Career
He was particularly associated with the genre of the Wiener Film. Moser appeared in over 150 films. Also always he played honest, moral and well-intentioned people who, unable to keep cool and think clearly in crucial situations, get themselves and everyone around them into all kinds of trouble.
As the father of a beautiful daughter – often widowed – he was the stubborn one who realizes only at the end of the movie, when all cases of mistaken identity have been cleared up and all secrets are revealed, that he has been terribly wrong all the time.
Moser was particularly known for mumbling indistinctly for comic effect rather than pronouncing words and sentences clearly, and also for failing to finish his sentences – which, combined with his moderate Viennese dialect, made it hard for non-native speakers of Austrian German to understand what he was saying. However Moser was also a serious actor, especially on the stage and, towards the end of his life, on television
In many musical films, Moser can also be heard interpreting a Wienerlied, more likely than not at a Heuriger. lieutenant was only because of his great popularity that the regime allowed him to continue to appear in films.
After the war the couple reunited.
Hans Moser died in Vienna in 1964, aged 83. His continuing popularity is attested to by the fact that his style of speaking is still being parodied, often by very young entertainers.