Jerry Hausner
| Jerry Hausner | |
|---|---|
| Born |
James Bernard Hausner May 20, 1909 Cleveland, Ohio United States |
| Died | April 1, 1993 (aged 83) Los Angeles, California United States |
James Bernard Hausner (May 5, 1909 – April 1, 1993) (Another source gives May 20, 1909, as his birth date.) professionally Jerry Hauser was an American radio and television actor, best known as Ricky Ricardo's agent in I Love Lucy and as the voice of Waldo in Mr. Magoo and several characters such as Hemlock Holmes, The Mole, Broodles and Itchy in The Dick Tracy Show (he has also worked as a dialogue director for both of these cartoons).
On Broadway Hausner had the role of Sammy Schmaltz in Queer People (1934). He also acted in and vaudeville before going into radio at WJAY in Cleveland, Ohio.
On radio, he was a regular on Blondie,The Jim Backus Show,The Judy Canova Show,Too Many Cooks, and Young Love.
Hausner appeared as a courier who summons the Roman emperor Nero to a meeting called by the Devil in the 1969 KCET television reading of Norman Corwin's 1938 radio play The Plot to Overthrow Christmas. He provided special vocal effects in the 1975 animated film Hugo the Hippo.
Hausner is perhaps best remembered as the French tavern proprietor who introduced Christiane Susanne Harlan, the future Mrs. Christiane Kubrick, where she played the German singer in the final scene in Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory.
Hausner died of heart failure on April 1, 1993, in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. He was 83 years old and was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills).
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