Douglas Sirk

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1897-04-26 (90 years old)

Deathday

1987-01-14

Place of Birth

Hamburg, Germany

Douglas Sirk

Biography

Douglas Sirk (born Hans Detlef Sierck; April 26, 1897 – January 14, 1987) was a German film director best known for his work in Hollywood melodramas in the 1950s.

Acting

2022

Douglas Sirk – Hope as in Despair

as Self (archive footage)

2023

Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed

as Self (archive footage)

2008

Acting for Douglas Sirk

as Self (archive footage)

2008

2010

Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense

as Self (archive footage)

Production

1947

Lured

as Director

1949

Shockproof

as Director

1959

1954

1955

1957

1953

All I Desire

as Director

1954

1956

1944

Summer Storm

as Adaptation

1944

Summer Storm

as Director

1948

Sleep, My Love

as Director

1957

Battle Hymn

as Director

1978

New Year's Eve

as Screenplay

1951

1937

To New Shores

as Writer

1937

To New Shores

as Director

1943

Hitler's Madman

as Director

1955

1953

Take Me to Town

as Director

1946

1952

1957

Interlude

as Director

1954

1951

1950

1936

1936

The Final Chord

as Director

1937

La Habanera

as Director

1979

1949

Slightly French

as Director

1935

April, April!

as Director

1951

The First Legion

as Director

1951

The First Legion

as Producer

1936

1934

1935

1939

Boefje

as Director

1934

Two Greyhounds

as Director

1978

New Year's Eve

as Director

1937

1953

1951

1944

Summer Storm

as Writer

1938

Dreiklang

as Writer

1938

Final Accord

as Director

1935

1936

1956

1937

1936

1946

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