Hans Jaray

{{short description|Austrian actor and playwright}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Hans Jaray

| image = Hans jaray.jpg

| imagesize = 190px

| caption = Hans Jaray in 1940

| birth_date = 24 June 1906

| birth_place = Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire

| death_date = {{death date and age|1990|1|6|1906|6|24|df=y}}

| death_place = Vienna, Austria

| othername =

| occupation = Actor

| yearsactive = 1926 - 1978 (film)

}}

Hans Jaray (1906–1990) was an Austrian actor and playwright. He also wrote and directed several television films. Jaray starred as a leading man in a number of 1930s films, such as the Schubert biopic Gently My Songs Entreat (1933).Bergfelder & Cargnell p.130 Jaray emigrated to the United States following the Anchluss of 1938, but returned to Vienna after the Second World War.

The 1934 Czech film Man in Demand on All Sides was based on one of his plays.

In one of his final roles he appeared in the 1977 West German television series Uncle Silas.