José Bohr

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1901-09-03 (93 years old)

Deathday

1994-05-29

Place of Birth

Bonn, Germany

José Bohr

Biography

Born in Germany on November 3, 1901 under the name of Joseph Bohr Elzer, the young José Bohr arrived with his family to colonize southern Chile in 1904. It was in the city of Punta Arenas where he began his precocious cinematographic and musical career, composing songs including the hymn "Punta Arenas", playing the piano for silent films and making his first film works before he was in his twenties. After emigrating to Santiago in 1921, he went to Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina, hired by the Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs to make a documentary. Later he settled in Buenos Aires, where he composed a good part of the 200 songs that swelled ...

Production

1970

1970

1948

Tonto Pillo

as Director

1942

P'al otro lado

as Director

1948

1948

1948

Tonto Pillo

as Producer

1947

1935

Luponini (El terror de Chicago)

as Original Music Composer

1938

1920

Mi noche alegre

as Director

1920

Mi noche alegre

as Screenplay

1920

Mi noche alegre

as Producer

1958

Procesado 1040

as Original Music Composer

1934

Who Killed Eve?

as Director

1939

A Macabre Legacy

as Director

1939

1939

A Macabre Legacy

as Original Music Composer

1939

1940

Borrasca humana

as Director

1940

Borrasca humana

as Original Music Composer

1940

1938

Canto a mi tierra

as Original Music Composer

1938

1938

Por mis pistolas

as Director

1936

Así es la mujer

as Director

1939

1939

El látigo

as Director

1944

Flor del Carmen

as Director

1949

1935

Sueño de amor

as Director

1948

1948

1950

Time Flies

as Director

1934

1934

Who Killed Eve?

as Producer

1934

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