Filmmaker · Germany
Max Mack
Died in 1973
Max Mack was born in 1884 in Halberstadt, the son of a Jewish cantor, under the name Moritz Myrthenzweig. A stage actor in Eisenach from 1906, he joined the Vitascope company in 1911, where he made his debut as a director, and became one of the most prolific filmmakers of the German silent era, with nearly one hundred and forty films. In 1916 he published, with Ewald André Dupont, one of the first German books on cinema. Driven out by the Nazis, he went to England in 1933, where he made only one more film, and died in London in 1973.