Ernst Lubitsch

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1892-01-28 (55 years old)

Deathday

1947-11-30

Place of Birth

Berlin, Germany

Ernst Lubitsch

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...

Acting

1914

The Pride of the Firm

as Siegmund Lachmann

2015

From Caligari to Hitler

as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

1933

Mr. Broadway

as Ernst Lubitsch

1920

Sumurun

as Yeggar - the Hunchback Beggar

1915

Robert and Bertram

as Kommis Max Edelstein

1912

The Miracle

as Spielmann

1915

Miss Bellboy

as Pinkeles

1977

Hitler: A Career

as Self (archive footage)

1917

1916

Pinkus's Shoe Palace

as Sally Pinkus

1918

1939

Ninotchka

as Himself - Director in Trailer (uncredited)

1940

The Eternal Jew

as Self (archive footage)

1915

1915

Blind Cow

as Verlobter

1915

The Bodybuilder

as Stubenhocker

1916

1916

The New Nose

as Ernst

1915

1918

Prinz Sami

as Prinz Sami

1918

The Toboggan Cavalier

as Sally Piner

1919

Meyer from Berlin

as Sally Meyer

1916

Doctor Satanson

as Dr. Satansohn

1915

Arme Maria

as Commissioner Moritz Rosenthal

2017

100 Years of the UFA

as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Production

1932

1932

1942

1942

1939

Ninotchka

as Director

1983

1931

1931

1918

1932

1932

1934

The Merry Widow

as Director

1941

1917

The Merry Jail

as Director

1919

Madame DuBarry

as Director

1919

The Doll

as Director

1919

The Doll

as Writer

1926

So This Is Paris

as Director

1919

1919

1943

Heaven Can Wait

as Director

1946

Cluny Brown

as Director

1930

The Love Parade

as Director

1928

The Patriot

as Director

1920

Anna Boleyn

as Director

1920

Sumurun

as Director

1921

The Wildcat

as Director

1921

The Wildcat

as Writer

1922

1932

Broken Lullaby

as Director

1945

A Royal Scandal

as Producer

1933

1924

1930

Monte Carlo

as Director

1930

Monte Carlo

as Producer

1932

1925

1930

1929

Eternal Love

as Director

1928

1948

1918

Carmen

as Director

1919

1920

1923

Rosita

as Director

1916

1924

Three Women

as Director

1924

Three Women

as Writer

1924

1937

Angel

as Director

1917

1923

Die Flamme

as Director

1936

Desire

as Producer

1948

1924

1925

Kiss Me Again

as Director

1946

Dragonwyck

as Producer

1916

1918

1917

Ossis Tagebuch

as Director

1917

Der Blusenkönig

as Director

1915

1937

Angel

as Producer

1946

Cluny Brown

as Producer

1917

1933

1934

The Merry Widow

as Producer

1932

Broken Lullaby

as Producer

1928

The Patriot

as Producer

1928

The Patriot

as Editor

1943

Heaven Can Wait

as Producer

1939

Ninotchka

as Executive Producer

1915

Miss Soapsuds

as Director

1915

Miss Soapsuds

as Writer

1915

1915

1915

1915

1915

1915

Blind Cow

as Director

1915

Blind Cow

as Writer

1915

The Last Suit

as Director

1915

The Bodybuilder

as Director

1916

The Tenor, Inc.

as Director

1916

The New Nose

as Director

1916

The New Nose

as Writer

1915

His Only Patient

as Director

1918

Prinz Sami

as Director

1918

Prinz Sami

as Writer

1918

1918

1918

The Ballet Girl

as Director

1918

1919

1919

1919

Intoxication

as Director

1920

1926

1917

1917

1920

Sumurun

as Writer

1933

The Clerk

as Director

1933

The Clerk

as Writer

1930

The Vagabond King

as Co-Director

1941

1932

1932

If I Had a Million

as Production Supervisor

1923

1983

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