John Brahm

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John Brahm , actually Hans Julius Brahm or Hans Julius Abrahamson ; (Born August 17, 1893 in Hamburg ; † October 12, 1982 in Malibu , California ) was a German director and actor.

Life

Brahm, son of the actor Ludwig Brahm and thus nephew of the director and theater director Otto Brahm , began his acting career in 1911 at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg. He played here for four years and then took part in the First World War.

In 1919 he became a theater director and worked in Hamburg, Prague , Berlin and Vienna . At the Burgtheater he staged the world premiere of the diptych Spuk ( The Black Mask and Witches Ride ) by Gerhart Hauptmann in 1929 . As an assistant director and dialogue director, he made his first contacts with film.

After the handover of power to the National Socialists , he had to emigrate as a persecuted Jew to France with his wife Dolly Haas in 1933 , to England in 1934 and to the USA in 1937, where he worked as a film director in Hollywood. There he made a name for himself with his scary crime novels Scotland Yard Intervenes (1944) and Scotland Yards Strangest Case (1945). In the mid-1950s, he made two films in Germany: Die goldene Pest und Vom Himmel fallen .

Filmography (as director, selection)

  • 1936: Broken Blossoms
  • 1938: Girls' School
  • 1939: Let us live ( Let Us Live )
  • 1943: The Ice Queen ( Wintertime )
  • 1944: Scotland Yard intervenes / The girl killer ( The Lodger )
  • 1944: Guest in the House
  • 1945: Scotland Yards Strangest Case ( Hangover Square )
  • 1946: The Locket
  • 1947: The Brasher Doubloon
  • 1947: Singapore ( Singapore )
  • 1949: The Lady of Atlantis (Siren of Atlantis) - anonymous
  • 1950: The thief of Venice ( Il ladro di Venezia )
  • 1952: The Holy Fatima ( The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima )
  • 1953: The Blue Stone of the Maharajah ( The Diamond Queen )
  • 1954: The Mad Magician ( The Mad Magician )
  • 1954: The golden plague
  • 1955: Fallen From Heaven ( Special Delivery )
  • 1952–58: Schlitz Playhouse of Stars ( Schlitz Playhouse of Stars , 18 episodes)
  • 1957–59: Department M ( M Squad , 8 episodes)
  • 1959–61: Alfred Hitchcock Presents (10 episodes)
  • 1960–62: Thriller ( Thriller , 12 episodes)
  • 1959–62: Merciless City ( Naked City , 15 episodes)
  • 1959-64: Twilight Zone (12 episodes)
  • 1961–65: Dr. Kildare ( Dr. Kildare , 5 episodes)
  • 1962–65: The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (5 episodes, 1962–1965)
  • 1965–67: Solo for ONKEL ( The Man from UNCLE , 8 episodes)
  • 1966-67: The Girl from UNCLE (6 episodes)

literature

  • Volker Reissmann: Brahm, John . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 7 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2020, ISBN 978-3-8353-3579-0 , p. 41-43 .
  • 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. 109 f., ACABUS-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography of John Brahm in the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) (English)
  2. ↑ The Lady of Atlantis in the American Film Institute Directory , accessed March 27, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Brahm, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brahm, Hans Julius (real name); Abrahamson, Hans Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director and actor
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1982
Place of death Malibu , California