Hans Schumm appeared in 15 TV productions and several stage productions, including one on Broadway.
18 Facts About Hans Schumm
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Hans Schumm visited New York again, arriving November 30,1926, and performed with a German stock company in Milwaukee and Chicago.
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Hans Schumm returned a third time to New York, arriving August 26,1929, to work in German-language theater as a permanent United States resident.
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Hans Schumm's arrival was sixty-four days after the Great Crash of 1929 on Wall Street.
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Shortly after arriving, until about 1931, Hans Schumm lived at 160 Wadsworth Avenue, Washington Heights, a neighborhood in the most northern part of Manhattan, New York.
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Hans Schumm debuted in cinema in 1933 as an uncredited bit part actor in The Song of Songs, starring Marlene Dietrich.
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In Los Angeles, in 1939, Hans Schumm became one of 60 or more initial members who formed The Continental Players, a short-lived theater company spearheaded by film executives in support of exiled Jewish from Germany and Austria.
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When Hans Schumm was drafted under the US Selective Service System, he became a conscientious objector.
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Magers pointed out that Hans Schumm's career received a considerable boost in the early 1940s when German-born actors were sought, particularly for roles in anti-Nazi films portraying members of the Wehrmacht and SS.
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Hans Schumm played a character role in the 1943 film, Hangmen.
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Hans Schumm returned to Hollywood and finished his acting career in 1970.
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Hans Schumm was born April 2,1896, in Stuttgart, Germany, to Friedrich Hans Schumm and Petronella Jehle.
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Hans Schumm was one of the architects of the original plan for Cathedral of St John the Divine, including the Romanesque Revival apse.
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Gloria Hans Schumm filed for divorce late September 1943 in Los Angeles County.
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Gloria and Hans Schumm then remarried August 21,1947, after Gloria realized that she was pregnant from, she claimed, actor Wallace Beery, which Beery denied.
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Hans Schumm applied to become a naturalized citizen of the United States on November 13,1940, in Los Angeles, and was admitted as a citizen February 14,1941.
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Hans Schumm was dead on arrival at Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Los Angeles from heart failure after being stricken at the Hollywood nursing home where he had been living.
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Hans Schumm's body was cremated with his ashes buried in the actors' rose garden at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.