Claus Clausen was born on 15 August 1899 in Eisenach, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach [now Thuringia], Germany. He was an actor, known for Kolberg (1945), Der Feuerteufel (1940) and Hitlerjunge Quex (1933). He died on 25 November 1989 in Essen, Germany.