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ULMER, Edgar Georg
Film regisseur (1904-1972)
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AKA: John Warner – productie ontwerper, screenwriter Olmütz, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [nu Olomouc, Tsjech. Republiek], - † 30.9. 1972, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Education: Academy of Arts, Vienna (architecture); University of Vienna (philosophy) Prolific director of relatively minor fare who nevertheless created a wide assortment of odd, low-budget gems. Originally a stage actor and set designer, Ulmer did his first film work as an art director as early as 1919, became an assistant to theater impressario Max Reinhardt and crossed the Atlantic several times, working in both theater and film. After serving as F.W. Murnau's assistant for six years, he made his feature debut in Germany, co-directing with Robert Siodmak the landmark pseudo-documentary, PEOPLE ON SUNDAY (1929). In 1931 Ulmer settled in the US, working first as a production designer and then a director of second features. He made one major studio picture, the Universal horror classic, THE BLACK CAT (1934), but otherwise worked for a variety of low-budget outfits known collectively and colloquially as Poverty Row studios. He turned out a number of fast-paced programmers, including the highly entertaining DETOUR (1945), BLUEBEARD (1944) and RUTHLESS (1948). Ulmer himself declared that he preferred to work in this milieu ("I did not want to be ground up in the Hollywood hash machine") and, despite budgetary constraints, he was awarded a degree of creative freedom that he would not have had with the major studios. The result is a distinctive personal stamp present on many of his films, partly thanks to his roots in the German expressionist movement and his experience in design. Filmografie Edgar G. Ulmer (waar niets vermeld was hij de regisseur) 1929 PEOPLE ON SUNDAY/Menschen am Sonntag 1934 The Black Cat director, adaptation 1935 From Nine to Nine 1937 Damaged Lives director, screenwriter, story 1937 Green Fields producer, director 1938 From Nine to Nine story, producer, director 1939 Cossacks in Exile director 1939 DIE KLATSCHE/The Light Ahead producer, director 1939 The Light Ahead 1939 MOon Over Harlem 1940 Americaner-Shadchen/AMERICAN MATCHMAKER producer, director 1942 Prisoner of Japan story 1942 Tomorrow We Live 1943 Corregidor screenwriter, story 1943 Danger! Women at Work story 1943 Girls in Chains director, story 1943 Isle of Forgotten Sins/MONSOON director, story 1943 Jive Junction 1944 Bluebeard 1945 Club Havana 1945 Detour 1945 Strange Illusion 1946 Her Sister's Secret 1946 The Strange Woman as Edgar Umer 1946 The Wife of Monte Cristo director, story 1947 Carnegie Hall 1948 Ruthless 1949 THE PIRATES OF CAPRI/i PIrati di Capri/THE CAPTAIN SIROCCO 1951 St. Benny the Dip 1952 Babes in Bagdad 1953 Murder Is My Beat performer 1955 The Naked Dawn 1960 The Amazing Transparent Man 1960 HANNIBAL/Annibale 1961 JOURNEY BENEATH THE DESERT/ L’ Atlantide 1966 THE CAVERN/SEtte contro la morte producer, director # |
