Fritz Lang filmography
Fritz Lang (1890–1976) was an Austrian film director, producer and screenwriter. In Lang's early career he worked primarily as a screenwriter, finishing film scripts in four to five days.[1] Lang directed major German films of the silent and early sound eras including Metropolis (1927) and M (1931) respectively.[2][3] After fleeing from the Nazi regime, Lang directed some of the most important American crime and film noir motion pictures of the studio era, such as The Big Heat (1953).[3] Lang appeared as himself in Jean-Luc Godard's Contempt (Le Mepris, 1963).[2]
Filmography
Films
Year | Film | Functioned as | Notes | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Director | Producer | Writer | Actor | |||
1919 | Halbblut | Yes | Yes | silent lost film | ||
Master of Love | Yes | Yes | ||||
The Spiders – Part 1: The Golden Sea | Yes | Yes | silent | |||
Harakiri | Yes | |||||
1920 | The Spiders – Part 2: The Diamond Ship | Yes | Yes | |||
The Wandering Image | Yes | Yes | ||||
1921 | Four Around a Woman | Yes | Yes | |||
Destiny | Yes | Yes | ||||
1922 | Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler – Part 1: The Great Gambler | Yes | Yes | |||
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler – Part 2: Inferno | Yes | Yes | ||||
1924 | Die Nibelungen – Part 1: Siegfried | Yes | Yes | |||
Die Nibelungen – Part 2: Kriemhild's Revenge | Yes | |||||
1927 | Metropolis | Yes | Yes | |||
1928 | Spies | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
1929 | Woman in the Moon | Yes | Yes | |||
1931 | M | Yes | ||||
1933 | The Testament of Dr. Mabuse | Yes | Yes | |||
1934 | Liliom | Yes | Yes | |||
1936 | Fury | Yes | Yes | |||
1937 | You Only Live Once | Yes | ||||
1938 | You and Me | Yes | Yes | |||
1940 | The Return of Frank James | Yes | ||||
1941 | Western Union | Yes | ||||
Man Hunt | Yes | |||||
1943 | Hangmen Also Die! | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
1944 | Ministry of Fear | Yes | ||||
The Woman in the Window | Yes | |||||
1945 | Scarlet Street | Yes | Yes | |||
1946 | Cloak and Dagger | Yes | ||||
1947 | Secret Beyond the Door | Yes | Yes | |||
1950 | House by the River | Yes | ||||
American Guerrilla in the Philippines | Yes | |||||
1952 | Rancho Notorious | Yes | ||||
Clash by Night | Yes | |||||
1953 | The Blue Gardenia | Yes | ||||
The Big Heat | Yes | |||||
1954 | Human Desire | Yes | ||||
1955 | Moonfleet | Yes | ||||
1956 | While the City Sleeps | Yes | ||||
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt | Yes | |||||
1959 | The Tiger of Eschnapur | Yes | Yes | |||
The Indian Tomb | Yes | Yes | ||||
1960 | The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse | Yes | Yes |
Contributions
Year | Film | Functioned as | Notes | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Writer | Actor | Other | |||
1916 | Die Peitsche [de] | Yes | |||
1917 | Wedding in the Eccentric Club | Yes | |||
Hilde Warren und der Tod | Yes | ||||
1918 | Lilith und Ly | Yes | |||
1919 | Revenge Is Mine | Yes | |||
Bettler GmbH | Yes | ||||
Wolkenbau und Flimmerstern | Yes | ||||
The Woman with Orchids | Yes | ||||
The Dance of Death | Yes | Lost film | |||
The Plague of Florence | Yes | ||||
1920 | The Mistress of the World | Yes | |||
1921 | The Indian Tomb | Yes | |||
1942 | Moontide | Yes | Lang left early in shooting, film direction is credited to Archie Mayo | ||
1963 | Contempt | Yes | Lang plays himself |
Notes
- General
- "Fritz Lang > Filmography". Allmovie. Retrieved March 12, 2010.
- McGilligan, Patrick (June 1997). Fritz Lang: the nature of the beast. St. Martin's Press. pp. 483–503. ISBN 0-312-19454-4.
- Eisner, Lotte H (1986). Fritz Lang. Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-80271-6. Retrieved March 12, 2010.
- Grant, Barry Keith (2007). Film genre: from iconography to ideology. Wallflower Press. ISBN 978-1-904764-79-3. Retrieved March 12, 2010.
- Specific
- ^ Eisner, 1986. p. 407
- ^ a b Ankeny, Jason. "Fritz Lang > Biography – Allmovie". Allmovie. Retrieved March 12, 2010.
- ^ a b Grant, 2007. p. 71
External links
- Fritz Lang at IMDb
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Films directed by Fritz Lang
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- Halbblut (1919)
- Der Herr der Liebe (1919)
- The Spiders, Part 1 (1919)
- Harakiri (1919)
- The Spiders, Part 2 (1920)
- The Wandering Image (1920)
- Four Around a Woman (1921)
- Destiny (1921)
- Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922)
- Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924)
- Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache (1924)
- Metropolis (1927)
- Spione (1928)
- Woman in the Moon (1929)
- M (1931)
- The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
- Liliom (1934)
- Fury (1936)
- You Only Live Once (1937)
- You and Me (1938)
- The Return of Frank James (1940)
- Western Union (1941)
- Man Hunt (1941)
- Hangmen Also Die! (1943)
- Ministry of Fear (1944)
- The Woman in the Window (1944)
- Scarlet Street (1945)
- Cloak and Dagger (1946)
- Secret Beyond the Door (1947)
- House by the River (1950)
- American Guerrilla in the Philippines (1950)
- Rancho Notorious (1952)
- Clash by Night (1952)
- The Blue Gardenia (1953)
- The Big Heat (1953)
- Human Desire (1954)
- Moonfleet (1955)
- While the City Sleeps (1956)
- Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)
- The Tiger of Eschnapur (1959)
- The Indian Tomb (1959)
- The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960)