Max Ophüls

Max Ophüls (May 6, 1902 – March 25, 1957) was a German-born film director. He was born Max Oppenheimer in Saarbrücken, Germany. For his work in the German theatre and film industry he used the pseudonym Ophüls, but later the umlaut was dropped occasionally when he worked in France and the United States. The credits of Letter from an Unknown Woman from 1948 list him as Max Opuls.

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May 6 - 1902 - March 25 - 1957 - German - Film director - Saarbrücken - Pseudonym - Umlaut - Letter from an Unknown Woman - 1948

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He started his career a stage actor but moved into theatre and then film production in the late 1920s. In 1927 his son Marcel Ophüls was born. He worked throughout Germany. He directed his first film in 1931 with the comedy short Dann schon lieber Lebertran. A Jew, he emigrated to France in 1933 and on through Switzerland and Italy to the USA in 1941. He returned to Europe in 1950. He died from rheumatic heart disease in Hamburg and is buried in Le Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. He had made just over twenty films.

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Theatre - 1920s - 1927 - Marcel Ophüls - Jew - France - Switzerland - Italy - USA - Le Père Lachaise Cemetery

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