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)
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
- The Clerk ... (Director)
- Design for Living ... (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 Last Command ... (Writer)
- The Patriot ... (Director)
- The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg ... (Director)
1927
- Life in Hollywood as Self
1926
- The Honeymoon Express ... (Director)
- So This Is Paris ... (Director)
1925
- Lady Windermere's Fan ... (Director)
- Kiss Me Again ... (Director)
1924
- Three Women ... (Writer)
- The Marriage Circle ... (Director)
- Forbidden Paradise ... (Director)
1923
- Rosita ... (Director)
- Screen Tests for Faust ... (Director)
- Die Flamme ... (Director)
1922
- The Loves of Pharaoh ... (Director)
1921
- The Wildcat ... (Director)
1920
- Anna Boleyn ... (Director)
- Sumurun as Yeggar - the Hunchback Beggar
- Romeo and Juliet in the Snow ... (Director)
- Kohlhiesel's Daughters ... (Director)
- The Housing Shortage ... (Writer)
1919
- The Oyster Princess ... (Director)
- The Doll as Director in Prologue (uncredited)
- Madame DuBarry ... (Director)
- The Swabian Maiden ... (Director)
- Käsekönig Holländer
- My Wife, the Movie Star ... (Director)
- Intoxication ... (Director)
- Meyer from Berlin as Sally Meyer
1918
- The Ballet Girl ... (Director)
- The Eyes of the Mummy ... (Director)
- Fuhrmann Henschel ... (Director)
- Carmen ... (Director)
- The Rosentopf Case as Sally
- I Don't Want to Be a Man ... (Writer)
- The Toboggan Cavalier as Sally Piner
- Prinz Sami as Prinz Sami
1917
- Der Blusenkönig
- Hans Trutz in the Land of Milk and Honey as Der Teufel Satan
- The Merry Jail ... (Director)
- When Four Do the Same as Bit Role
- Ossis Tagebuch ... (Director)
1916
- Doctor Satanson as Dr. Satansohn
- Where Is My Treasure? as Ernst
- The Mixed Ladies Chorus as Dirigent
- The Most Beautiful Gift as Verehrer
- Pinkus's Shoe Palace as Sally Pinkus
- The Tenor, Inc. as Sally
- The New Nose as Ernst
1915
- The Bodybuilder as Stubenhocker
- Miss Soapsuds
- Miss Bellboy as Pinkeles
- Blind Cow as Verlobter
- How I Was Murdered
- Sugar and Cinnamon
- The Last Suit
- His Only Patient as Doktor
- Robert and Bertram as Kommis Max Edelstein
- A Trip on the Ice as Ernst
- Arme Maria as Commissioner Moritz Rosenthal
1914
- The Pride of the Firm as Siegmund Lachmann
- The Firm Gets Married as Moritz Abramowski / Siegmund Lachmann (Lehrling)
- A Venetian Night
1913
- The Ideal Wife as Krispin
1912
- Das Mirakel
- The Miracle as Spielmann