André de la Varre

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André de la Varre (born September 14, 1904 in Washington, DC ; † December 19, 1987 in Vienna ) was one of the leading travel filmmakers who began filming with a camera he had bought himself at the age of 17 after the end of the First World War .

Life

Until 1924, la Varre worked with Burton Holmes . In the 1930s he produced the short film series Screen Traveler in Sumatra , Java , Bali , the Philippines , France , the Mediterranean region, the Netherlands , Austria , Egypt and Palestine . During one of his trips he met his future wife Ilse in Austria. They married in 1933 and have now toured the world together.

André de la Varre's longstanding collaboration with Warner Brothers began in early 1943 with the films Snow Sports in Lake Placid and Tropical Sportland in Florida; at that time he only worked in Technicolor . As a narrator, he worked with the radio speakers Art Gilmore and Marvin Miller . In 1949 he filmed the Palio di Siena , one of the toughest horse races in the world, in his short film Grandad of Races , for which he received an Oscar in 1951 in the “Best Short Film” category.

Other notable film adaptations were the shorts That's Bully, about the running of the bulls in Pamplona (filmed in 1948 and released in 1950), Emperor's Horses (about the Lipizzaners in 1951), Carnival in Rio (1953) and Who's Who In The Zoo (1954). From 1954, la Varre began filming for Warner in Cinemascope . In Germany he shot the short film Time Stood Still about the city of Dinkelsbühl , which was nominated for an Oscar in 1957. Shortly before his death in 1958, there was a renewed collaboration with Burton Holmes.

Despite financial problems and a shrinking travelogue market, la Varre shot the 90-minute film These States in 1975 for the Bicentennial Council .

In 1976 de la Varre fell in love with the Reisenbachhof in Reisenberg . It was here that the idea for the television series Neues von Yesterday was born. André de la Varre, who lived in Vienna from 1956, also died there. He was buried on January 7, 1988 in the Hietzinger Friedhof .

Filmography

  • 1933: Cruising the Mediterranean (short documentation)
  • 1933: Glimpses of Picturesque Java (short documentation)
  • 1936: Along the Lifeline of the British Empire: Suez, Malta, Gibraltar (short documentation)
  • 1936: Bits of Brittany (short documentation)
  • 1936: Ceremonies in Bali (short documentation)
  • 1936: Cities of North Africa: Tunis, Algiers, Rabat (short documentation)
  • 1936: Colonial Williamsburg (short documentation)
  • 1936: Colorful Cairo (short documentation)
  • 1936: Damascus and Jerusalem (short documentation)
  • 1936: Nias and Sumatra, Islands of Netherlands India (short documentation)
  • 1936: Paris - La Ville Lumiere (short documentation)
  • 1936: Rambling in Vienna (short documentation)
  • 1936: Through Normandy to Mont St. Michel (short documentation)
  • 1937: Along the French Riviera (short documentation)
  • 1937: Ancient Cities of Southern France (short documentation)
  • 1937: Precious Herbs (short documentation)
  • 1937: Through the Pyrenees to Lourdes (short documentation)
  • 1938: A Journey to Normandy (short documentation)
  • 1938: An East Indian Island (short documentation)
  • 1938: A Voyage to Cebu (short documentation)
  • 1938: Cruising the West Indies: Nassau (short documentation)
  • 1938: Historic Sites and Resorts Along the Normandy Coast (short documentation)
  • 1938: Hong Kong: Gateway to China (short documentation)
  • 1938: Old Towns of Normandy (short documentation)
  • 1938: Rio de Janeiro (short documentation)
  • 1938: Venice (short documentation)
  • 1938: Manila: Queen City of the Pacific (short documentation)
  • 1939: Life in Paris (short documentation)
  • 1939, Beautiful Switzerland (short documentation)
  • 1939: In Morocco (short documentation)
  • 1940: New York Parade No. 1 (short documentation)
  • 1940: Sojourn in Havana (short documentation)
  • 1940: Islands of the West Indies (short documentation)
  • 1940: Savoy in the Alps (short documentation)
  • 1940: Historic Virginia (short documentation)
  • 1940: Unveiling Algeria (short documentation)
  • 1941: Alaska Tour (short documentation)
  • 1941: San Francisco, Metropolis of the West (short documentation)
  • 1941: Western Wonderland (short documentation)
  • 1941: From Singapore to Hong Kong (short documentation)
  • 1942: Oddities (short documentation)
  • 1942: Cajuns of the Teche (short documentation)
  • 1942: Great American Divide (short documentation)
  • 1943: Behind the Big Top (short documentation)
  • 1943: Tropical Sportland (short film)
  • 1943: Snow Sports (short film)
  • 1944: The Birds and the Beasts Were There (short documentary)
  • 1944: Let's Go Fishing (short film)
  • 1944: Baa, Baa, Blacksheep (short film)
  • 1944: Colorado Trout (short film)
  • 1944: Cattlemen's Days (short film)
  • 1944: Winner's Circle (short film)
  • 1944: Backyard Golf (short film)
  • 1944: Chinatown Champs (short film)
  • 1944: Dogie Roundup (short film)
  • 1945: Arabians in the Rockies (short film)
  • 1945: Bikes and Skis (short film)
  • 1945: Days of '76 (short film)
  • 1945: Water Babies (short film)
  • 1945: Swimcapades (short film)
  • 1945: Glamor in Sports (short film)
  • 1946: King of the Everglades (short documentation)
  • 1946: Beach Days (short film)
  • 1946: Girls and Flowers (short documentation)
  • 1946: Michigan Ski-Daddle (short film)
  • 1946: Holiday on Horseback (short documentation)
  • 1946: In Old Santa Fe (short documentation)
  • 1949: King of the Rockies (short documentation)
  • 1950: The Wanderers' Return (short documentary)
  • 1950: Wild Water Champions (short film)
  • 1950: Grandad of Races (short documentation)
  • 1950: Riviera Days (short documentation)
  • 1950: That's Bully (short documentation)
  • 1950: Let's Go Boating (short film)
  • 1951: Flight to Israel (short documentation) (uncredited)
  • 1951: The Seeing Eye (short documentary film)
  • 1952: Fiesta for Sports (short documentation)
  • 1952: Unfamiliar Sports (short documentation)
  • 1952: Warner Bros. Sports Parade: Just for Sports (short documentary)
  • 1952: Killers of the Swamp (documentary)
  • 1952: Snow Frolics (short film)
  • 1952: Switzerland Sportland (short film)
  • 1952: Sports Parade: Glamor in Tennis (short documentary)
  • 1952: Emperor's Horses (short documentation)
  • 1952: Dutch Treat in Sports (short film)
  • 1953: Don't Forget to Write (short documentation)
  • 1953: North of the Sahara (short documentation)
  • 1953: Danish Sport Delights (short documentation)
  • 1953: Under the Little Big Top (short documentary)
  • 1954: Where Winter Is King (short documentary)
  • 1954: In Fourteen Hundred and Ninety Two (short documentary)
  • 1954: Who's Who in the Zoo (short documentation)
  • 1954: Carnival in Rio (short documentation)
  • 1954: Continental Holiday (short documentation)
  • 1955: Springtime in Holland (short documentation)
  • 1955: The Golden Tomorrow (short documentary)
  • 1955: Ski Valley (short documentation)
  • 1955: Festival Days (short documentation)
  • 1955: Aqua Queens (short film)
  • 1955: Riviera Revelries (short documentation)
  • 1955: Football Royal (short film)
  • 1955: Caribbean Playgrounds (short documentary)
  • 1955: Silver Blades (short film)
  • 1956: Italian Memories (short documentation)
  • 1956: The Sporting Irish (short film)
  • 1956: The Wonders of Araby (short documentary)
  • 1956: Playtime Pals (short documentation)
  • 1956: South of the Himalayas (short documentation)
  • 1956: East Is East (short documentation)
  • 1956: Crossroads of the World (Documentation)
  • 1956: Time Stood Still (short film)
  • 1956: Fish Are Where You Find Them (short film)
  • 1957: Pearls of the Pacific (short documentation)
  • 1957: Tales of the Black Forest (short documentation)
  • 1957: Alpine Glory (short documentation)
  • 1957: The Blue Danube (short documentation)
  • 1957: Chasing the Sun (short documentation)
  • 1957: I'll Be Doggoned! (Short documentation)
  • 1963: A Wish and Ticino (short documentation)
  • 1964: Fabulous Spain (Documentation)
  • 1965: Grand Tour of London and Paris (by Day and by Night) (Documentation)
  • 1971: 21 Days in Europe

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Personalities in Reisenberg sS Reisenberg.gv.at
  2. ↑ Hollywood filmmaker André de la Varre sS Reisenberg.gv.at
  3. ^ Cemetery search Vienna see friedhoefewien.at
personal data
SURNAME de la Varre, André
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film director and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1987
Place of death Vienna