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
- Encounter with Fritz Lang as Self - Interviewee
- Paparazzi as Self
- Bardot et Godard as Self
1963
- Contempt as Fritz Lang
1960
- The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse ... (Director)
- Journey to the Lost City ... (Screenplay)
1959
- The Indian Tomb ... (Writer)
- The Tiger of Eschnapur ... (Director)
1956
- While the City Sleeps ... (Director)
- Beyond a Reasonable Doubt ... (Director)
1955
- Moonfleet ... (Director)
1954
- Human Desire ... (Director)
1953
- The Big Heat ... (Director)
- The Blue Gardenia ... (Director)
- The Black Vampire ... (Original Film Writer)
1952
- Clash by Night ... (Director)
- Rancho Notorious ... (Director)
1951
- German Film Award as Self
- M ... (Original Story)
1950
- House by the River ... (Director)
- American Guerrilla in the Philippines ... (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! ... (Original Story)
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 ... (Screenplay)
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: Siegfried ... (Director)
- Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge ... (Director)
- The Film in the Film as Self
1922
- Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler ... (Screenplay)
1921
- Destiny ... (Writer)
- The Indian Tomb, Part II: The Tiger of Eschnapur ... (Writer)
- The Indian Tomb, Part I: The Mission of the Yoghi ... (Writer)
- Four Around the Woman ... (Director)
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
- The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea ... (Writer)
- The Dance of Death ... (Screenplay)
- Master of Love
- Harakiri ... (Director)
- Die Frau mit den Orchideen ... (Writer)
- Lilith and Ly ... (Writer)
- Wolkenbau und Flimmerstern ... (Writer)
- Bettler GmbH ... (Writer)
- The Plague in Florence ... (Screenplay)
- Half-Blood ... (Director)
- Die Rache ist mein ... (Writer)
1917
- Hilde Warren and Death
- Die Hochzeit im Excentricclub ... (Screenplay)
1916
- Die Peitsche ... (Screenplay)