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)
1983
- To Be or Not to Be ... (Story)
- A Letter to Freddy Buache ... (In Memory Of)
1977
- Hitler: A Career as Self (archive footage)
1948
- That Lady in Ermine ... (Director)
1946
- Cluny Brown ... (Director)
- Dragonwyck ... (Producer)
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)
- Mr. Broadway as Ernst Lubitsch
- The Clerk ... (Director)
1932
- Trouble in Paradise ... (Director)
- If I Had a Million ... (Director)
- Broken Lullaby ... (Director)
- One Hour with You ... (Director)
1931
- The Smiling Lieutenant ... (Director)
1930
- Monte Carlo ... (Director)
- Paramount on Parade ... (Director)
- The Vagabond King ... (Co-Director)
1929
- The Love Parade ... (Director)
- Eternal Love ... (Director)
1928
- The Last Command ... (Writer)
- The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg ... (Director)
- The Patriot ... (Director)
1926
- So This Is Paris ... (Director)
- The Honeymoon Express ... (Director)
1925
- Lady Windermere's Fan ... (Director)
- Kiss Me Again ... (Director)
1924
- Three Women ... (Director)
- Forbidden Paradise ... (Director)
- The Marriage Circle ... (Director)
1923
- Rosita ... (Director)
- Screen Tests for Faust ... (Director)
- Die Flamme ... (Director)
1922
- The Loves of Pharaoh ... (Director)
1921
- The Wildcat ... (Director)
1920
- Sumurun as Yeggar - the Hunchback Beggar
- Anna Boleyn ... (Director)
- Romeo and Juliet in the Snow ... (Director)
- The Housing Shortage ... (Director)
- Kohlhiesel's Daughters ... (Director)
1919
- The Oyster Princess ... (Director)
- Intoxication ... (Director)
- Madame DuBarry ... (Director)
- The Doll as Director in Prologue (uncredited)
- Meyer from Berlin as Sally Meyer
- The Swabian Maiden ... (Director)
- My Wife, the Movie Star ... (Director)
- Käsekönig Holländer
1918
- I Don't Want to Be a Man ... (Director)
- Carmen ... (Director)
- The Eyes of the Mummy ... (Director)
- The Ballet Girl ... (Director)
- Fuhrmann Henschel ... (Director)
- The Toboggan Cavalier as Sally Piner
- Prinz Sami as Prinz Sami
- The Rosentopf Case as Sally
1917
- Hans Trutz in the Land of Milk and Honey as Der Teufel Satan
- Ossis Tagebuch ... (Director)
- Der Blusenkönig
- The Merry Jail ... (Director)
- When Four Do the Same as Bit Role
1916
- Pinkus's Shoe Palace as Sally Pinkus
- Where Is My Treasure? as Ernst
- The Most Beautiful Gift as Verehrer
- The New Nose as Ernst
- The Mixed Ladies Chorus as Dirigent
- The Tenor, Inc. as Sally
- Doctor Satanson as Dr. Satansohn
1915
- Robert and Bertram as Kommis Max Edelstein
- Miss Soapsuds
- A Trip on the Ice as Ernst
- Sugar and Cinnamon
- Arme Maria as Commissioner Moritz Rosenthal
- Blind Cow as Verlobter
- The Bodybuilder as Stubenhocker
- Miss Bellboy as Pinkeles
- His Only Patient as Doktor
- How I Was Murdered
- The Last Suit
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
1912
- The Miracle as Spielmann
- Das Mirakel