On Broadway Hausner had the role of Sammy Schmaltz in Queer People (1934). He also acted in stock theater and vaudeville before going into radio at WJAY in Cleveland, Ohio.
Hausner appeared as a courier who summons the Roman Emperor Nero to a meeting called by the Devil in the 1969 KCET television reading of Norman Corwin's 1938 radio play The Plot to Overthrow Christmas. He made a guest appearance on The Patty Duke Show, He also provided special vocal effects in the 1975 animated film Hugo the Hippo.
Hausner died of heart failure on April 1, 1993, in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. He was 83 years old and was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills).
