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Filmmaker · Austria, England

Alexander Korda

Died in 1956

Alexander Korda (1893-1956), born Sándor Kellner into a Jewish family of the Hungarian Great Plain, was a journalist in Budapest, then from 1917 ran the Corvin studio. Imprisoned for a time after the fall of the Soviet Republic, he left Hungary in 1919 with his wife, worked in Vienna, Berlin and Hollywood, then settled in London, where he founded London Films and in 1942 became the first film man to be knighted by the British Crown.

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