F.W. Murnau

Name: F.W. Murnau
Date of Birth: December 28, 1888
Place of Birth: Bielefeld, North-Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Mini-bio: Director. First was assistant to Max Reinhardt. Began making movies in Germany in 1919. Went to the USA in 1926.

He studied art and literature history at the University of Heidelberg. Durin...( read more)

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F.W. Murnau mini-bio: Director. First was assistant to Max Reinhardt. Began making movies in Germany in 1919. Went to the USA in 1926.

He studied art and literature history at the University of Heidelberg. During World War I, he was a combat pilot.

One of the three top German directors of the 20s, the others being Fritz Lang and Ernst Lubitsch.

The border between dream and reality is often fluent in his films.

Was a closet homosexual.

Retrospective at the 53rd Berlin International Film Festival. [2003]

A very tall man and, although perhaps a slight exaggeration, he was said to be nearly 7 feet tall.

Was voted the 33rd Greatest Director of all time by Entertainment Weekly.

Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945". Pages 807-819. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987.

Murnau did not live to see the premiere of his last film; he died in an automobile accident in Santa Barbara, California on March 11, 1931. The car was driven by Murnau's fourteen-year old Filipino valet Garcia Stevenson. Murnau was entombed in Berlin. Robert Flaherty, Emil Jannings and Greta Garbo attended the funeral, and Fritz Lang delivered the funeral speech.

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