Fritz Lang

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1890-12-05 (86 years old)

Deathday

1976-08-02

Place of Birth

Vienna, Austria

Fritz Lang

Biography

Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang (December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976) was an Austrian-German film director, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor. One of the best known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute. Andrew Sarris in his influential book of film criticism The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929–1968 included him in the "pantheon" of the 14 greatest film directors who had worked in the United States. Lang's most famous films are the groundbreaking science-fiction film Metropolis (1927) - the world's most expensive silent film ...

Acting

1963

Contempt

as Fritz Lang

2015

From Caligari to Hitler

as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

2010

Voyage to 'Metropolis'

as Self (archive footage)

2024

1964

Paparazzi

as Self

1964

Encounter with Fritz Lang

as Self - Interviewee

2009

1964

1989

The Exiles

as Self

Production

1927

Metropolis

as Director

1927

Metropolis

as Editor

1947

1947

1931

M

as Director

1931

M

as Screenplay

1929

Woman in the Moon

as Screenplay

1929

1929

1944

Ministry of Fear

as Director

1954

Human Desire

as Director

1953

1950

1922

1943

1943

1943

Hangmen Also Die!

as Original Story

1943

Hangmen Also Die!

as Adaptation

1941

Man Hunt

as Director

1959

1952

Clash by Night

as Director

1921

Destiny

as Director

1952

Rancho Notorious

as Director

1921

Destiny

as Writer

1953

The Big Heat

as Director

1936

Fury

as Director

1936

Fury

as Screenplay

1955

Moonfleet

as Director

1956

1941

Western Union

as Director

1934

Liliom

as Director

1945

Scarlet Street

as Director

1945

Scarlet Street

as Producer

1946

Cloak and Dagger

as Director

1938

You and Me

as Producer

1938

You and Me

as Director

1959

1937

1959

The Indian Tomb

as Director

1919

1919

Bettler GmbH

as Writer

1928

Spies

as Director

1920

1919

Harakiri

as Director

1921

1960

1919

1941

Confirm or Deny

as Co-Director

1927

Metropolis

as Screenplay

1928

Spies

as Writer

1919

Half-Blood

as Director

1919

Master of Love

as Director

1934

Liliom

as Writer

1951

M

as Original Story

1919

The Dance of Death

as Screenplay

1916

Die Peitsche

as Screenplay

1919

Half-Blood

as Screenplay

1924

1921

1920

1919

Lilith and Ly

as Writer

1982

M the Damned

as Original Film Writer

1953

The Black Vampire

as Original Film Writer

1942

Moontide

as Co-Director

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