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| Hungarian, best known for his portrayal of Count Dracula |
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Jewish-American journalist, screenwriter, film director, and producer whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. He Directed Sunset Blvd.
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| was an English actor, who migrated to Canada in the 1910s, best known for his roles in horror films and his portrayal of Frankenstein's monster in 1931 film Frankenstein. His popularity following Frankenstein in the early 1930s was such that for a brief time he was billed simply as "Karloff" or, on some movie posters, "Karloff the Uncanny". |
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| was a screenplay writer who wrote or co-wrote the screenplays to The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari (1920), Der Letzte Mann (1924), and Sunrise (1927), the last two being films directed by F. W. Murnau. Shortly after working with Béla Balázs on the script for The Blue Light (1932), Mayer moved to London to escape the Nazi regime in 1933, and died there in 1944. |
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| He was known for extreme character makeups. He and tod browny made a series of movies, the miracle man, unknown. The penalty. Lon Chaney made one sound picture |
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| was an English theatre and film actor, who later held American citizenship, best known for his many roles in Hollywood films. |
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| was a British stage and screen actor who portrayed Dr. Frankenstein in James Whale's two Universal Frankenstein films Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein. |
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was an American motion picture producer, director, screenwriter, actor and editor (often performing many of these functions simultaneously). In the 1950s, Wood made a run of independently produced, extremely low-budget horror, science fiction and cowboy films, now celebrated for their technical errors, unsophisticated special effects, idiosyncratic dialogue, eccentric casts, and outlandish plot elements, although his flair for showmanship gave his productions at least a modicum of commercial success.
Wood's popularity waned soon after his biggest "name" star, Béla Lugosi, died. He was able to salvage a saleable feature from Lugosi's last moments on film, but his career declined thereafter. Toward the end, Wood made pornography and wrote pulp crime, horror, and sex novels. His posthumous fame began two years after his death, when he was awarded a Golden Turkey Award as Worst Director of All Time.[1] The lack of conventional filmmaking ability in his work has earned Wood and his films a considerable cult following.
Following the publication of Rudolph Grey's biography Nightmare of Ecstasy, Wood's life and work have undergone a public rehabilitation, with new light shed on his evident zeal and honest love of movies and movie production, and Tim Burton's biopic, Ed Wood, earned two Academy Awards -- an unattainable honor for Wood himself. |
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| was an Austrian - American star of the silent film age, lauded for his directional work in which he was a proto-auteur. As an actor, he is noted for his arrogant Teutonic character parts which led him to be described as "not a character actor, but what a character!". Playing villainous hun roles during the Great War, he became known as "The Man You Love to Hate". |
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| Directed Metropolis, wrote M, |
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| was an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning American Hollywood actress. She was prolific during the silent film era, but her career declined with the advent of "talkies". She is now best known for her comeback role in the film Sunset Boulevard (1950), in which—mirroring her own life—she portrayed a former silent movie star largely forgotten by audiences of the day. |
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| Shortly after the war ended, he met the similarly minded Carl Mayer in Berlin, who suggested he work as an author. Together they wrote the script to The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari), which was filmed by Robert Wiene during 1919 and 1920. The movie is a prominent work of German expressionism. Supposedly, the film was at first offered to director Fritz Lang, in the early part of his career, who suggested the now-famous framing story of the madman remembering his past, who then recounts the tale of a girl's mysterious murder, first read about by Janowitz in a newspaper account. The two young scriptwriters protested the change, but it was made anyway over their objections, and Lang left the project to direct another film. Wiene was then hired to direct the film. |
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was an American film actor and producer, most famous for his silent comedies.Harold Lloyd ranks alongside Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton as one of the most popular and influential film comedians of the silent film era. Lloyd made nearly 200 comedy films, both silent and "talkies", between 1914 and 1947. He is best known for his "Glasses Character", a resourceful, success-seeking go-getter who was perfectly in tune with 1920s era America.
His films frequently contained "thrill sequences" of extended chase scenes and daredevil physical feats, for which he is best remembered today. Lloyd hanging from the hands of a clock high above the street in Safety Last! (1923) is one of the most enduring images in all of cinema. Lloyd did many of these dangerous stunts himself, despite having injured himself during the filming of Haunted Spooks (1920) when an accident with a prop bomb resulted in the loss of the thumb and index finger of his right hand (the injury was disguised on film with the use of a special prosthetic glove, though the glove often did not go by unnoticed). |
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was an American comedian who appeared in vaudeville, silent films (where he had his greatest fame), and talkies. he began working in vaudeville then joined Vitagraph Movie Studios. He eventually went over to Keystone Studios where he became a major star. At the height of his film career he was considered one of the four best comics of the silent film era. His screen character was that of a wide-eyed, childlike man with an innocent's understanding of the world and the people in it. He was a first-class pantomimist.
Most of Langdon's 1920s work was produced at the famous Mack Sennett studio. His screen character was so unique, and his antics so different from the broad Sennett slapstick, that he soon had a following. Success led him into feature films, directed by Arthur Ripley and Frank Capra. When Langdon had such good directors guiding him, he produced work that rivaled Charlie Chaplin's, Harold Lloyd's, and Buster Keaton's. His best films were The Strong Man (1926) and Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1926).
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1932 - Vampyr
1928 - La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc
1921 - Destiny
1919 - The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
1919 - Die Spinnen |
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| was a Hollywood make-up artist most famous for creating the iconic make-up worn by Boris Karloff in Universal Studios' 1931 adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. |
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| was a ground-breaking British film director, best known for his work in the horror movie genre, making such pictures as Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, and The Invisible Man. [1] |
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as a German cinematographer and film director.
Born in Königinhof, Bohemia, his career began in 1905 when, at age 15, he got a job as an assistant projectionist for a film company in Berlin.
He worked as a cinematographer on over 100 films, including The Last Laugh (1924) and Metropolis (1927) in Germany. Freund emigrated to the United States in 1929 where he filmed additional classics such as Dracula (1931), and Key Largo (1948). He won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography for The Good Earth (1937). The US version of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919) credits him as photographer.
Between 1921 and 1935, Freund also directed ten films, of which the best known are probably The Mummy (1932) starring Boris Karloff, and his last film as director, Mad Love (1935) starring Peter Lorre.
In the 1950s, at the height of his movie career, he was persuaded by Desi Arnaz to be the cinematographer for Arnaz's television series I Love Lucy; critics have credited Freund for the show's lustrous black and white cinematography.
Freund's only known film as an actor is Carl Dreyer's Michael (1924) where he plays a sycophantic art dealer who we see saving the tobacco ashes dropped by a famous painter. |
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was a film director, screenwriter and producer. e began in the movie business as an assistant director to Tod Browning in 1920, but honed his skills at the Hal Roach Studio for the rest of that decade. Hired by Roach in 1923, McCarey initially wrote gags for Our Gang series and other studio stars, then produced and directed shorts-including a string of inventive and hilarious two-reelers with Charley Chase. It was while at Roach that McCarey teamed Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy together for the first time, thus creating one of the most enduring comedy teams of all time. He only officially appeared as director of the duo shorts We Faw Down (1928), Liberty (1929) and Wrong Again (1929), but wrote many of the screenplays. By 1929, he was vice-president of production for the entire studio.
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| Harold created a character called "Lonesome Luke" which was popular with the public, but after playing Luke for several years he began to feel his screen character needed a change of direction. |
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| was an innovator of slapstick comedy in film. During his lifetime he was known at times as the "King of Comedy." |
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| was an American actor, most remembered for his role in one of the world's most famous double acts, Laurel and Hardy, with his friend Stan Laurel. [1] |
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