Hans Joby

Hans Joby

Born: August 3, 1884
Died: May 1, 1943
Hans Joby was born on August 3, 1884 in Kronstadt (Brasso), Austria-Hungary [now Brasov, Romania]. He was an actor, known for The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927), Death in the Air (1936) and A Dog of the Regiment (1927). He died on May 1, 1943 in Los Angeles, California.

Movies for Hans Joby...

Once Upon a Honeymoon
Title: Once Upon a Honeymoon
Character: Kleinoch's Driver (uncredited)
Released: November 27, 1942
Type: Movie
A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.
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Man Hunt
Title: Man Hunt
Released: June 13, 1941
Type: Movie
Shortly before the start of WW2, renown British big-game hunter Thorndike vacationing in Bavaria has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by Nazi agents and aided by a young woman.
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Bitter Sweet
Title: Bitter Sweet
Character: Third Man on Stairs (uncredited)
Released: November 8, 1940
Type: Movie
In order to avoid an arranged marriage with a man she doesn't love, Sarah Millick runs off to Vienna with her music teacher, Carl Linden, whom she does love. They are married. In Vienna, they struggle to make a living by making music. Carl writes an operetta and tries to get it produced. They are helped along by Viennese Baron, but his intentions are not honorable. He kills Carl in a sword fight. A big producer does put on the operetta, with Sari in the lead -- but without her husband, it is a bittersweet victory.
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Escape
Title: Escape
Character: Second Passport Official (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1940
Type: Movie
An American goes to pre-war Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of an American-born widowed countess he seeks to engineer her escape.
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Ninotchka
Title: Ninotchka
Character: Man at Railroad Station (uncredited)
Released: November 23, 1939
Type: Movie
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
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Hitler: Beast of Berlin
Title: Hitler: Beast of Berlin
Character: Hermann Lippert
Released: October 7, 1939
Type: Movie
Hans Memling, a young intellectual, patriotic German, is secretly opposed to the Nazi regime. With the aid of Gustav Schultz, Father Pommer, Anna Wahl and others, he is gleaning accurate information from foreign radio broadcasts and distributing it through Germany with an underground-press operation.
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Thunder Afloat
Title: Thunder Afloat
Character: U-Boat Petty Officer
Released: September 15, 1939
Type: Movie
A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.
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Bridal Suite
Title: Bridal Suite
Character: Scienkiewcz - in Shipboard Brawl
Released: May 26, 1939
Type: Movie
A carefree playboy with an aversion to marriage falls for a lass he meets in the French Alps.
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Broadway Serenade
Title: Broadway Serenade
Character: Hans (uncredited)
Released: April 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without a job and feeling a failure.
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It Could Happen to You
Title: It Could Happen to You
Character: Small German
Released: June 28, 1937
Type: Movie
A politically charged story about a man who dabbles in crime, with disastrous results, to gain the capital he needs to purchase a school where immigrants are prepared for American citizenship. The school's European teacher dreams of a fascist America. Based on a story by Nathanael West and Samuel Ornitz, who was one of the Hollywood Ten blacklisted during the McCarthy Era.
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I Met Him in Paris
Title: I Met Him in Paris
Character: Lower Sled Run Tower Control
Released: May 28, 1937
Type: Movie
Kay Denham is off for a fling in Paris, leaving her suitor Berk behind. There, she meets two new suitors, Gene and George. Gene smooth-talks her into a junket to Switzerland, but George (with no illusions about his friend) appoints himself chaperone. Through a series of slapstick winter sports, Kay remains puzzled about George's disapproval of Gene...but there's a reason.
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Pilot X
Title: Pilot X
Character: Lieut. Baron von Guttard
Released: December 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Aircraft are being shot down by a large black plane with a big "X" painted on the wing. The chief suspects are invited for the weekend to an old dark mansion.
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Sons o' Guns
Title: Sons o' Guns
Character: German Prisoner
Released: May 13, 1936
Type: Movie
Broadway star Jimmy Canfield stars in a patriotic show on the great white way during WWI. He plays the heroic soldier, but he is doesn't want to join the Army. To evade some troubles with fellow actress Berenice, he acts like joining the forces going over there, but that turns out to be real. In France he falls in love with a French barmaid and is arrested as spy. He escapes from prison, only to end in the uniform of a German officer leading "his" soldiers in an Allied trap. But being escaped from prison and wearing the enemy's uniform isn't that healthy in wartime.
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Special Agent K-7
Title: Special Agent K-7
Character: Schmidt
Released: May 4, 1936
Type: Movie
Police detective Lanny resents the ongoing interference of the local FBI branch. Hoping to show up the feds, Lanny tackles a baffling espionage case. Things heat up when reporter sweetheart Ollie is framed for murder.
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One Night of Love
Title: One Night of Love
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: July 16, 1934
Type: Movie
Mary Barrett is an aspiring opera singer who is taken under the wings of a famous operatic maestro, Guilio Monterverdi. After spending endless working hours together and arguing, their relationship develops into love. But, jealousy and misunderstandings prevent Mary and Guilio from acknowledging their true feelings.
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Melody in Spring
Title: Melody in Spring
Character: Jailer
Released: April 7, 1934
Type: Movie
It's love at first sight for singer John Craddock and Jane Blodgett who meet while John is seeking a radio job with the "Blodgett Dog Biscuit Hour," and John learns that the sponsor is Jane's father, Warren Blodgett, an avid souvenir and antiques collector. John gets himself in bad with Blodgett when he accidentally ruins a deal in which Blodgett was attempting to acquire a bedpost for his collection. To break up the romance, Blodgett and his wife take Jane to Switzerland, where Blodgett has his heart set on obtaining a jealously-guarded cowbell.
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Fast Workers
Title: Fast Workers
Character: Waiter at Schultz's (Uncredited)
Released: March 10, 1933
Type: Movie
Gunner and Bucker are friends who work as riveters. Whenever Bucker gets the urge to marry, which is often, Gunner will hit on his girl to see if she is true or not. So far, Gunner hasn't failed. But one night, while Gunner is in jail, Bucker meets Mary, a tough dame with a line. He falls for her, and she falls for his money. But Mary is already a gal pal of Gunner, and no two know about the third one. The trouble starts when the triangle is revealed too late.
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Panama Flo
Title: Panama Flo
Character: Pilot
Released: January 19, 1932
Type: Movie
An engineer makes a thieving entertainer work off her debts as a housekeeper at his jungle mining camp.
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Suicide Fleet
Title: Suicide Fleet
Character: Schwartz
Released: November 20, 1931
Type: Movie
Three US sailors aboard a decoy ship fight German U-boats in World War I and try to win Sally who works on the Coney Island midway.
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Hell's Angels
Title: Hell's Angels
Character: Von Schlieben (uncredited)
Released: November 15, 1930
Type: Movie
When World War I breaks out, brothers Roy and Monte Rutledge, each attending Oxford university, enlist with the Royal Flying Corps.
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The Wedding March
Title: The Wedding March
Character: Imperial Guard
Released: October 6, 1928
Type: Movie
A young impoverished aristocrat falls in love with an inn-keeper's daughter, but has to marry money.
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A Dog of the Regiment
Title: A Dog of the Regiment
Character: Eric von Hager (as John Peters)
Released: October 29, 1927
Type: Movie
During World War I, Rin-Tin-Tin finds that he must rescue his master, a fighter pilot, from his wrecked aircraft. He also has to help him escape his rival, who has ordered him shot so he can have the girl they're competing for all to himself.