen
Born	April 30, 1945 (1945-04-30) (age 66) Gummersbach
Years active	1968—present
Website
http://www.vanhusen.com

Dan van Husen (born April 30, 1945) is a German actor who has also performed in Hollywood films.

Career

van Husen in March 2011

Dan van Husen was born in Gummersbach. He 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 the Vampyre 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 (BBC TV series) 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 worked 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. In June and July 2010 worked in South California in the American Western film Scarlet Worm, the role of the Antagonist Heinrich Kley, directed by Michael Fredianelli

2011, worked in the American film production TOM SAWYER AND HUCKLEBERRY FINN , directed by Jo Kastner

invited to the Spaghetti Western Film Festival in Los Angeles on the 19th March 2011

attended the Almeria Western Film Festival from 8th - 11th September 2011 , award given for his life time achievement in the western film genre,

invited then to the Lund International Fantastic Film Festival in Sweden ,the 15th -24th September 2011

attending the Cinefest 2011, VIII. Internationales Festival des deutschen Film-Erbes Hamburg: 12th - 20th November 2011

Currently, lives near London

Selected filmography

• Sons of Satan (1968)
• Salon Kitty (1976)
• Cipolla Colt (1976)
• Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
• Derrick - Season 6, Episode 6: "Tandem" (1979)
• Derrick - Season 7, Episode 4: "Tödliche Sekunden" (1980)
• The Sea Wolves (1980)
• The Wild Geese II (1985)
• Enemy at the Gates (2001)
• Hart's War (2002)
• The Scarlet Worm (2011)

External links

• Dan van Husen at the Internet Movie Database
• [1] Dan van Husen home page
• Showreel 2006/07

Persondata
Name	Husen, Dan van
Alternative names
Short description	Actor
Date of birth	1945-4-30
Place of birth	Gummersbach
Date of death
Place of death