Edgar G. Ulmer

Edgar Georg Ulmer was born in 1904 in Olmütz, Moravia, into a Jewish family. A theatre set designer in Vienna, he worked on the sets of Murnau's films and followed him to Hollywood in 1926, then took part in Berlin in the shooting of a film by young people with Robert Siodmak and Fred Zinnemann. His affair with the wife of a nephew of the head of Universal shut him out of the major studios after 1934; he then made very low-budget films for thirty years, four of them in Yiddish, and called himself the Capra of his little studio. He died in California in 1972.

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• CinemaDetourEdgar G. Ulmer · 1945Cinema