E.A. Dupont

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1891-12-25 (65 years old)

Deathday

1956-12-12

Place of Birth

Zeitz - Germany

E.A. Dupont

Biography

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 b...

Acting

Production

1921

Die Geierwally

as Director

1921

Die Geierwally

as Screenplay

1920

Der weisse Pfau

as Director

1920

1953

Problem Girls

as Director

1953

1951

The Scarf

as Director

1956

1929

Piccadilly

as Director

1925

Variety

as Director

1929

Atlantic

as Director

1928

Moulin Rouge

as Director

1939

Hell's Kitchen

as Director

1937

Night of Mystery

as Director

1931

Cape Forlorn

as Screenplay

1931

Cape Forlorn

as Director

1931

Cape Forlorn

as Producer

1923

The Ancient Law

as Director

1951

Pictura

as Director

1930

The Love Storm

as Director

1928

Moulin Rouge

as Writer

1928

Moulin Rouge

as Producer

1923

1920

Patience

as Writer

1937

Love on Toast

as Director

1953

The Steel Lady

as Director

1925

Variety

as Screenplay

1935

1955

Magic Fire

as Screenplay

1929

Piccadilly

as Producer

1933

Ladies Must Love

as Director

1930

Two Worlds

as Director

1930

Two Worlds

as Producer

1930

Two Worlds

as Story

1929

Atlantic

as Producer

1922

1930

Two Worlds

as Director

1920

1919

Die Japanerin

as Screenplay

1919

Die Japanerin

as Director

1920

Alcohol

as Director

1930

Atlantic

as Director

1931

The Lost Course

as Director

1931

Trapeze

as Director

1927

1927

Madame Pompadour

as Producer

1920

1936

A Son Comes Home

as Director

1951

The Scarf

as Screenplay

1937

On Such a Night

as Director

1918

1920

Alcohol

as Writer

1917

1930

The Two Worlds

as Director

1918

Rennfieber

as Writer

1918

Mitternacht

as Director

1918

Mitternacht

as Writer

1918

Ferdinand Lassalle

as Screenplay

1929

Atlantic

as Director

1929

Atlantic

as Writer

1931

Somersault

as Director

1936

Forgotten Faces

as Director

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