Ernst Lubitsch
| Ernst Lubitsch | |
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| Born |
January 29, 1892 Berlin, German Empire |
| Died | November 30, 1947 (aged 55) Hollywood, Los Angeles |
| Cause of death | Coronary thrombosis |
| Resting place | Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) |
| Citizenship | German-American |
| Occupation | Film director, producer, writer, actor |
| Years active | 1913–47 |
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| Children | Nicola Anne Patricia Lubitsch |
Ernst Lubitsch (/ˈluːbɪtʃ/; January 29, 1892 – November 30, 1947) was a German American film director, producer, writer, and actor. His urbane comedies of manners gave him the reputation of being Hollywood's most elegant and sophisticated director; as his prestige grew, his films were promoted as having "the Lubitsch touch".
In 1946, he received an Honorary Academy Award for his distinguished contributions to the art of the motion picture.
Ernst Lubitsch was born on January 29, 1892 in Berlin, Germany, the son of Anna (née Lindenstaedt) and Simon Lubitsch (Russian: Любич), a tailor. His family was Ashkenazi Jewish, his father born in Grodno in the Russian Empire and his mother from Wriezen (Oder), outside Berlin. He turned his back on his father's tailoring business to enter the theater, and by 1911, he was a member of Max Reinhardt's Deutsches Theater.
In 1913, Lubitsch made his film debut as an actor in The Ideal Wife. He gradually abandoned acting to concentrate on directing. He appeared in approximately thirty films as an actor between 1912 and 1920. His last film appearance as an actor was in the 1920 drama Sumurun, opposite Pola Negri and Paul Wegener, which he also directed.
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