Andrew Marton

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Andrew Marton (actually Endre Márton , born January 26, 1904 in Budapest , † January 7, 1992 in Santa Monica , California ) was a Hungarian-American director , film producer and editor . He directed 39 films and television programs, and 16 as an assistant director.

Life

After graduating from high school in 1922, Alfréd Deésy brought him to Sascha-Film in Vienna as an assistant editor . After a few months, he caught the attention of director Ernst Lubitsch , who convinced him to try his luck in Hollywood. In 1927 he returned to Europe and worked as editor-in-chief of Tobis in Berlin and later as an assistant director in Vienna. In 1929 he directed his first feature film, Two O'Clock in the Morning in Great Britain. In 1934 he made an expedition to Tibet, where he shot The Demon of the Himalayas .

As part of the “International Himalaya Expedition 1934” led by Günter Oskar Dyhrenfurth , Marton directed The Demon of the Himalaya . Gustav Diessl was the main actor and Richard Angst was the cameraman.

In 1935 he shot his only Hungarian film in Budapest. From 1936 to 1939 he worked with Alexander Korda in London .

After the beginning of the Second World War he went to the USA, where he initially worked mainly for the MGM studios . In 1954 he founded his own production company with Iván Törzs , Louis Meyer and László Benedek , where he worked until the mid-1970s. As a second unit director for William Wyler , he was jointly responsible for the famous chariot race in Ben Hur in 1959 .

Andrew Marton died at the age of 87.

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Kay Less : 'In life, more is taken from you than given ...'. Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. P. 331 ff., ACABUS-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Allmovie.com
  2. Richard Fear: The Demon of the Himalaya. Schweizer Film - Film Suisse: official organ of Switzerland., Accessed on June 7, 2020 .
  3. ^ Obituary for Andrew Marton The New York Times