Hans Moser as a waiter in a café in Vienna
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Hans Moser (August 6, 1880 – June 19, 1964) was an Austrian actor who, during his long career (from the 1920s up to his death), mainly played in comedy films. August 6 is the 218th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (219th in leap years), with 147 days remaining. ...
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Born Johann Julier in Vienna, Moser very often portrayed the man in the street, typically someone else's subordinate (servant, waiter, porter, shopkeeper, coachman, petty bureaucrat, etc.). Practically always Moser played honest, moral and well-intentioned people who, unable to keep cool and think clearly in crucial situations, get themselves and everyone around them into all kinds of "trouble". As the (often widowed) father of a beautiful daughter he was the stubborn family bully who realizes only at the end of the movie, when all cases of mistaken identity have been cleared up and all secrets are revealed, that he has been terribly wrong all the time. Vienna (German: Wien [viËn]; Slovenian: Dunaj, Hungarian: Bécs, Czech: VÃdeň, Slovak: Viedeň, Romany Vidnya; Croatian and Serbian: BeÄ) is the capital of Austria, and also one of the nine States of Austria. ...
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Strangely, Moser was particularly famous, and adored, for mumbling indistinctly (for comic effect) rather than pronouncing words and sentences clearly, and also for failing to finish his sentences -- facts which, combined with his (moderate) Viennese dialect, make it very hard for non-native speakers to understand what he is saying. The Viennese language is an East Central Austro-Bavarian dialect spoken mostly in the Austrian capital of Vienna. ...
In the periode between 1938 and 1945 Moser had severe problems because of his wife Blanca Hirschler, who was jewish, but he refused to seperate from her and so she fled to Hungary to avoid further problems. After the war the couple lived together again.
In Moser's comedy films, Paul Hörbiger, Theo Lingen, Oskar Sima, and Annie Rosar were some of his congenial partners. However, it should be noted that Moser was also a serious actor, especially on the stage and, towards the end of his life, on television. In many a musical film, Moser can also be heard interpreting a Wienerlied, more likely than not at a Heuriger. Oskar Sima (July 31, 1896 — June 24, 1969) was an Austrian actor who is best remembered for appearing in supporting roles in countless comedy films from the 1930s to the 1960s. ...
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Hans Moser died in Vienna in 1964, aged 84. His continuing popularity can perhaps be seen by the fact that his style of speaking is still being parodied, also by very young entertainers. For the Nintendo 64 emulator, see 1964 (Emulator). ...
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