Hans Schumm

On stage and in film, he is credited as Hans Josef Schumm or simply Hans Schumm; but in seven films, he is credited under the pseudonym André Pola — three in 1948, one in 1949, one in 1954, and one 1956. In his private life, he was known as Joseph Schumm and Johann J.E.

• Name — Hans Josef Schumm • Born — 2 April 1896 • Birthplace — Stuttgart, German Empire • Died — 2 February 1990 • Place of death — Los Angeles, U.S. • Other Names — Andre Pola (film pseudonym in 1948, 1949, 1954, and 1956) • Citizenship — German (1896–1941) U.S. (1941–1990) • Occupation — Stage and Hollywood film actor • Years Active — 1925–1970 • Employer — 20th Century Pictures (2) Charles Chaplin (2) Columbia (13) De Grunwald (2) MGM (9) Monogram (2) Paramount (8) Arnold Pressburger (1) 1st Motion Picture Unit (US Army AF) (1) Republic (3) RKO (6) Samuel Goldwyn (2) Terra-Filmkunst (1) Twentieth Century Fox (8) Universal (6) Revue (Universal) (3) Warner Bros. (13) Ziv Television (1) • Agent — Paul Kohner Agency • Style — Character actor • Height — 6 ft 0 in

Schumm was born April 2, 1896, in Stuttgart, Germany. Schumm served in the German Army during World War I. While living in Stuttgart, Schumm first visited New York as a merchant at age, arriving January 1, 1924. There are at least two attributions for his acting debut, one in 1925 in Meissen, Germany, and one around 1925 in Stuttgart, performing in The Merchant of Venice with Staatstheater Stuttgart. Schumm visited New York again, arriving November 30, 1926, and performed with a German stock company in Milwaukee and Chicago.

Schumm returned a third time to New York, arriving August 26, 1929, to work in German-language theater as a permanent United States resident. The timing of Schumm's 1929 arrival was before Hitler's seizure of power on January 30, 1933. Germany had been in the throes of severe economic duress from post World War I, which included hyperinflation that began around 1922. His arrival was also days after the Great Crash of 1929 on Wall Street. The Great Depression had struck Germany hard in late 1929, and sunk to its trough in early 1932. Shortly after arriving, until about 1931, Schumm lived at 160 Wadsworth Avenue, Washington Heights, a neighborhood in the most northern part of Manhattan, New York.

By 1931, Schumm was living in Los Angeles, and appeared in two 1932 productions at the Pasadena Community Playhouse. Schumm debuted in cinema in 1933 as an uncredited bit part actor in The Song of Songs, starring Marlene Dietrich.

Back in Germany, in 1933, by decree of Joseph Goebbels under a newly created agency called Die Reichskulturkammer (DKK), Jewish actors were, among other things, prohibited from performing on German stage. Schumm was not an exile. But he worked within the Hollywood cinema community, particularly German expatriate groups, to help German Jewish exiled actors acclimate in American cinema. In Los Angeles, in 1939, 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 thespians from Germany and Austria.

Schumm's film roles were mostly minor and, during World War II, mostly uncredited; though he was billed as a main actor on some film posters, including his villainous role as "The Mask" in the popular 1942 12-episode movie serial, Spy Smasher. Generally, the Screen Actors Guild for film, and AFTRA for TV and radio, establishes the guidelines for credits. The lack of crediting can be for several reasons, such as (i) small roles, (ii) non-speaking roles, (iii) brevity, (iv) perceived mismatch between the actor and the role (e.g., a famous actor playing an insignificant part), (v) cameos, (vi) extras, (vii) bit part roles. But also, from 1933 until after World War II, film credits for German-expatriates and German-American actors, particularly in Nazi-themed films, was risky for those who had families in Nazi-occupied countries, not only for Jews, but for anyone with American ties that might draw the attention of the SS. Schumm's paternal and maternal relatives were German citizens and resided there. Schumm became a U.S. naturalized citizen February 14, 1941. When Schumm was drafted under the U.S. Selective Service System, he became a conscientious objector. In a 2015 retrospective review of Schumm's role as "The Mask" from the 1942 serial Spy Smasher, film critic Boyd P. Magers wrote, "the ultimate screen Nazi was Hans Schumm." An IMDb biographer characterized Schumm as "Nazi swine par excellence.'" Magers pointed out that 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. Schumm played a character role in the 1943 film, Hangmen. The film was one of the few attempts by German immigrants in the United States to make a film against the Hitler regime.

After World War II, Schumm performed a role in a 1952–1953 Broadway play, A Red Rainbow.

Following a trend beginning around 1953 for American film producers to shoot in West Germany due to low costs, Schumm traveled to West Germany for work, including roles in: • The Trapp Family • The Third Sex (Das dritte Geschlecht) was filmed in Germany in 1957 and released in its original edition in Vienna • Tales of the Vikings (39 episodes), produced in Munich by Kirk Douglas, Schumm played Thorvald in two episodes • Question 7 • The Bashful Elephant • Come Fly with Me • Captain Sindbad, shot at Bavaria Film Studios • The Waltz King (1963) • Before Winter Comes • Komm nach Wien, ich zeig dir was! (Come to Vienna, I'll Show You Something!) The Third Sex was produced in West Germany. It was filmed from May 8 to June 3, 1957, and premiered in Vienna on August 29, 1957, in several cinemas. In Germany, the film was first seen in Stuttgart at the Gloria-Palast on October 31, 1957. Schumm played a pediatric psychologist. The film addressed homosexuality, which was controversial at the time. The underlying message, conversion therapy, is on the wrong side of science. Directed by Veit Harlan, the aim was to liberalize public views against homosexuality, and in particular, influence reform of West German laws against it. The film – specifically the version censored by German authorities under Paragraph 175 of the German Criminal Code – had the opposite effect.

Schumm returned to Hollywood and finished his acting career in 1970. After shooting Das dritte Geschlecht, Schumm returned to Hollywood and finished his acting career in 1970.

Schumm was represented by Paul Kohner.

Schumm was born April 2, 1896, in Stuttgart, Germany, to Friedrich Schumm (1855–1904) and Petronella (aka Petrauella) Jehle (maiden, aka Yehle aka Fehle; 1855–1936). He had three siblings – two brothers and a sister. His older brother, Gustav "Gustel" Schumm (de) (1888–1966) had been a star rugby and soccer player, and in 1912, for one year, had served as president of VfB Stuttgart and is credited for developing youth soccer in Germany, before and after World War I.

Schumm first married – on July 29, 1931, in Los Angeles – Agnes Mellen Kent (1888–1975), who from a previous marriage, had two daughters – (i) Jessie Marcellina (Elizabeth) Olivieri (1918–1947) and (ii) Josephine Tarquini (1910–2010), the latter having been adopted after being rescued from the 1915 earthquake in central Italy. Agnes Kent was the daughter of New York architect William Winthrop Kent (1860–1955) – who, as architect, was affiliated at various times with (i) Harvey L. Page, (ii) his brother, Edward Austin Kent (who perished on the Titanic), (iii) Heins & LaFarge, and (iv) Jardine, Kent & Jardine. He was one of the architects of the original plan for Cathedral of St. John the Divine, including the Romanesque Revival apse. Agnes was also the granddaughter of Henry Mellen Kent (1823–1894), one of the founders of the Flint & Kent department store in Buffalo. Hans and Agnes divorced. Agnes had been previously married to Umberto Olivieri (1884–1973), a banker for 14 years at Bank of America in San Francisco, a lawyer in Rome, and a language professor for 30 years at Santa Clara University, who, in 1958, at the age of 74 — after returning to Italy and joining the Order of Saint Benedict at the Subiaco Monastery in Rome — became ordained as a Roman Catholic Priest by the Bishop of Tivoli at Subiaco. Hans Schumm was Agnes' second of three husbands.

Schumm then married – on September 23, 1935, in Santa Ana, California – Gloria F. Smith (aka Gloria Smith Beery, née Florence W. Smith; 1916–1989). Gloria Schumm filed for divorce late September 1943 in Los Angeles County. Their divorced became final on December 8, 1944. Gloria and Hans then remarried August 21, 1947, after Gloria realized that she was pregnant from, she claimed, actor Wallace Beery, which Beery denied. Gloria gave birth on February 7, 1948, to Johan Richard Wallace Schumm. On February 13, 1948, Gloria Schumm, on behalf of Johan Schumm, as plaintiff, filed a paternity suit against Beery, who, through his lawyer, Norman Ronald Tyre (1910–2002) – Gang, Tyre, Ramer & Brown – initially offered $6,000 as a settlement, but denied being the father. Gloria Schumm, again, filed for divorced from Hans Schumm on April 2, 1953, in Los Angeles County. Gloria, in her private life, sometimes used Wallace Beery's surname and, as a bit part actor, sometimes used her stage name, Gloria Whitney. Gloria, again, divorced Hans Schumm January 11, 1978, in Los Angeles County.

Schumm died at on February 2, 1990. He 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. His body was cremated with his ashes buried in the actors' rose garden at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.

• Three stills from "The Primitive Touch," a TV episode from The Web; CBS/Getty Images, May 14, 1954 New York, New York • Joe Maross, Hans Josef Schumm, and Elizabeth Fraser: • Getty image 625765216 • Getty image 625765116 • Getty image 625765174 • Two images: April 17, 1952, Johann Schumm – 4 years (child); Gloria Schumm (mother); University of Southern California;

• Screen Actors Guild, member • Screen Extras Guild (between 1946 and 1992, background actors in film and television were largely represented by the Screen Extras Guild. SEG was disbanded on 1 June 1992 and transferred its jurisdiction to SAG) • Edwin Forrest Society, The Actors Fund, member (estate benefactor)

• Anders als du und ich (§ 175) • Psychologist (Hans Schumm), Christa Teichmann, Klaus' mother (Paula Wessely), Werner Teichmann, Klaus' father (Paul Dahlke) • Scene: "Cure for Homosexuality," Klause's parents with the psychologist (German censored version with English subtitles) • Casbah • Anton Duval (Houseley Stevenson), Willem (Hans Schumm as Andre Pola), Pepe (Tony Martin) • Scene • Spy Smasher on YouTube (all 12 chapters)

• Year — Film — Director — Role — Production Co. • 1933 — Song of Songs, The — Rouben Mamoulian — Man at Berlin railway station (uncredited) — Paramount • 1934 — The Countess of Monte Cristo — Karl Freund — Police detective (uncredited) — Universal • 1934 — One Night of Love — Victor Schertzinger — Policeman (uncredited) — Columbia • 1935 — Folies Bergère de Paris — Roy Del Ruth — Bartender (uncredited) — 20th Century Pictures • 1936 — Invisible Ray, The — Lambert Hillyer — Clinic valet (uncredited) — Universal • 1936 — Under Two Flags — Frank Lloyd — Cast member (uncredited) — 20th Century Pictures • 1936 — Revolt of the Zombies — Victor Hugo Halperin — German Soldier (uncredited) — Victor & Edward Halperin Productions • 1937 — Round-Up Time in Texas — Joseph Kane — Dunbar stable man (uncredited) — Republic • 1939 — Confessions of a Nazi Spy — Anatole Litvak — Bismarck officer with crew list (uncredited) — Warner Bros. • 1939 — Bridal Suite aka Maiden Voyage — Wilhelm Thiele — Man in shipboard brawl (uncredited) — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer • 1939 — Thunder Afloat — George B. Seitz — German sailor looking for wireless — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer • 1939 — Espionage Agent — Lloyd Bacon — Foreign official (uncredited) — Warner Bros. • 1939 — Escape, The — Ricardo Cortez — Policeman — Twentieth Century Fox • 1939 — Hitler – Beast of Berlin — Sherman Scott — Schaefer — Producers Pictures • 1939 — Scandal Sheet — Nick Grinde — Dorgas — Columbia • 1939 — Amazing Mr. Williams, The — Alexander Hall — Pedestrian — Columbia • 1940 — Calling Philo Vance — William Clemens — Nazi officer from ship at dock (uncredited) — Warner Bros. • 1940 — British Intelligence — Terry O. Morse — German senior officer (uncredited) — Warner Bros. • 1940 — Escape to Glory — John Brahm — Submarine commander — Columbia • 1940 — Women in War — John H. Auer — German Soldier (uncredited) — Republic • 1940 — Four Sons — Archie Mayo — Müller — Twentieth Century Fox • 1940 — Man I Married, The — Irving Pichel — 1 storm trooper (uncredited) — Charles Chaplin Productions • 1940 — Mystery Sea Raider — Edward Dmytryk — Sentry (uncredited) — Paramount • 1940 — The Great Dictator — Charles Chaplin — Soldier (uncredited) — Charles Chaplin Productions • 1940 — Moon Over Burma — Louis King — Baumgarten — Paramount • 1941 — So Ends Our Night — John Cromwell — Kobel — David L. Loew & Albert Lewin • 1941 — They Dare Not Love — James Whale — Bruckner (uncredited) — Columbia • 1941 — Underground — Vincent Sherman — Heller's aide — Warner Bros. • 1941 — Down in San Diego — Robert B. Sinclair (fr) — Müller (uncredited) — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer • 1941 — A Yank in the R.A.F. — Henry King — German officer (uncredited) — Twentieth Century Fox • 1942 — Lady Has Plans, The — Sidney Lanfield — 1 German — Paramount • 1942 — Underground Agent — Michael Gordon — Hans (uncredited) — Columbia • 1942 — Atlantic Convoy — Lew Landers — Commander von Smith — Columbia • 1942 — The Devil with Hitler — Gordon Douglas — Gestapo guard (uncredited) — Hal Roach Studios • 1942 — Destination Unknown — Ray Taylor — Müller (uncredited) — Universal • 1942 — To Be or Not to Be — Ernst Lubitsch — Special Investigations Squad (uncredited) — Romaine Film Corporation • 1942 — Invisible Agent — Edwin L. Marin — SS man — Frank Lloyd Productions • 1942 — Foreign Agent — William Beaudine — Dr. Werner — Monogram Pictures • 1942 — Navy Comes Through, The — A. Edward Sutherland — U-51 submarine captain recognizing Kroner (uncredited) — RKO Radio Pictures • 1942 — Once Upon a Honeymoon — Leo McCarey James Anderson (asst.) — Storm trooper — RKO Radio Pictures • 1942 — Spy Smasher (12-episode movie serial) # "America Beware" # "Human Target" # "Iron Coffin" # "Stratosphere Invaders" # "Descending Doom" # "The Invisible Witness" # "Secret Weapon" # "Sea Raiders" # "Highway Racketeers" # "2700° Fahrenheit" # "Hero's Death" # "V... _" — William Witney — The Mask (head of the Nazi spy ring operating from a U-78 submarine) — Republic • 1942 — Pardon My Sarong — Erle C. Kenton — Moss, Tabor's henchman — Mayfair Productions (Jules Levey) • 1942 — All Through the Night — Vincent Sherman — Anton — Warner Bros. • 1942 — Desperate Journey — Raoul Walsh — Gestapo agent (uncredited) — Warner Bros. • 1942 — Berlin Correspondent — Eugene Forde — Gunther — Twentieth Century Fox • 1943 — Sahara — Zoltán Korda — Sgt. Krause — Universal • 1943 — Strange Death of Adolf Hitler, The — James P. Hogan — Maj. Profe — Universal • 1943 — Hitler's Madman (aka Hitler's Hangman) — Douglas Sirk — Müller (Gestapo officer: Heydrich's gunman) (uncredited) — Angelus Productions (Aimee Semple McPherson) Producers Releasing Corporation • 1943 — Mission to Moscow — Michael Curtiz — Uniformed guard — Warner Bros. • 1943 — Action in the North Atlantic — Lloyd Bacon — Lieutenant Commander — Warner Bros. • 1943 — Around the World (B movie) — Allan Dwan — Nazi — RKO Radio Pictures • 1943 — Margin for Error (uncredited) — Otto Preminger — Karl Müller (uncredited) — Twentieth Century Fox • 1943 — Moon Is Down, The — Irving Pichel — Capt. Bentick — Twentieth Century Fox • 1943 — Bomber's Moon — Edward Ludwig Harold D. Schuster — German soldier — Twentieth Century Fox • 1943 — Chetniks! The Fighting Guerrillas — Louis King — Sentry — Twentieth Century Fox • 1943 — Journey into Fear — Norman Foster Orson Welles (uncredited) — Driver (uncredited) — RKO Radio Pictures • 1943 — Above Suspicion — Richard Thorpe — Guard — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer • 1943 — Assignment in Brittany — Jack Conway — Nazi torturer (uncredited) — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer • 1943 — They Got Me Covered — David Butler — Schmidt — Samuel Goldwyn Company • 1943 — This Land is Mine — Jean Renoir — German sergeant who pushes Albert — Jean Renoir-Dudley Nichols Production RKO Radio Pictures • 1943 — Hangmen Also Die! — Fritz Lang — Sergeant (uncredited) — Arnold Pressburger Films • 1944 — Uncertain Glory — Raoul Walsh — Gestapo agent — Warner Bros. • 1944 — Up in Arms — Elliott Nugent — Nazi spy in theatre lobby — Samuel Goldwyn Company • 1944 — Passport to Destiny (aka Passport to Adventure) — Ray McCarey — Miniger, Dietrich's Aide — RKO Radio Pictures • 1944 — Voice in the Wind — Arthur Ripley — Piesecke — Ripley – Monter Productions • 1944 — Resisting Enemy Interrogation — Bernard Vorhaus — German guard (uncredited) — First Motion Picture Unit, Army Air Forces • 1945 — Escape in the Desert — Edward Abraham Blatt (1903–1991) — Klaus — Warner Bros. • 1945 — Son of Lassie — S. Sylvan Simon — German commander (uncredited) — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer • 1946 — Cloak and Dagger — Fritz Lang — German agent — Warner Bros. – United States Pictures • 1947 — Golden Earrings — Mitchell Leisen — Policeman — Paramount • 1947 — Beginning or the End, The — Norman Taurog — Nazi police officer — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer • 1947 — Desire Me — Jack Conway (uncredited) George Cukor (uncredited) Mervyn LeRoy (uncredited) Victor Saville (uncredited) — German voice (1 of 3) — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer • 1948 — Billie Gets Her Man — Edward Bernds — Surgeon (as Andre Pola) — Columbia • 1948 — Smugglers' Cove — William Beaudine — Karl (as Andre Pola) — Monogram Pictures • 1948 — Casbah — John Berry — Willem (as Andre Pola) — Marston Productions (Tony Martin) • 1949 — Act of Violence — Fred Zinnemann — German voice (1 of 3) (as André Pola) — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer • 1949 — The Lovable Cheat — Richard Oswald — Policeman (as Andre Pola) — Skyline Pictures • 1949 — Fuelin' Around (Three Stooges short) (video clip) — Edward Bernds — Col. Cluttz (as Andre Pola) — Columbia • 1949 — Waiting in the Lurch (Three Stooges short) — Edward Bernds — Dr. Emil Gesundheit (as Andre Pola) — Columbia • 1951 — Target Unknown — George Sherman — Road guard — Universal • 1951 — I Was a Communist for the FBI — Gordon Douglas — Rader (uncredited) — Warner Bros. • 1953 — Stars Are Singing, The — Norman Taurog — Secretary to Ladowski — Paramount • 1953 — No Escape — Charles Bennett — Mr. Vladimir Platoff — Matthugh Productions (Matt Freed né Matthew J. Freed; 1909–2003; Hugh MacKenzie) • 1954 — The Fire Chaser (Three Stooges short) — Jules White — Dr. Emil Gesundheit (as Andre Pola) (archive footage) (uncredited) — Columbia • 1956 — Hot Stuff (Three Stooges short) — Jules White — Col. Klotz (as Andre Pola) — Columbia • 1956 — The Trapp Family (in German) — Wolfgang Liebeneiner — Petroff — Divina-Film (Ilse Kubaschewski) • 1957 — Das dritte Geschlecht (The Third Sex) (original) (Premiered 29 August 1957 Vienna) (based on a script by Felix Lützkendorf; 1906–1990) — Veit Harlan — (the scene with the youth psychologist in the original uncut version was played by another actor, uncredited) — Helmuth Volmer Production (de) Arca-Filmproduktion GmbH (Gero Wecker) • 1957 — Anders als du und ich (§ 175) (Different from You and Me) (censored version of Das dritte Geschlecht per FSK) (Premiered 31 October 1957 Stuttgart) — Veit Harlan (Hans Giese (de), scientific advisor) — Youth psychologist (played by Schumm) — Helmuth Volmer Production (de) Arca-Filmproduktion GmbH (Gero Wecker) • 1959 — The Third Sex (American release) (also released as Bewildered Youth) — Veit Harlan (Frank Winterstein, assistant director, is credited as director on the D-F Distributing Corp. release in America) — (the scene with the youth psychologist was played by another actor, uncredited, in the English language release) — Arca-Filmproduktion GmbH (Gero Wecker) (U.S. distributor: D-F Distributing Corp.) • 1959 — I Aim at the Stars — J. Lee Thompson — Baron von Braun (uncredited) — Morningside Productions / Fama-Film • 1961 — Question 7 — J. Lee Thompson — RD-DR Corporation (Louis de Rochemont) Lutheran Film Associates (Robert E. A. Lee) Matthias-Film (de) • 1962 — The Bashful Elephant — Dorrell McGowan (fr) & Stuart McGowan (fr) — Fritz — McGowan International, Inc. (Dorrell (fr) & Stuart McGowan (fr)) (filmed in Austria) • 1963 — Come Fly with Me — Henry Levin — Viennese gardner (uncredited) — De Grumwald Productions • 1963 — Captain Sindbad — Byron Haskin — King Brothers Productions • 1969 — Before Winter Comes — J. Lee Thompson — Camp doctor — Columbia • 1970 — Komm nach Wien, ich zeig dir was! (Come to Vienna, I'll Show You Something!) (in German) — Rolf Thiele — (uncredited) — Terra-Filmkunst Vienna-Filmproduktion GmbH

• Series — Season: Episode — Episode Title — Writer(s) — Director — Role — Original air date — Network — Production Co. • Space Patrol — 1: 37 — "Photograph of a Traitor" — Norman Jolley (1916–2002) — Dick Darley (1923–2016) — Brewer — 1951 08 08 — ABC — American Broadcasting Company Tower Productions • Dick Tracy (fr) (1950–1952) — 2: 6 2: 7 — "Dick Tracy and Pruneface:" Part 1 "Dick Tracy and Pruneface:" Part 2 — Robert Leslie Bellem (story suggested by) Chester Gould (comic strip characters) William Lively (1907–1973) (story suggested by) William Lively (1907–1973) (teleplay) — Thomas Carr — 1951 10 24 1951 10 31 — P.K. Palmer Herbert Moulton • The Unexpected (aka Time Square Playhouse) — "Merry-Go-Round" — Jerome Lawrence Robert E. Lee — Sobey Martin — 1952 06 20 — Ziv Television Programs • Chevron Theatre — 1: 33 — "Mightier Than the Sword" — Arthur Weiss — Richard Irving (1917–1990) — 1952 08 29 — MCA TV/Revue Productions • Biff Baker, U.S.A. — 1: 15 — "Flight to Geneva" — Barry Shipman Fenton Earnshaw (1912–1970) Howard J. Green (1893–1965) Jerome Gary Lawrence Kimble — Herschel Daugherty John English Richard Irving (1917–1990) — Rozan — 1953 02 12 — CBS — Revue Productions • The Ray Milland Show — 1: 5 — "The Faculty Dance" — Joe Connelly Bob Mosher (1915–1972) — Charles Barton — 1953 10 15 — CBS — Revue Productions • Kraft Television Theatre — 7: 25 — "The Cuckoo Clock" — Gerald Savory — German piano teacher — 1954 02 17 — NBC — J. Walter Thompson • The Web — 4: 33 — "The Primitive Touch" — Art dealer — 1954 05 23 — CBS — Mark Goodson Bill Todman • The Phil Silvers Show — 5: 5 — "A.W.O.L." — Nat Hiken, Terry Ryan, Barry Blitzer — Albert De Caprio (1916–2000) — Janos Varga (Hungarian father of Imre, who is about to marry Martha) — 1955 10 18 — CBS — CBS • Rheingold Theatre — 5: 9 — "Rendezvous at Dawn" — Charles Early Joseph Early — Arthur Crabtree — Sabolek — 1956 11 19 — NBC — Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Productions • Tales of the Vikings — 1: 2 1: 25 — "The Black Stone" "Blood Sacrifice" — Robert "Bob" Mitchell (1918–1992) (original story) Sidney Morse (1920–2003) (original story) Robert "Bob" Mitchell (1918–1992) (teleplay) — George M. Cahan (1919–1991) — Thorvald — 1959 09 15 1960 02 23 — United Artists Television (syndicated) — Brynaprod (produced in Munich by Kirk Douglas) • Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color — 10: 5 10: 6 — "The Waltz King" Part I "The Waltz King" Part II — Maurice Tombragel (fr) (script) Fritz Eckhardt (original story) — Steve Previn — Ferdinand Dommayer (de) — 1963 10 27 1963 11 03 — NBC — Walt Disney Productions

• Dates — Play — Writer(s) — Director — Role — Theater • Around 1925 — The Merchant of Venice — ("Hans Schumm, formerly of the Stuttgart State Theatre Company") — Stuttgart State Theatre Company • 1926 — (The German Stock Company) — ("Hans Schumm, formerly of the Stuttgart State Theatre Company") — Pabst Theater, Milwaukee Chicago • November 14, 1930 — Doctor Klaus (comedy) — Herma Kristof-Stock — Bert Sprotte — Ebell Wilshire TheaterLos AngelesSecond event of the German Theater Season • Cast: Bert Sprotte (title role), Eva Leoni, Edith Wolf-Kopelson, Conrad Seidemann, Hans Joseph Schumm, Johanna Hagen, Charlotte Foerstel, Kurt Herrnfeld, Costea Mooth, Otto Kottka, Elizabeth Siegel • January 7 – 16, 1932 — Berkeley Square (comedy, romance) — John L. Balderston — Gilmore Brown (1886–1960) — ("Hans Schumm, formerly of the Stuttgart State Theatre Company") — Pasadena Community Playhouse • January 21 – 30, 1932 — Once in a Lifetime — Moss Hart George S. Kaufman — Gilmore Brown (1886–1960) — Pasadena Community Playhouse • May 25 – June 12, 1939 — William Tell — Adaptation of Friedrich Schiller's 1804 original (two acts and ten scenes) — Leopold Jessner — El Capitan Theatre Hollywood The Continental Players • Cast: Louis Adlon; Siegfried Arno (Stuessi); Lutz Altschul (Rösselmann); Norbert J. Kobler (1916–2003), son of German actor and director, Julius Kobler (de); Ernst Lenart (de); Sigmund Nunberg (de); Friedrich Mellinger; Ernst Deutsch (the dictator); Leo Reuss (aka Lionel Royce) (William Tell); Norbert Schiller (de), great-great-great nephew of the playwright (Baumgarten); Gerhard Schaefer (Arnold von Melchtal); Hans Schumm; Walter O. Stahl (de); Rudolf Steinbock (de); Christiane Grautoff (de) (Ernst Toller's wife) (Hedwig, Tell's wife); Eva Hyde (aka Heyde; née Heymann; 1910–1955) (Armgard); Hermine Sterler (Gertrude Stauffacher); Alexander Granach (Stauffacher); Bobby Moya (young Tell). • Leopold Jessner, director; Ralph Freed, text; Rudi Feld, art director (costumes and set design); Ernst Toch, music score; Ingolf Dahl, conductor; Simon Mitchneck, Phd (1893–1986), English and voice coach (linguist). • January 31, 1949 — Totentanz (Dance of Death) — August Strindberg — Kurt — New Studio Theater 1743 North New Hampshire Boulevard Los Angeles (capacity 205) • Cast included Walter Wicclair (de) as the captain and Efriede Borodin (de) as Alice. • September 22, 23, 24, 1949 — Faust (in German) — Goethe — Walter Wicclair (de) — Assistant Director — University of Southern California Department of German • Cast included Norbert Schiller (de) as Faust, Walter Wicclair (de) as Mephistopheles, Laura McCann (de) as Gretchen, Else Baeck-Neft (de) as Martha, and Franz Roeh as Wagner, Marcel Lerner as the student. Others in the cast included Otto Waldis (de), Sigurd Bernau, L.H. Lasch, and Renee Henning. • March 16, 1949 (premier) — Intimitaeten (Private Lives) — Noël Coward — Bennet Chase — Coronet Theater 366 North La Cienega Boulevard Los Angeles (capacity 275) (guest performances were also give in San Francisco with the same cast) • Kitty Mattern (de) playing Helen Prynne co-starred with Hans Schumm playing Bennet Chase. In a love scene, Mattern and Schumm reportedly drove realism to an intensity that was unusual for the era. Others in the cast included Norbert J. Kobler playing Victor Prynne, Inga Grothe playing Sybile Chase • November 1949 source — Raub der Sabinerinnen (de) (Rape of the Sabine Women) — Paul and Franz Schönthan (de) — Coronet Theater • Cast included Else Baeck-Neft (de) as Rosa, Efriede Borodin (de) as Marianne, Walter Wicclair (de) as Professor Gallwitz, and Hans Schumm as Dr. Neumeister. • June 1951 — The Swallow's Nest — Zoë Akins — Robert Milton — Pasadena Community Playhouse • Cast included Billie Burke, Marjorie Steele (1930–1988) (Mrs. Huntington Hartford in her acting debut), Onslow Stevens, George Phelps, Lumsden Hare, Roy Gordon (1884–1972). • May 5 – 23, 1952 (premiere) — The Red Rainbow — Myron C. Fagan — Myron C. Fagan — Boris Sarno, the producer (a thick accented nemesis of the character J. Kerrigan Kane) — Beaux Arts Theater Westlake West 8th Street and Beacon Avenue • Opened January 14, 1953 — The Road to Rome — Robert E. Sherwood (rewritten by Preston Sturges) — Eddie Firestone — The Players (Sturges's dinner theater in Hollywood) • Cast: Carolyn Jones (Amytis, Grecian wife of the Roman dictator), Robin Hughes (Hannibal), Richard Hale (Hasdrubal), Mike Freeman (Maharbal), Clayton Cole (Hannibal's brother), Nico Lek (1901–1983) (Fabius, the dictator), Margaret Brewster (Fabius' mother), Pat Golden (the sergeant), Keith McConnell (Scripio), Taylor Flanikan (slave), Francesca Leland (slave) • September 14 – 26, 1953 — The Red Rainbow — Myron C. Fagan — Myron C. Fagan — Boris Sarno, the producer — Royal Theatre Broadway New York • The play is a murder-mystery involving the infiltration of communism in American life (see Red-baiting and McCarthyism). The production was partly financed by the Cinema Education Guild of Hollywood, Inc., which has been chronicled as a notoriously ill-fated McCarthyistic organization founded and headed by Myron C. Fagan (president). His son, executive producer of the play, Bruce Vincent Fagan (1918–2001) was the organization's secretary. Schumm's 1953 affiliation with Fagan notwithstanding, it is not known whether he seriously shared Fagan's views given that he went on to work with actors, directors, and producers who Fagan later infamously named before a stage audience, and on radio, 300 Hollywood stars that he claimed were communists. (FBI file)

• Dates — Play — Writer(s) — Director — Role — Network • 1955 — Radio Play: "Hier geschieht ja doch nichts" (adaptation from "Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe," from Twice-Told Tales) — Nathaniel Hawthorne — Paul Land (host at Radio Stuttgart, Süddeutscher Rundfunk, since the late 1930s) — Neger Josua — Süddeutscher Rundfunk (SDR) (Stuttgart) • Cast: Karin Schlemmer (de) (Helen Longfield), Thomas Flemming (Dominic Pike), Albert Florath (Thompson), Willi Reichmann (Babbler), Kurt Haars (Bullock), Walter Thurau (Davies), Trude Tandar (Mrs. Luly), Hans Mahnke (de) (Der hinkende Sam), Hans Josef Schumm (Josua)

• Marta Mierendorff papers 0214 "Schumm, Hans," Box 12, Folder 22, University of Southern California (USC), Feuchtwanger Memorial Library; • Marta Mierendorff, PhD — a German-born scholar who, in the latter 1960s, became a faculty member at USC — was a pioneer in the study of exiles. Schumm was not an exile, but, the papers include information on Schumm • Paul Kohner Agency records, Goose Step, Oscars collections, Margaret Herrick Library • Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch; Theatergeschichtliches Jahr- und Adressbuch, Berlin: F.A. Günther & Sohn Actien-Gesellschaft, Vol. 42 (1931); • "Arbeitsausschüsse der Fachschaft Bühne," Die Bühne (Redakteur: Dr. Hans Knudsen), 2 Jahrgang, heft 1, 1. Januar 1936, seit 22; • O – Obmann; St – Obmann Stellvertreter; S – Schriftführer; K – Kassenwart; Vd – Vertrauens -dame; B – Beisitzer; FV – Fachgruppenvertreter. • Bamberg Stadttheater: Walter Storm (O), Fritz Milter (St), Hans Schumm (S), Karl Frank (K), Ria Mardeck (Vd). •;. • See inline citation 21 for Chapter 5 on p. 504. →;. • Vol. 1: A–L • Vol. 2: M-Z