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 Fritz Lang
Birthday: December 31, 1969
Birth
Place: Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
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While the exact origins of film noir are impossible to pinpoint, no director worked within the genre more consistently or more brilliantly than Fritz Lang. Bringing to the screen an obsessive and fatalistic world populated by a rogues' gallery of strange and twisted characters, Lang staked out a uniquely hostile corner of the cinematic universe; despair, isolation, helplessness — all found refuge in the shadows of his work. A product of German Expressionist thought, he explored humanity at its lowest ebb, with a distinctively rich and bold visual sensibility which virtually defined film noir long before the term was even coined.Born Friedrich Christian Anton Lang in Vienna, Austria, on December 5, 1890, he initially studied to become an artist and architect, later serving in the Austrian army during World War I and earning an honorable discharge after being wounded four times. He first entered the German film industry as a writer, penning a series of horror movies and thrillers beginning with 1917's Hilde Warren Und Der Tod. In 1919, he and director Robert Wiene teamed on the script of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, and although Lang exited in the pre-production stages to begin work on another project, his major contribution to the story — a framing device ultimately revealing the story line to have been a dream — went on to rank among the most imitated structural techniques in history.As a director, Lang debuted in 1919 with the now-lost Halbblut. Upon completing 1920's two-part The Spiders, his early rise to fame culminated with 1922's Doktor Mabuse der Spieler, which marked the full emergence of his striking Expressionist aesthetic and introduced his popular Mabuse character. Another two-part epic, Die Nibelungen, followed two years later, and in 1927 he filmed the science fiction landmark Metropolis. Lang's transition from the silents to sound began with his masterpiece M (1931). Written by wife Thea von Harbou, as were most of his principal films of the era, M documented the crimes of a deranged serial killer (Peter Lorre) preying on the children of Berlin. The film went on to become a tremendous influence on the work of filmmakers including Alfred Hitchcock, Michael Powell, and Jacques Tourneur. The success of M positioned Lang as a leading figure of the German film industry, but its power may have been too great — Nazi propagandist Josef Goebbels offered Lang the opportunity to direct films for Adolf Hitler, unaware of the director's own Jewish heritage. According to legend, Lang — already stinging from a government ban on his recent Die Testament des Dr. Mabuse — fled the country that same evening, leaving without the pro-Nazi von Harbou. After briefly stopping in France to shoot Liliom, he landed in Hollywood, earning immediate acclaim with 1936's Fury, a stinging indictment of mob mentality. Lang spent the next several decades in America working in a variety of styles and genres, including the Western (among his more notable efforts being 1940's The Return of Frank James and 1952's Rancho Notorious). However, his greatest achievement during the period was a series of grim thrillers which went far in defining the look and texture of film noir; pictures like 1944's Ministry of Fear and The Woman in the Window, 1945's Scarlet Street, 1953's The Big Heat, and 1956's While the City Sleeps offered bleak, gripping depictions of life on the cliff's edge of desperation, exploring recurring themes of obsession, vengeance, and persecution in haunting detail. However, by the mid-'50s, Lang had become disenchanted with the Hollywood system, and after completing 1956's superb Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, he briefly stopped in India to film 1958's Die Tiger von Eschnapur before returning to Germany after an absence of decades. Upon completing 1959's Indische Grabmal, he directed one last Mabuse picture, Tausend Augen des Dr. Mabuse, before announcing his retirement from filmmaking. After appearing in Jean-Luc Godard's 1963 feature Contempt as himself, Lang returned to America to live out his remaining years. He died in Los Angeles on August 2, 1976.
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Tausend Augen des Dr. Mabuse, Die |
(1960) |
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Indische Grabmal, Das |
(1959) |
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Tiger von Eschnapur, Der |
(1959) |
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Journey to the Lost City |
(1959) |
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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt |
(1956) | | [ Dana Andrews ] |
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While the City Sleeps |
(1956) | | [ Vincent Price ][ George Sanders ][ Dana Andrews ] |
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Moonfleet |
(1955) | | [ George Sanders ][ Jack Elam ] |
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Human Desire |
(1954) | | [ Glenn Ford ] |
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The Big Heat |
(1953) | | [ Lee Marvin ][ Glenn Ford ][ Johnny Crawford ] |
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The Blue Gardenia |
(1953) | | [ Raymond Burr ][ George Reeves ] |
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Clash by Night |
(1952) | | [ Robert Ryan ][ Keith Andes ] |
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Rancho Notorious |
(1952) | | [ George Reeves ][ Jack Elam ][ Mel Ferrer ][ William Frawley ] |
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American Guerrilla in the Philippines |
(1950) | | [ Tyrone Power ][ Jack Elam ] |
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House by the River |
(1950) |
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Secret Beyond the Door... |
(1948) |
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Cloak and Dagger |
(1946) | | [ Gary Cooper ][ Lex Barker ] |
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Scarlet Street |
(1945) |
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The Woman in the Window |
(1945) | | [ Robert Blake ] |
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Ministry of Fear |
(1944) | | [ Ray Milland ] |
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Hangmen Also Die |
(1943) | | [ Walter Brennan ] |
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Moontide |
(1942) | | [ Claude Rains ] |
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Confirm or Deny |
(1941) | | [ Roddy McDowall ][ Don Ameche ] |
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Man Hunt |
(1941) | | [ Roddy McDowall ][ George Sanders ] |
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Western Union |
(1941) | | [ Randolph Scott ] |
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The Return of Frank James |
(1940) | | [ Henry Fonda ][ Jackie Cooper ] |
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You and Me |
(1938) |
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You Only Live Once |
(1937) | | [ Henry Fonda ][ Ward Bond ] |
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Fury |
(1936) | | [ Spencer Tracy ][ Walter Brennan ] |
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Liliom |
(1934) |
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Testament des Dr. Mabuse, Das |
(1933) |
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Testament du Dr. Mabuse, Le |
(1933) |
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M |
(1931) | | [ Peter Lorre ] |
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Frau im Mond |
(1929) |
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Spione |
(1928) |
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Metropolis |
(1927) | | [ Freddie Mercury ] |
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Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache, Die |
(1924) |
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Nibelungen: Siegfried, Die |
(1924) |
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Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler - Ein Bild der Zeit |
(1922) |
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Müde Tod, Der |
(1921) |
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Vier um die Frau |
(1921) |
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Spinnen, 2. Teil - Das Brillantenschiff, Die |
(1920) |
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Wandernde Bild, Das |
(1920) |
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Harakiri |
(1919) |
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Spinnen, 1. Teil - Der Goldene See, Die |
(1919) |
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Herr der Liebe, Der |
(1919) |
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Halbblut |
(1919) |
Trivia
- Dorothy Parker once remarked, in reference to Lang's wife's "campaigning" for his career, "There's a man who got where he is by the sweat of his Frau."
- On March 25, 1933, two days after Testament des Dr. Mabuse, Das (1932) was banned, Lang was summoned to the Nazi Ministry of Propaganda to meet with Joseph Goebbels himself. Goebbels explained the reason for the ban (when the Nazi party slogans are fed into the mouth of the villain at the film's conclusion) and apologised to Lang. He then shocked Lang by offering him the position of production supervisor at the UFA studios, where his first film would be a biography of William Tell. Lang suspected a trap and attempted to throw off Goebbels by telling him, "My mother had Jewish parents," to which Goebbels responded, "We'll decide who's Jewish!" Lang then expressed interest in the position and said he needed some time to think it over. That very evening, he boarded a train to Paris, leaving behing most of his money and personal possessions behind, along with his wife, Thea von Harbou, who divorced him later that year and went on to write and direct films for the Nazi propaganda machine.
- Interred at Forest Lawn (Hollywood Hills), Los Angeles, California, USA, in the Enduring Faith section, just to the right of plot #3818, two in from the curb.
- Before his death in 1976, he planned to make a film about the hippie culture.
- As a soldier in the Austrian army during World War I, Lang fought in Russia and Romania, where he was wounded three times.
- Both in Germany and the United States, he was one of the most personally disliked directors around, a fact that hurt him at times in Hollywood because some actresses and actors would refuse to work with him.
- Was voted the 30th Greatest Director of all time by Entertainment Weekly.
- Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890- 1945". Pages 609-624. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987.
- His first wife, Lisa Rosenthal, committed suicide by shooting herself in the chest.
- President of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1964
- An animated version of Lang appeared in the Japanese animated movie "Full Metal Alchemist: Conquerors of Shamballa". Originally mistaken by Edward Elric as being one of the Homonculi from his own world, this Fritz Lang aided Edward in his quest to return home. He was voiced by Hidekatsu Shibata.
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