George Schnéevoigt

George Schnéevoigt was born in Copenhagen in 1893, the son of a Danish musician and a Finnish photographer, and spent much of his childhood in Berlin, where he began as an actor with Max Reinhardt. Back in Denmark in 1914, he founded a small production company and became a cinematographer, notably on four silent films by Carl Th. Dreyer. Having moved into directing, he shot films in Lapland and Greenland, directed Nordisk's first ten talking pictures, stopped making films in 1942 and died in 1961.

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• CinemaPræsten i VejlbyGeorge Schnéevoigt · 1931Cinema