He worked in Sweden, Germany and Italy and for a short time in Finland as a cameraman and film director and he also wrote some of the music and manuscripts for some of the films he made.
All the documentaries he made have been missing since World War II.
He also worked in a circus as an acrobat and according to himself his act there was to stand on one hand on a bottle that was placed on a chair.
In 1943 he married the Swedish film actress Viveca Lindfors.
Signe Hasso has a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was a famous Hollywood movie star with long career and an author of several books and a musician.