Hans Olden

{{short description|Austrian actor}}

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| name = Hans Olden

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| birth_date = 30 June 1892

| birth_place = Vienna, Lower Austria
Austro-Hungarian Empire

| death_date = 20 January 1975

| death_place = Franzhausen, Lower Austria
Austria

| othername = Josef Brandl

| occupation = Actor

| yearsactive = 1931 - 1965 (film)

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Hans Olden (1892–1975) was an Austrian stage and film actor. Olden appeared in more than eighty films during his career, mostly in Austria but occasionally also in Germany. He was a supporter of the Austrian Nazi Party, his interest in Nazism pre-dating the Anchluss by some years.Fritsche p.35 After the Second World War Olden appeared in a number of Heimat films.

Selected filmography

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Bibliography

  • Fritsche, Maria. Homemade Men In Postwar Austrian Cinema: Nationhood, Genre and Masculinity. Berghahn Books, 2013.