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Edgar G. Ulmer

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Edgar Georg Ulmer (September 17, 1904 – September 30, 1972) was a Jewish-Moravian, Austrian-American film director who mainly worked on Hollywood B movies and other low-budget productions. [1]

76 relations: Academy Film Archive, Arthur Rubinstein, Austria-Hungary, Austrians, Auteur, B movie, Babes in Bagdad, Bela Lugosi, Beyond the Time Barrier, Billy Wilder, Bluebeard (1944 film), Boris Karloff, Carl Laemmle, Carnegie Hall (film), Club Havana, Czech Republic, Damaged Lives, Detour (1945 film), Eugen Schüfftan, Exploitation film, F. W. Murnau, Film director, Film noir, Frank Capra, Fred Zinnemann, Fritz Reiner, Girls in Chains, Green Fields (film), Gregor Piatigorsky, Hannibal (1959 film), Hedy Lamarr, Her Sister's Secret, Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Isle of Forgotten Sins, Jacob Ben-Ami, Jascha Heifetz, Jews, Journey Beneath the Desert, Library of Congress, Lily Pons, M (1931 film), Margaret Herrick Library, Max Reinhardt, Metropolis (1927 film), Moon Over Harlem, Moravians, Murder Is My Beat, Olomouc, People on Sunday, Peter Bogdanovich, ..., Poverty Row, Producers Releasing Corporation, Robert Siodmak, Ruthless (film), Schüfftan process, Sodom and Gomorrah (1922 film), St. Benny the Dip, Strange Illusion, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, The Amazing Transparent Man, The Black Cat (1934 film), The Cavern (1964 film), The Daughter of Dr. Jekyll, The Golem: How He Came into the World, The Man from Planet X, The Naked Dawn, The New School, The Pirates of Capri, The Strange Woman, The Wife of Monte Cristo, Thunder Over Texas, Tomorrow We Live (1942 film), United States, Universal Pictures, Vienna, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles. Expand index (26 more) »

Academy Film Archive

The Academy Film Archive is part of the Academy Foundation, established in 1944 with the purpose of organizing and overseeing the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ educational and cultural activities, including the preservation of motion picture history.

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Arthur Rubinstein

Arthur Rubinstein (Artur Rubinstein; 28 January 188720 December 1982) was a Polish American classical pianist.

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Austria-Hungary

Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire or the Dual Monarchy in English-language sources, was a constitutional union of the Austrian Empire (the Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council, or Cisleithania) and the Kingdom of Hungary (Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen or Transleithania) that existed from 1867 to 1918, when it collapsed as a result of defeat in World War I. The union was a result of the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 and came into existence on 30 March 1867.

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Austrians

Austrians (Österreicher) are a Germanic nation and ethnic group, native to modern Austria and South Tyrol that share a common Austrian culture, Austrian descent and Austrian history.

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Auteur

An auteur ('author') is an artist, such as a film director, who applies a highly centralized and subjective control to many aspects of a collaborative creative work.

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B movie

A B movie or B film is a low-budget commercial movie, but not an arthouse film.

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Babes in Bagdad

Babes in Bagdad is a 1952 American comedy film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer and starring Paulette Goddard and Gypsy Rose Lee.

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Bela Lugosi

Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó (20 October 1882 – 16 August 1956), better known as Bela Lugosi, was a Hungarian-American actor famous for portraying Count Dracula in the 1931 film and for his roles in various other horror films.

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Beyond the Time Barrier

Beyond the Time Barrier is a 1960 American Cold War-era black and white time travel science fiction film filmed in Texas in ten days.

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Billy Wilder

Samuel "Billy" Wilder (June 22, 1906March 27, 2002) was an Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist whose career spanned more than five decades.

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Bluebeard (1944 film)

Bluebeard is a 1944 film noir directed by Edgar G. Ulmer, starring John Carradine in the title role.

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Boris Karloff

William Henry Pratt (23 November 1887 – 2 February 1969), better known by his stage name Boris Karloff, was an English actor who was primarily known for his roles in horror films.

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Carl Laemmle

Carl Laemmle (born Karl Lämmle; January 17, 1867 – September 24, 1939) was an American filmmaker and a founder of Universal Studios.

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Carnegie Hall (film)

Carnegie Hall is a 1947 film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer.

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Club Havana

Club Havana is a 1945 American drama mystery directed by Edgar G. Ulmer.

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Czech Republic

The Czech Republic (Česká republika), also known by its short-form name Czechia (Česko), is a landlocked country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west, Austria to the south, Slovakia to the east and Poland to the northeast.

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Damaged Lives

Damaged Lives is a 1933 Canadian/American Pre-Code exploitation film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer.

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Detour (1945 film)

Detour is a 1945 American film noir directed by Edgar G. Ulmer starring Tom Neal and Ann Savage.

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Eugen Schüfftan

Eugen Schüfftan (21 July 1893, Breslau, Silesia, Germany, now Wroclaw, Poland – 6 September 1977, New York City) was a German Jewish cinematographer.

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Exploitation film

An exploitation film is a film that attempts to succeed financially by exploiting current trends, niche genres, or lurid content.

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F. W. Murnau

Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (born Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe; December 28, 1888March 11, 1931) was a German film director.

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Film director

A film director is a person who directs the making of a film.

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Film noir

Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those which emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations.

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Frank Capra

Frank Russell Capra (born Francesco Rosario Capra; May 18, 1897September 3, 1991) was a Sicilian American film director, producer and writer who became the creative force behind some of the major award-winning films of the 1930s and 1940s.

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Fred Zinnemann

Alfred Zinnemann (April 29, 1907March 14, 1997) was an Austrian-born American film director.

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Fritz Reiner

Frederick Martin "Fritz" Reiner (December 19, 1888 – November 15, 1963) was a prominent conductor of opera and symphonic music in the twentieth century.

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Girls in Chains

Girls in Chains is a 1943 American film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer.

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Green Fields (film)

Green Fields (גרינע פעלדער, trans. Grine Felder) is a 1937 American comedy-drama Yiddish film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer and Jacob Ben-Ami.

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Gregor Piatigorsky

Gregor Piatigorsky (Russian: Григо́рий Па́влович Пятиго́рский, Grigoriy Pavlovich Pyatigorskiy; August 6, 1976) was a Ukrainian-born American cellist.

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Hannibal (1959 film)

Hannibal (Annibale) is a 1959 Italian historical adventure film based on the life of Hannibal, starring Victor Mature in the title role.

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Hedy Lamarr

Hedy Lamarr (born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, November 9, 1914 January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-born American film actress and inventor.

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Her Sister's Secret

Her Sister's Secret is a 1946 drama film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer and starring Nancy Coleman, Margaret Lindsay, Phillip Reed, and Regis Toomey.

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Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Hollywood Forever Cemetery is one of the oldest cemeteries in Los Angeles, California in the United States.

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Isle of Forgotten Sins

Isle of Forgotten Sins is an American South Seas adventure film released on August 15, 1943 by PRC, with Leon Fromkess in charge of production, directed by Edgar G. Ulmer (also credited with original story) and featuring top-billed John Carradine and Gale Sondergaard whose performance in one of 1936's Academy Award for Best Picture nominees, Anthony Adverse, earned her the first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

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Jacob Ben-Ami

Jacob Ben-Ami (November 23 or December 23, 1890, Minsk, Russian Empire – July 2, 1977, New York City, New York, United States) was a noted Russian-born Jewish stage actor who performed equally well in Yiddish and English.

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Jascha Heifetz

Jascha Heifetz (10 December 1987) was a Russian-American violinist.

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Jews

Jews (יְהוּדִים ISO 259-3, Israeli pronunciation) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and a nation, originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The people of the Kingdom of Israel and the ethnic and religious group known as the Jewish people that descended from them have been subjected to a number of forced migrations in their history" and Hebrews of the Ancient Near East.

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Journey Beneath the Desert

Journey Beneath the Desert (Antinea, l'amante della città sepolta) is a 1961 Italian-French adventure film based on the novel Atlantida by Pierre Benoît.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States.

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Lily Pons

Lily Pons (born Alice Joséphine Pons, April 12, 1898 – February 13, 1976) was a French-American operatic soprano and actress who had an active career from the late 1920s through the early 1970s.

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M (1931 film)

M (M – Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder — M – A City Searches for a Murderer) is a 1931 German horror drama-thriller film directed by Fritz Lang and starring Peter Lorre.

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Margaret Herrick Library

The Margaret Herrick Library, located in Beverly Hills, California, is the main repository of print, graphic and research materials of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Max Reinhardt

Max Reinhardt (September 9, 1873 – October 30, 1943) was an Austrian-born theatre and film director, intendant, and theatrical producer.

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Metropolis (1927 film)

Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist science-fiction drama film directed by Fritz Lang.

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Moon Over Harlem

Moon Over Harlem is a 1939 American race film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer.

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Moravians

Moravians (Czech: Moravané or colloquially Moraváci) are a West Slavic ethnographic group from the Moravia region of the Czech Republic, who speak the Moravian dialects of the Czech language or Common Czech or a mixed form of both.

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Murder Is My Beat

Murder Is My Beat is a 1955 film noir mystery film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer starring Paul Langton, Barbara Payton and Robert Shayne.

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Olomouc

Olomouc (locally Holomóc or Olomóc; Olmütz; Latin: Olomucium or Iuliomontium; Ołomuniec; Alamóc) is a city in Moravia, in the east of the Czech Republic.

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People on Sunday

People on Sunday (Menschen am Sonntag) is a 1930 German silent drama film directed by Robert Siodmak and Edgar G. Ulmer from a screenplay by Billy Wilder.

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Peter Bogdanovich

Peter Bogdanovich (Serbian: Петар Богдановић, Petar Bogdanović, born July 30, 1939) is an American director, writer, actor, producer, critic and film historian.

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Poverty Row

Poverty Row was a slang term used in Hollywood from the late 1920s through the mid-1950s to refer to a variety of small (and mostly short-lived) B movie studios.

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Producers Releasing Corporation

Producers Releasing Corporation was one of the less prestigious film studios of Hollywood which all-together made what was referred to as 'Poverty Row', and lasted from 1939–47.

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Robert Siodmak

Robert Siodmak (8 August 1900 – 10 March 1973) was a German film director who also worked in the United States.

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Ruthless (film)

Ruthless is a 1948 American drama film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer and starring Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet and Louis Hayward.

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Schüfftan process

The Schüfftan process is a movie special effect named after its inventor, Eugen Schüfftan (1893–1977).

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Sodom and Gomorrah (1922 film)

Sodom und Gomorrha (subtitle: Die Legende von Sünde und Strafe, translated Sodom and Gomorrah: The Legend of Sin and Punishment; English title: Sodom and Gomorrah, or in full Queen of Sin and the Spectacle of Sodom and Gomorrha) is an Austrian silent epic film from 1922.

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St. Benny the Dip

St.

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Strange Illusion

Strange Illusion is a 1945 film noir crime film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer and starring Jimmy Lydon, Warren William and Sally Eilers.

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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (also known as Sunrise) is a 1927 American silent romantic drama film directed by German director F. W. Murnau and starring George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, and Margaret Livingston.

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The Amazing Transparent Man

The Amazing Transparent Man is a 1960 science fiction film starring Marguerite Chapman.

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The Black Cat (1934 film)

The Black Cat is a 1934 American Pre-Code horror film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer and starring Béla Lugosi and Boris Karloff.

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The Cavern (1964 film)

The Cavern (Sette contro la morte, Neunzig Nächte und ein Tag, also known as Helden - Himmel und Hölle) is a 1964 Italian-German-American war-drama film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer.

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The Daughter of Dr. Jekyll

Daughter of Dr.

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The Golem: How He Came into the World

The Golem: How He Came into the World (Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam, also referred to as The Golem) is a 1920 silent horror film co-directed by and starring Paul Wegener.

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The Man from Planet X

The Man from Planet X is a 1951 independently made American black-and-white science fiction horror film, produced by Jack Pollexfen and Aubrey Wisberg, directed by Edgar G. Ulmer, that stars Robert Clarke, Margaret Field, and William Schallert.

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The Naked Dawn

The Naked Dawn is a 1955 American Technicolor Western film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer starring Arthur Kennedy and Betta St. John.

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The New School

The New School is a private non-profit research university centered in Manhattan, New York City, USA, located mostly in Greenwich Village.

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The Pirates of Capri

The Pirates of Capri (I pirati di Capri), released in the United Kingdom as The Masked Pirate, is a 1949 Italian/American international co-production swashbuckler film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer starring Louis Hayward.

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The Strange Woman

The Strange Woman is a 1946 American drama film noir thriller film and directed by Edgar G. Ulmer starring Hedy Lamarr, George Sanders and Louis Hayward.

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The Wife of Monte Cristo

The Wife of Monte Cristo is a 1946 American adventure film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer starring John Loder and Lenore Aubert.

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Thunder Over Texas

Thunder Over Texas is a 1934 American populist contemporary western film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer under the alias Joen Warner (the name of Ulmer's previous wife) and produced by two nephews of Universal Pictures head Carl Laemmle, Arthur and Max Alexander's Poverty Row Beacon Productions.

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Tomorrow We Live (1942 film)

Tomorrow We Live is a 1942 American film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Universal Pictures

Universal Pictures (also known as Universal Studios) is an American film studio owned by Comcast through the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group division of its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal.

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Vienna

Vienna (Wien) is the federal capital and largest city of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria.

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Woodland Hills, Los Angeles

Woodland Hills is a neighborhood bordering the Santa Monica Mountains in the San Fernando Valley region of the city of Los Angeles, California.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_G._Ulmer

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