Edgar G. Ulmer
| Edgar G. Ulmer | |
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September 17, 1904 Olomouc, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | September 30, 1972 (aged 68) Woodland Hills, California |
| Occupation | Film director, set designer |
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. His stylish and eccentric works came to be appreciated by auteur theory-espousing film critics over the years following his retirement. Ulmer's most cherished productions are the bizarre Universal Horror film The Black Cat (1934) and the seminal film noir Detour (1945). Most of his other films remain rather obscure.
Ulmer was born in Olomouc, in what is now the Czech Republic. As a young man he lived in Vienna, where he worked as a stage actor and set designer while studying architecture and philosophy. He did set design for Max Reinhardt's theater, served his apprenticeship with F. W. Murnau, and worked with directors including Robert Siodmak, Billy Wilder, Fred Zinnemann and cinematographer Eugen Schüfftan, inventor of the Schüfftan process. He also claimed to have worked on Der Golem (1920), Metropolis (1927), and M (1931), but there is no evidence to support this. Ulmer came to Hollywood with Murnau in 1926 to assist with the art direction on Sunrise (1927). In an interview with Peter Bogdanovich, he also recalled making two-reel westerns in Hollywood around this time.
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