Filmmaker · Germany, United States
F. W. Murnau
Died in 1931
Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe was born in 1888 in Bielefeld, the son of a cloth manufacturer. He studied philology and art history in Berlin and Heidelberg, where Max Reinhardt noticed him and took him into his acting school; around 1910 he took the name Murnau. During the war he served in the infantry and then in aviation, until a landing in Switzerland, where he was interned. He shot his first film in 1919, left in 1926 for Hollywood, hired by William Fox, and then for the South Seas. He died in 1931 in California, from the effects of a car accident, a week before the release of his last film.
In the catalogue 3
- CinemaNosferatuNosferatu, eine Symphonie des GrauensF. W. Murnau · 1922Cinema
- CinemaFaustF. W. Murnau · 1926Cinema
- CinemaSunriseF. W. Murnau · 1927Cinema