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Filmmaker · Czechia

Karel Lamač

Died in 1952

Karel Lamač was born on 27 January 1897 in Prague. He learned the technique of cinema in Dresden just before the Great War, was a cameraman at the front, then technical director of laboratories, actor, screenwriter and director; in all he took part in some two hundred and sixty films. In 1930, he founded in Berlin, with the actress Anny Ondra, the company Ondra-Lamač-Film. He left after the occupation of 1939 for the Netherlands and then England, served in the RAF as a filmmaker, and died in Hamburg on 2 August 1952.

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