Richard Häussler(1908-1964)

Character actor and occasional director, first on stage from 1926 in youthful leading roles. In films from 1935, a mainstay of Bavarian Heimatfilms well into the 1950's, often in the role of well-to-do or gentlemanly professional men. Out of character, he played a gangster in the Edgar Wallace thriller Professionisti per una rapina (1964).