Fritz Brunn

Fritz Brunn , even Frederic Andre Brune and Frederick Brunn (* 23. July 1903 in Vienna , † 23. April 1955 in Los Angeles ) was an Austrian-American actor , manager and film producer .

Life

Brunn came to Germany shortly after the end of the First World War and made a number of film appearances there in the early 1920s. From 1926 he was hired by several production companies as a production manager. From 1929 to 1933 he worked mainly for the productions of Géza von Bolváry . After filming (February 1933) of What Women Dream was finished, the Jew Brunn was no longer employed.

Brunn first emigrated to London , where he helped Karl Grune directing the film The Marriage of Corbal in the winter of 1935/36 and immediately took over the production management of Green 's film operetta Der Bajazzo with Richard Tauber in the title role.

In 1937 Brunn went to France and produced two films under the trademark F. Brun in the next two years, directed by Richard Oswald and Abel Gances . Two and a half weeks after the outbreak of World War II, Brunn fled to the USA. Shortly after the country entered the war, he was given numerous minor roles as a Nazi villain - almost without any naming - and played alongside Hollywood stars such as Errol Flynn , Humphrey Bogart and Gary Cooper . In order to increase his livelihood a little, Brunn also worked as a taxi driver at times. Soon after the war ended in 1945, he was hardly employed any more.

Filmography

as a unit manager, unless otherwise stated

• 1926: The Sporck hunters
• 1927: One plus one equals three
• 1927: Maria Stuart
• 1928: Schinderhannes
• 1928: Two red roses
• 1928: Princess Olala
• 1928: Sex in chains
• 1928: I kiss your hand, Madame
• 1929: The merry widower
• 1929: The man game
• 1929: father and son
• 1930: delicacies
• 1930: Two hearts in three-quarter time
• 1930: a tango for you
• 1930: The King of Paris
• 1930: The song is over
• 1931: The merry women of Vienna
• 1931: The robbery of the Mona Lisa
• 1931: love command
• 1932: A song, a kiss, a girl
• 1932: A man with a heart
• 1933: What women dream
• 1936: The Marriage of Corbal (assistant director)
• 1936: The Bajazzo (Pagliacci) (production manager)
• 1938: Storm over Asia (Tempête sur l'Asie) (production)
• 1939: Paradise lost (Paradis perdu) (production)
• 1943: Submarine Base

as an actor

• 1921: Yellow Star
• 1921: The Mill of Dread
• 1942: Reunion in France
• 1943: Assignment in Brittany
• 1943: Executioners die too
• 1943: Curse of the Temple Hotters (White Savage)
• 1943: Crash Dive
• 1943: Sahara
• 1943: Submarine Base
• 1943: Hostages
• 1943: ticket to Marseille
• 1943: The North Star
• 1943: The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler
• 1944: On my word of honor
• 1944: Dr. Wassell's escape from Java
• 1944: the seventh cross
• 1944: U-Boat Prisoner
• 1944: The Conspirators
• 1945: Son of Lassie
• 1945: Tarzan and the Amazons
• 1946: In the secret service
• 1946: On a knife edge
• 1946: 13 rue Madeleine
• 1947: Desire Me
• 1948: Women in the Night
• 1950: What a unlucky one
• 1952: What Price Glory
• 1953: The desert rats

Web links

• Fritz Brunn in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Fritz Brunn at filmportal.de - there a completely wrong date of birth

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. ACABUS Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 566.