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Filmmaker · Austria

Franz Antel

Died in 2007

Franz Antel (1913-2007), born in Vienna, the son of a postal official, attended the city's film academy, was an assistant cameraman and then production manager in Berlin, and took German nationality in 1937, which he kept until 1960. After the war, which he spent as a soldier, he directed more than a hundred feature films, mostly Viennese comedies and then, from the end of the sixties, bawdy comedies signed with the French pseudonym François Legrand. He published his memoirs in 2001 and died in Vienna.

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