Ernst Lubitsch
Born: 1892-01-28 in Berlin, Germany
Died: 1947-11-30
Known For: Directing
Biography
Ernst Lubitsch (January 29, 1892 – November 30, 1947) was a German film director, producer, writer, and actor. His urbane comedies of manners gave him the reputation of being Hollywood's most elegant and sophisticated director; as his prestige grew, his films were promoted as having "the Lubitsch touch". Lubitsch is best known for screwball comedies and romantic comedies, such as Trouble in Paradise (1932), Ninotchka (1939), The Shop Around the Corner (1940) and To Be or Not to Be (1942). While being escapist, his films often offer social commentary on human relationships and society in a satirical way. Andrew Sarris in his influential book of film criticism The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929–1968 included him in the "pantheon" of the 14 greatest film directors who had worked in the United States.
Filmography
2017
- 100 Years of the UFA as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2015
- From Caligari to Hitler as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2010
- Lubitsch, le patron as Self (Archival footage)
1983
- To Be or Not to Be ... (Story)
- A Letter to Freddy Buache ... (In Memory Of)
1977
- Hitler: A Career as Self (archive footage)
1976
- That's Entertainment, Part II ... (Thanks)
1948
- That Lady in Ermine ... (Director)
1946
- Dragonwyck ... (Producer)
- Cluny Brown ... (Director)
1945
- A Royal Scandal ... (Producer)
1943
- Heaven Can Wait ... (Director)
1942
- To Be or Not to Be ... (Director)
1941
- That Uncertain Feeling ... (Director)
1940
- The Shop Around the Corner ... (Director)
- The Eternal Jew as Self (archive footage)
1939
- Ninotchka as Himself - Director in Trailer (uncredited)
1938
- Bluebeard's 8th Wife ... (Director)
1937
- Angel ... (Director)
1936
- Desire ... (Producer)
1934
- The Merry Widow ... (Director)
1933
- Design for Living ... (Director)
- The Clerk ... (Director)
- Mr. Broadway as Ernst Lubitsch
1932
- Trouble in Paradise ... (Producer)
- If I Had a Million ... (Director)
- One Hour with You ... (Director)
- Broken Lullaby ... (Director)
1931
- The Smiling Lieutenant ... (Director)
1930
- The Vagabond King ... (Co-Director)
- Paramount on Parade ... (Director)
- Monte Carlo ... (Director)
1929
- The Love Parade ... (Director)
- Eternal Love ... (Director)
1928
- The Patriot ... (Director)
- The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg ... (Director)
- The Last Command ... (Writer)
1927
- Life in Hollywood as Self
1926
- So This Is Paris ... (Director)
- The Honeymoon Express ... (Director)
1925
- Lady Windermere's Fan ... (Director)
- Kiss Me Again ... (Director)
1924
- Three Women ... (Writer)
- Forbidden Paradise ... (Director)
- The Marriage Circle ... (Director)
1923
- Faust and Marguerite Test Footage ... (Director)
- Die Flamme ... (Director)
- Rosita ... (Director)
1922
- The Loves of Pharaoh ... (Director)
1921
- The Wildcat ... (Director)
1920
- Romeo and Juliet in the Snow ... (Director)
- Anna Boleyn ... (Director)
- Sumurun as Yeggar - the Hunchback Beggar
- Kohlhiesel's Daughters ... (Director)
- The Housing Shortage ... (Writer)
1919
- The Oyster Princess ... (Director)
- Käsekönig Holländer
- The Doll as Director in Prologue (uncredited)
- Madame DuBarry ... (Director)
- My Wife, the Movie Star ... (Director)
- Meyer from Berlin as Sally Meyer
- Intoxication ... (Director)
- The Swabian Maiden ... (Director)
1918
- The Eyes of the Mummy ... (Director)
- I Don't Want to Be a Man ... (Writer)
- Carmen ... (Director)
- The Ballet Girl ... (Director)
- Fuhrmann Henschel ... (Director)
- The Rosentopf Case as Sally
- The Toboggan Cavalier as Sally Piner
- Prinz Sami as Prinz Sami
1917
- Der Blusenkönig
- The Merry Jail ... (Director)
- Hans Trutz in the Land of Milk and Honey as Der Teufel Satan
- When Four Do the Same as Bit Role
- Ossis Tagebuch ... (Director)
1916
- Doctor Satanson as Dr. Satansohn
- Where Is My Treasure? as Ernst
- The Tenor, Inc. as Sally
- Pinkus's Shoe Palace as Sally Pinkus
- The Most Beautiful Gift as Verehrer
- The Mixed Ladies Chorus as Dirigent
- The New Nose as Ernst
1915
- The Bodybuilder as Stubenhocker
- Miss Soapsuds
- Miss Bellboy as Pinkeles
- How I Was Murdered
- Robert and Bertram as Kommis Max Edelstein
- Sugar and Cinnamon
- Blind Cow as Verlobter
- The Last Suit
- His Only Patient as Doktor
- A Trip on the Ice as Ernst
- Arme Maria as Commissioner Moritz Rosenthal
1914
- The Pride of the Firm as Siegmund Lachmann
- A Venetian Night
- The Firm Gets Married as Moritz Abramowski / Siegmund Lachmann (Lehrling)
1913
- The Ideal Wife as Krispin