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Edgar G. Ulmer

Directing

Born September 17, 1904 · Olmütz, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Olomouc, Czech Republic]

Died September 30, 1972

Also known as John Warner · Edgar George Ulmer · Edgar Georg Ulmer

Biography

Edgar Georg Ulmer was an Austrian film director who worked mainly in Hollywood B movies and other low-budget productions, eventually earning the epithet 'The King of PRC', due to his extremely prolific output for the Poverty Row studios. His stylish and eccentric works came to be appreciated by auteur theory-espousing film critics in the years following his retirement. Ulmer's most famous productions include the horror film The Black Cat (1934) and the film noir Detour (1945).

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Filmography45 titles

Metropolis

1927Set Designer

Sunrise

1927Assistant Art Director

The Last Laugh

1924Assistant Director, Production Design

Die Nibelungen: Siegfried

1924Set Designer

City Girl

1930Assistant Art Director

Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge

1924Set Designer

Spies

1928Set Designer

Detour

1945Director

People on Sunday

1930Director, Executive Producer

Tabu: A Story of the South Seas

1931Production Manager, Screenplay, Supervising Editor

The Golem

1920Set Designer

The World's Greatest Sinner

1962Director of Photography

The Pirates of Capri

1949Director

Queen Christina

1933Production Design

We Live Again

1934Writer

Lady Windermere's Fan

1925Art Direction

The Black Cat

1934Costume Design, Director, Set Designer, Story

Thunder Over Texas

1934Director

The Joyless Street

1925Set Designer

The Saga of Gösta Berling

1924Set Designer

Jive Junction

1943Director

Way Down South

1939Art Direction

Merry-Go-Round

1923Art Direction

The Naked Dawn

1955Director

The Strange Woman

1946Director, Writer

Beyond the Time Barrier

1960Director

Murder Is My Beat

1955Director

The Man from Planet X

1951Director

Daughter of Dr. Jekyll

1957Director

Carnegie Hall

1947Director

St. Benny the Dip

1951Director

Ruthless

1948Director

Hannibal

1959Director

Strange Illusion

1945Director

The Secret Six

1931Production Design

Bluebeard

1944Director

So Young, So Bad

1950Director

Isle of Forgotten Sins

1943Director, Screenplay

Prisoner of Japan

1942Story

Tomorrow We Live

1942Director

Girls in Chains

1943Director, Story

Damaged Lives

1933Director, Writer

Corregidor

1943Screenplay, Story

The Amazing Transparent Man

1960Director

Moon Over Harlem

1939Director, Producer