Walter Hasenclever was born on July 8, 1890 in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany as Walter Georg Alexander Hasenclever. He was a writer and actor, known for Anna Christie (1930), Christoph Kolumbus oder Die Entdeckung Amerikas (1969) and Ein besserer Herr (1963). He was married to Edith Schäfer and Lilly Turell.