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Fritz Lang directing Woman in the Moon (1929)
Although it took Fritz Lang some 21 years to make 22 Hollywood films, arguably at least half of them are noirish masterpieces of menace. His time in Hollywood, which began in 1934, followed a directing career in Germany during the 1920s that included several landmark films.
Fritz Lang
German director
Quick Facts
- Born:
- December 5, 1890, Vienna, Austria-Hungary
- Died:
- August 2, 1976, Los Angeles, California, U.S. (aged 85)
- Notable Works:
- “Fury”
- “M”
- “Metropolis”
- “The Big Heat”
- “The Half-Caste”
- “While the City Sleeps”
- On the Web:
- Directors Guild of America - Fritz Lang (Nov. 28, 2024)
Fritz Lang (born December 5, 1890, Vienna, Austria-Hungary—died August 2, 1976, Los Angeles, California, U.S.) was an Austrian-born American motion-picture director whose films, dealing with fate and people’s inevitable working out of their destinies, are considered masterpieces of visual composition and expressionistic suspense. Lang had already created an impressive body of work in the German cinema before coming to the United States in 1934. Although it took him some 21 years to fashion 22 Hollywood films, arguably at least half of them are noirish masterpieces of menace—tone poems of fear and fate that have stood the test of time. Lang’s ...(100 of 2033 words)