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E.A. Dupont
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Ewald André Dupont (25 December 1891, Zeitz, Saxony, Germany – 12 December 1956, Hollywood) was a German film director, one of the founders of the German film industry. He was fre…
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Ewald André Dupont (25 December 1891, Zeitz, Saxony, Germany – 12 December 1956, Hollywood) was a German film director, one of the founders of the German film industry. He was frequently credited as E. A. Dupont. A newspaper columnist in 1916, Dupont became a screenwriter and began directing his own crime-story scripts in 1918. After several successes in his native Germany in silent films, he worked in London and in Hollywood, California. One of his greatest successes was the silent film Varieté (1925). This film, about an ex-trapeze artist, was noted for its innovative camerawork with highly expressive movement through space, accomplished by the prolific expressionist cinematographer Karl Freund. Varieté even did well in the United States, screening for 12 weeks at New York's Rialto Theatre. Dupont's success was noticed by Carl Laemmle at Universal, who offered Dupont a lucrative contract. His first project was Love Me and the World Is Mine in the early summer of 1926, which ran well over budget ($350,000) and was not a success. His film Piccadilly (1929), a late silent, is noted for the central performance of the Chinese-American actress Anna May Wong. Atlantic (also 1929) is seen as one of the most innovative uses of sound film technology available at the time. After his successes in the UK, Dupont returned to Hollywood in 1933, though he directed only a handful of films after 1939. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ewald André Dupont, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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1956
Please Murder Me
Movie Story
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1955
Magic Fire
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1954
Return to Treasure Island
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1953
The Steel Lady
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1953
The Neanderthal Man
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1953
Problem Girls
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1951
Pictura
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1951
The Scarf
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1939
Hell's Kitchen
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1937
Love on Toast
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1937
On Such a Night
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1937
Night of Mystery
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1936
A Son Comes Home
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1936
Forgotten Faces
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1935
The Bishop Misbehaves
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1933
Ladies Must Love
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1933
Der Läufer von Marathon
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1932
Peter Voss, Thief of Millions
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1931
Trapeze
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1931
Somersault
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1931
The Lost Course
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1931
Cape Forlorn
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1930
The Love Storm
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1930
Atlantic
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1930
Two Worlds
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1930
The Two Worlds
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1930
Two Worlds
Movie Story
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1929
Atlantic
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1929
Atlantic
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1929
Piccadilly
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1928
Moulin Rouge
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1927
Love Me and the World Is Mine
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1927
Madame Pompadour
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1925
Variety
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1925
Der Demütige und die Tänzerin
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1924
The Film in the Film
Movie Self
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1923
The Ancient Law
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1923
The Green Manuela
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1922
She and the Three
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1922
Children of Darkness - 2. Fighting Worlds
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