Arthur Hansel(1931-2013)
- Actor
Educated at Taft School in Connecticut and Washington & Lee University
in Virginia, Art Hansl spent the next half century being in the right
place at the right time. After serving in the Marine Corps, he went to
Mexico for two weeks and stayed four years -- when places like Acapulco
were a paradise indeed. Then on to Italy in the sixties, the last years
of the Dolce Vita, where he became an actor in action pictures filmed
on exotic locations around Europe, behind the Iron Curtain and in North
Africa. Back to Mexico in 1969 for another dozen films --
co-productions with the U.S. as well as Mexican movies. Some of these
were forgettable -- except for the cast and crew -- often being shot on
the brink of a natural or man-made disaster. In America again the
filmic career dwindled after a stint on the daytime series Hôpital central (1963),
prompting a switch to writing. Three published suspense novels borrow
from a career that was never boring!
