Edward Ludwig

Edward Irving Ludwig , at the beginning of his career Edward I. Luddy , born Isidor Litwack , (born October 7, 1899 in Balta , Russian Empire , today Ukraine ; † August 20, 1982 in Santa Monica , California , United States ) was a Russian-born, US -american film director and screenwriter .

Life

Born Isidor Litwack, he came to the United States from Russia in 1911, where he applied for naturalization in California on October 28, 1931. At this point he had already completed his school days in Canada and New York, had earned a few dollars as a silent film actor for the Vitagraph production company , and from 1920 onwards he tried to create story templates for scripts and as a short film director. Litwack directed his short films under the pseudonym Edward I. Luddy. In 1932, the year in which Litwack was to be naturalized under the name Edward Ludwig, he began his actual career as a director of longer B-films.

Until the outbreak of the Second World War, Ludwig's directing career remained largely flat, it was only with his staging of the family story “ The Island of the Lost ” in 1940 that Edward Ludwig first drew a little attention. From then on, the Californian by choice turned straightforward but straightforward cheap films; Adventure stories, war films and men’s stuff, in which he could occasionally fall back on A-Star John Wayne ( “ Alarm in the Pacific ”, “Under the spell of the red witch”, “Marihuana ”). After about a decade and a half, Ludwig's cinema career petered out again; his preliminary farewell performance in 1957 was the cheap animal horror about monster scorpions running amok, " The Black Scorpion ".

From then on Ludwig found employment in television. In the series " The Restless Gun " (1957-1959) with John Payne in the lead role, with whom Ludwig had previously worked several times in movies, and " The Texaner " (1959/60) with Rory Calhoun , he found regular employment. Ludwig returned to the cinema for the last time in 1963 for the Calhoun western " City without Sheriff ", and in 1966 he finally retired.

cinemamovies

until 1932 short film director, then feature film director

• 1920: Rocked to Sleep
• 1921: Rip Van Winkle
• 1922: The Man Who Waited
• 1924: Lost Control
• 1924: Paging Money
• 1924: Speed ​​Boys
• 1924: Sweet Dreams
• 1924: Broadway Beauties
• 1925: My Baby Doll
• 1925: Just in Time
• 1925: So Long Bill
• 1925: Won by Law
• 1926: Flying Wheels
• 1926: Painless Pains
• 1926: Working Winnie
• 1927: Winnie Wakes Up
• 1927: Spuds
• 1927: Jake the Plumber
• 1928: Hollywood or Bust
• 1928: Fun in the Clouds
• 1929: Love and Sand
• 1929: At the Front
• 1931: Julius Sizzer
• 1931: The Messenger Boy
• 1932: Steady Company
• 1934: Let's with Rizzy
• 1934: Friends of Mr. Sweeney
• 1935: Age of Indiscretion
• 1935: Old Man Rhythm
• 1936: Fatal Lady
• 1936: Adventure in Manhattan
• 1937: Her Husband Lies
• 1937: The Last Gangster ( The Last Gangster )
• 1938: That Certain Age
• 1939: Coast Gard
• 1940: The Island of the Lost ( Swiss Family Robinson )
• 1941: The Man Who Lost Himself
• 1942: Born to Sing
• 1943: They Came to Blow Up America
• 1943: Bomber's Moon
• 1944: Alarm in the Pacific ( The Fighting Seabees )
• 1944: Three Is a Family
• 1947: Burning border ( The Fabulous Texan )
• 1948: In the Wake of the Red Witch ( Wake of the Red Witch )
• 1949: The death curve ( The Big Wheel )
• 1951: Pirates of Macau ( Smuggler's Island )
• 1952: Marijuana ( Big Jim McLain )
• 1952: Escape from the Fire ( The Blazing Forest )
• 1952: The Corsair's Lover ( Caribbean )
• 1953: Geknechtet ( The Vanquished )
• 1953: Sangaree ( Sangaree )
• 1954: The treasure of the Jivaros ( Jivaro )
• 1955: Island of the Passion ( Flame of the Islands )
• 1957: The Black Scorpion
• 1963: City without a Sheriff ( The Gun Hawk )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Litwack on ancestry.com

literature

• Ephraim Katz : The Film Encyclopedia, 4th Edition. Revised by Fred Klein & Ronald Dean Nolen, p. 853, New York 2001

Web links

• Edward Ludwig in the Internet Movie Database (English)