Edward Bernds

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Edward Bernds (born July 12, 1905 in Chicago , Illinois , † May 20, 2000 in Van Nuys , California ) was an American director , sound engineer and screenwriter , who was best known for numerous B-movies .

Life

Bernds worked as a sound engineer in the 1920s , initially for radio stations in Chicago. There he met Howard Campbell , through whom he got a position at United Artists in Hollywood in 1928 . He later moved to Columbia Pictures , where he was a permanent member of Frank Capra .

He began his career as a director and screenwriter for Columbia Pictures in 1945 with the Three Stooges short film A Bird in the Head . However, this was only released after his second film Micro-Phonies . In the next twenty years he made nearly a hundred films, among other Three Stooges-movies, some Western and science fiction - trash films .

In 1957, Bernds and Elwood Ullman received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay. It was an oversight, however: John Patrick should have been nominated for The Top Ten Thousand , but it was confused with a film of the same name in which Ullman and Bernds were involved. The nomination was then withdrawn.

In 1999 Bernds published an autobiography called Mr. Bernds goes to Hollywood .

Filmography (selection)

Script and direction

  • 1945: Micro-Phonies
  • 1946: A Bird in the Head
  • 1955: High Society
  • 1956: Planet of Horror (World Without End)
  • 1957: Reckless and dangerous (Reform School Girl)
  • 1957: The Storm Rider
  • 1958: Escape from Red Rock
  • 1958: In the claws of Venus (Queen of Outer Space)
  • 1958: Space rocket X7 (Space Master X-7)
  • 1959: The Return of the Fly
  • 1962: Haut den Herkules (The three Stooges meet Hercules)

Script only

  • Reform School Girl (1994)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Scott Eyman : The speed of sound: Hollywood and the talkie revolution, 1926-1930 . Simon & Schuster, New York 1997. page 231
  2. ^ Raymond Carney: American vision: the films of Frank Capra . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1986, p. 273
  3. ↑ Michael R. Pitts: Columbia Pictures Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films, 1928-1982 . McFarland, Jefferson 2010, 329
  4. ↑ Bernds, Edward in: Lothar R. Just (Ed.): Film-Jahrbuch 2001 . Heyne, Munich 2001, page 642
  5. ↑ Josh Becker: Rushes . Wildside Press, Maryland 2008, 134
  6. ^ Oscar 1957. In: Zelluloid.de. Archived from the original on February 12, 2013 ; accessed on August 12, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Bernds, Edward
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American director, screenwriter, and sound engineer
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 2000
Place of death Van Nuys , California