Joe May

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1880-11-07 (74 years old)

Deathday

1954-04-29

Place of Birth

Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]

Joe May

Biography

Joe May, born Julius Otto Mandl, was a film director, screenwriter and producer. He was one of the pioneers of German cinema. In 1902 he married the actress Mia May, born Hermine Pfleger, and adapted her stage name as his. The same year their daughter Eva (1902-24) was born. In 1933 the family emigrated to USA.

Acting

1937

Play! Girls

as Band Leader Joe May

Production

1917

Die Kaukasierin

as Director

1917

1937

Confession

as Director

1929

Asphalt

as Writer

1929

Asphalt

as Director

1934

Music in the Air

as Director

1915

1928

Homecoming

as Director

1928

Homecoming

as Scenario Writer

1917

1939

1933

Her Majesty Love

as Director

1915

1917

1918

1919

Veritas vincit

as Director

1940

1918

Das Opfer

as Producer

1918

Das Opfer

as Writer

1918

Das Opfer

as Director

1920

Der Amönenhof

as Screenplay

1920

Der Amönenhof

as Producer

1950

1944

1939

1933

Her Majesty Love

as Producer

1941

Hit the Road

as Director

1940

The Invisible Woman

as Original Story

1913

1913

Heimat und Fremde

as Screenplay

1930

The Last Company

as Producer

1933

A Song for You

as Director

1925

1916

Nebel und Sonne

as Screenplay

1916

Nebel und Sonne

as Producer

1916

Nebel und Sonne

as Director

1923

1923

1934

1933

All for Love

as Director

1933

Honeymoon Trip

as Director

1931

1932

Companion Wanted

as Director

1932

Two in a Car

as Producer

1932

Two in a Car

as Director

1932

Two in a Car

as Production Manager

1928

1918

1918

1915

1915

1918

1919

1919

1921

Tobias Buntschuh

as Creative Director

1918

Die Ratte

as Director

1919

1919

1917

Ehre

as Director

1917

Ehre

as Writer

1916

1916

1926

Dagfin

as Director

1926

Dagfin

as Writer

1920

1928

Homecoming

as Writer

1928

Homecoming

as Editor

1926

Derby

as Director

1926

1929

1935

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