Fritz Lang filmography

Fritz Lang (1890–1976) was an Austrian film director, producer and screenwriter. In his early career, Lang 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 Mépris, 1963).[2]

Filmography

Films

Year Film Functioned as Notes
Director Producer Writer Actor
1919 Halbblut silent lost film
Master of Love
The Spiders – Part 1: The Golden Sea silent
Harakiri
1920 The Spiders – Part 2: The Diamond Ship
The Wandering Image
1921 Four Around a Woman
Destiny
1922 Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler – Part 1: The Great Gambler
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler – Part 2: Inferno
1924 Die Nibelungen – Part 1: Siegfried
Die Nibelungen – Part 2: Kriemhild's Revenge
1927 Metropolis
1928 Spies
1929 Woman in the Moon
1931 M
1933 The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
1934 Liliom
1936 Fury
1937 You Only Live Once
1938 You and Me
1940 The Return of Frank James
1941 Western Union
Man Hunt
1943 Hangmen Also Die!
1944 Ministry of Fear
The Woman in the Window
1945 Scarlet Street
1946 Cloak and Dagger
1947 Secret Beyond the Door
1950 House by the River
American Guerrilla in the Philippines
1952 Rancho Notorious
Clash by Night
1953 The Blue Gardenia
The Big Heat
1954 Human Desire
1955 Moonfleet
1956 While the City Sleeps
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
1959 The Tiger of Eschnapur
The Indian Tomb
1960 The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse

Contributions

Year Film Functioned as Notes
Writer Actor Other
1916 Die Peitsche
1917 Wedding in the Eccentric Club
Hilde Warren und der Tod
1918 Lilith und Ly
1919 Revenge Is Mine
Bettler GmbH
Wolkenbau und Flimmerstern
The Woman with Orchids
The Dance of Death Lost film
The Plague of Florence
1920 The Mistress of the World
1921 The Indian Tomb
1942 Moontide Lang left early in shooting, film direction is credited to Archie Mayo
1963 Contempt 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
  1. ^ Eisner, 1986. p. 407
  2. ^ a b Ankeny, Jason. "Fritz Lang > Biography – Allmovie". Allmovie. Retrieved March 12, 2010.
  3. ^ a b Grant, 2007. p. 71