Biography

Harald Dyrenforth started his career as an actor in the late thirties in the Swiss theatre and radio, came to America in 1938, appeared in a number of Broadway plays and New York radio shows, served a hitch in the U.S. Army Ski Troops and another one as a foreign language broadcaster for the Office of War Information and "voice of America" of the U.S. State Department. In 1946 he made his movie debut in a featured part, that of Walter Damrosch in the film "Carnegie Hall." He appeared in over 40 pictures and 500 TV shows. He earned a Master's Degree in Theater Arts at U.C.L.A. and taught at Chapman College in Orange, CA while working as an actor and director. In 1961 he directed "the Madwoman of Chaillot" at Long Beach State College.
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Harald Oskar Dyhrenfurth (who later americanized his name) is the son of renown Swiss-German mountaineer, geologist and Himalayan explorer Günter Oskar Dyhrenfurth (1886-1975) and his first wife Hettie Heymann. His brother Norman Günter Dyhrenfurth (born 1918) later became a skiing instructor, mountaineer and cinematographer. Harald first got involved in the movie business in 1935 when he adopted a script of his father for the screen (Andrew Marton's Der Dämon des Himalaya - Demon of the Himalayas). Mrs. Heymann and her two sons emigrated into the States approximately in 1937. Since Harold was fluent in English, German and French he was engaged as foreign-language radio broadcaster for "The Voice of America". He also was active on stage and performed in a good number of minor TV and movie roles such as German soldier, enemy agent or scientist. Furthermore, he worked as a college teacher and author of scientific essays on stage and movie subjects. According to a Swiss website he lived in California until 1975, the year his father died. Harold may then have returned to his family's domicile in Switzerland. The final chapter of his biography still has to be made public.
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