Ewald André Dupont

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Ewald André Dupont (born as Ewald Andreas Dupont ; * December 25, 1891 in Zeitz ; † December 12, 1956 in Los Angeles ) was a German film director and screenwriter .

Live and act

Dupont's father was editor-in-chief at the Berliner Illustrirten Zeitung . After his time at the university, Dupont became editor of the Berliner Morgenpost in 1911 . Since he was friends with various people from film, he turned to film and in 1916 the first screenplays for detective films were made. From 1918 Dupont was then a member of the editorial board of the journal Der Film .

Dupont worked as a journalist on a film section for BZ am Mittag before writing scripts for Richard Oswald , Joe May and Paul Leni . His first directorial work was in 1918, a twelve-part detective series starring Max Landa . Commissioned by and for Henny Porten , he created a film adaptation of Die Geierwally in 1921 . The highlight of his film work was the silent film Varieté (1925) with Emil Jannings and Lya de Putti , a jealous drama in the circus environment that became a global success.

He then received engagements in the USA and Great Britain from 1926 , where he made early sound films in various language versions until 1931. In London in 1929, Dupont directed the first German-language sound film with the drama Atlantik . After a brief return to Germany emigrated Jewish director in 1933 over England in the USA into exile . From 1939 he worked as a journalist and in the following years worked mainly as a writer and director for B-films and television series. He also ran an agency for film talent. He could no longer build on his earlier successes.

Dupont was married to the actress Gretl Dupont . He died shortly before his 65th birthday as a result of his cancer.

Filmography (selection)

Director

Screenwriter

literature

  • Jürgen Bretschneider (Red.): Ewald André Dupont, author and director (= A CineGraph book ). edition text + kritik, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-88377-429-4 .
  • 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. Acabus-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 142 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Karlheinz Wendtland: Beloved Kintopp. All German feature films from 1929–1945 with numerous artist biographies born in 1929 and 1930, Verlag Medium Film Karlheinz Wendtland, Berlin, first edition 1988, second revised edition 1990, p. 13, film 1/1929 - Ewald Andreas Dupont - ISBN 3-926945- 10-9 .
personal data
SURNAME Dupont, Ewald André
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Time
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1956
Place of death los Angeles