Hans Jaray


Hans Jaray 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]. 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.

Selected filmography