Fritz Lang
Born: 1890-12-05 in Vienna, Austria
Died: 1976-08-02
Known For: Directing
Biography
Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang (December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976) was an Austrian-German film director, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor. One of the best known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute. 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. Lang's most famous films are the groundbreaking science-fiction film Metropolis (1927) - the world's most expensive silent film at the time of its release - and the influential thriller film M (1931), made before he moved to the United States. Lang's work had a significant influence on the film noir genre and in Hollywood, he made some classics himself, such as Scarlet Street (1945) and The Big Heat (1953).
Filmography
2025
- Sibyl as (Archive footage)
2017
2015
- From Caligari to Hitler as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2010
- Voyage to 'Metropolis' as Self (archive footage)
2007
- The Word According to Whoopi ... (Sound Mixer)
2004
- Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands as Self (archive footage)
2002
- Das Jahrhundert des Theaters as Self (archive footage)
1990
1989
- The Exiles as Self
1982
- M the Damned ... (Original Film Writer)
1975
- Film Emigration from Nazi Germany as Self
- Conversation with Fritz Lang as Self
1967
- The Dinosaur and the Baby as Self
1964
- Bardot et Godard as Self
- Paparazzi as Self
- Encounter with Fritz Lang as Self - Interviewee
1963
- Contempt as Fritz Lang
1960
- The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse ... (Director)
- Journey to the Lost City ... (Director)
1959
- The Indian Tomb ... (Writer)
- The Tiger of Eschnapur ... (Director)
1956
- Beyond a Reasonable Doubt ... (Director)
- While the City Sleeps ... (Director)
1955
- Moonfleet ... (Director)
1954
- Human Desire ... (Director)
1953
- The Black Vampire ... (Original Film Writer)
- The Big Heat ... (Director)
- The Blue Gardenia ... (Director)
1952
- Rancho Notorious ... (Director)
- Clash by Night ... (Director)
1951
- German Film Award as Self
- M ... (Original Story)
1950
- American Guerrilla in the Philippines ... (Director)
- House by the River ... (Director)
1947
- Secret Beyond the Door ... (Director)
1946
- Cloak and Dagger ... (Director)
1945
- Scarlet Street ... (Director)
1944
- The Woman in the Window ... (Director)
- Ministry of Fear ... (Director)
1943
- Hangmen Also Die! ... (Director)
1942
- Moontide ... (Co-Director)
1941
- Western Union ... (Director)
- Man Hunt ... (Director)
- Confirm or Deny ... (Co-Director)
1940
- The Return of Frank James ... (Director)
1938
- You and Me ... (Director)
1937
- You Only Live Once ... (Director)
1936
- Fury ... (Director)
1934
- Liliom ... (Director)
1933
- The Testament of Dr. Mabuse ... (Director)
- The Testament of Dr. Mabuse ... (Director)
1931
- M ... (Director)
1929
- Woman in the Moon ... (Director)
1928
- Spies ... (Director)
1927
- Metropolis ... (Director)
1924
- Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge ... (Director)
- Die Nibelungen: Siegfried ... (Director)
- The Film in the Film as Self
1922
- Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler ... (Director)
1921
- The Indian Tomb, Part I: The Mission of the Yoghi ... (Writer)
- Destiny ... (Director)
- Four Around the Woman ... (Director)
- The Indian Tomb, Part II: The Tiger of Eschnapur ... (Writer)
1920
- The Spiders: Part 2 - The Diamond Ship ... (Director)
- The Mistress of the World, Part VIII: The Revenge of Maud Fergusson ... (Writer)
- The Wandering Image ... (Director)
1919
- Harakiri ... (Director)
- The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea ... (Director)
- Half-Blood ... (Director)
- Wolkenbau und Flimmerstern ... (Writer)
- The Plague in Florence ... (Screenplay)
- Bettler GmbH ... (Writer)
- Lilith and Ly ... (Writer)
- The Dance of Death ... (Screenplay)
- Die Rache ist mein ... (Writer)
- Master of Love
- Die Frau mit den Orchideen ... (Writer)
1917
- Hilde Warren and Death
- Die Hochzeit im Excentricclub ... (Screenplay)
1916
- Die Peitsche ... (Screenplay)