Birth Name: Cole Kenneth Hauser
Place of Birth: Santa Barbara, California
Date of Birth: March 22, 1975
Ethnicity:
*German, Belgian (Walloon), French (father)
*Ashkenazi Jewish (mother)
Cole Hauser is an American actor. He is the son of actor Wings Hauser (born Gerald Dwight Hauser) and producer Cass Warner (born Debora Cassie Sperling).
Cole’s father has German, Belgian (Walloon), and French ancestry. Cole’s mother is from a Jewish family (from Austria, Russia, and Poland).
Cole’s paternal grandparents were Dwight Arthur Hauser, a screenwriter (the son of Arthur H. Hauser and Elsie Reith/Ruth Evans), and Geraldine Helen Thienes (the daughter of Thomas Lavelle Thienes and Irene Geraldine Paulet).
Cole’s maternal grandparents were Milton Sperling, a film producer and screenwriter (the son of Charles Sperling and Bessie Diamond), and Betty Warner (the daughter of famous film mogul Harry M. Warner, born Hirsch Moses Wonsal, and Rea Levinson). Charles was an Austrian Jewish immigrant. Bessie was a Russian Jewish immigrant. Harry was a Polish Jewish immigrant, born in Krasnosielc, to Benjamin Wonsal and Pearl Leah Eichelbaum. Rea was born in England, to Louis Levinson and Jennie Sevison, who were Russian Jewish immigrants.
Source: Genealogical profile of Cole’s paternal great-grandmother, Elsie Reith/Ruth Evans – http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com
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