Helmuth Ashley
Helmuth Ashley , also Helmut Ashley or Helmuth Fischer-Ashley (born September 17, 1919 in Vienna ) is an Austrian director , cameraman and screenwriter .
Life
Helmuth Ashley was born as the son of the businessman Joseph Ashley and his wife Emmy. born of Zach. His paternal grandparents are from England. After graduating from secondary school and high school , he trained as a photographer from 1934 to 1938 at the Graphic State, Teaching and Research Institute in Vienna. He then worked as a portrait photographer in two Berlin photo studios.
During the Second World War he trained as an aerial photographer and after the French campaign he set up a cinema in Lessay in Normandy . He then completed a course as a war correspondent . As a cameraman he filmed Stuka attacks in Yugoslavia and Romania and was involved in the documentary Luftwaffe West . In November 1942 Ashley was dismissed from the army because of the political unreliability of his father, but found a job at Berlin-Film as a camera assistant to Oskar Schnirch .
Ashley experienced the end of the war in Vienna. On October 1, 1945 he was commissioned by the occupation authorities with film tasks for the newsreel Welt im Film . He was involved several times in feature films as a camera assistant or second cameraman. For the debris film Duel mit dem Tod , Helmuth Ashley was responsible for the camera for a feature film for the first time.
From 1950 he worked almost exclusively in Germany. His specialty as a cameraman was film drama shot in black and white. At the request of Heinz Rühmann , he received his first commission as a director in 1960 for the film adaptation of the Pater Brown story The Black Sheep .
After the Edgar Wallace film The Riddle of the Red Orchid , Ashley became almost a pure television director. Above all, he staged numerous episodes of the ZDF series Das Kriminalmuseum , Die Fifth Kolonne , Der Alte , Derrick and Forsthaus Falkenau . He also provided the script for several of these films.
Ashley, who was temporarily married to the Austrian actress Doris Kirchner and later was in a relationship with the German actress Emely Reuer , lives in third marriage with his wife Benny geb. Benghauser.
His archive is located in the archive of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.
Filmography
camera
- 1948: The Singing House (with Oskar Schnirch)
- 1948: The Trial (with Oskar Schnirch)
- 1949: Duel with death
- 1950: shot through the window
- 1950: Demonic love
- 1950: Now it strikes 13 (It strikes 13)
- 1951: White shadows
- 1951: captured soul
- 1952: Lost Melody
- 1952: Adventure in Vienna
- 1952: The trail leads to Berlin
- 1953: As long as you are there
- 1953: Stolen Identity
- 1953: Do you have to get a divorce right away?
- 1953: A heart plays wrong
- 1954: The light of love
- 1954: Sauerbruch - That was my life
- 1954: private confession
- 1955: stopover in Paris
- 1955: Hanussen
- 1955: You must not be silent any longer
- 1955: Regine
- 1955: Alibi
- 1956: Nina
- 1956: Kitty and the big world
- 1957: The Star of Africa
- 1957: Bank vault 713
- 1957: the end of love
- 1958: Wet asphalt
- 1959: Dogs, do you want to live forever
- 1959: Doctor without a conscience
- 1959: a day that never ends
- 1960: My school friend
- 1960: a woman for life
Director
- 1960: The black sheep
- 1961: Murderer game (also screenplay)
- 1962: The riddle of the red orchid
- 1963–1968: The Crime Museum (TV series, 14 episodes)
- 1963–1967: The fifth column (TV series, 6 episodes)
- 1964: White cargo for Hong Kong
- 1964: Night train D 106
- 1965: Colonel Wennerström. Spy between East and West (2 parts)
- 1966: The Millionaire (2 parts)
- 1966: The bill - served ice cold
- 1968: Udo and his music
- 1969: Kim Philby was the third man (TV movie)
- 1969–1970: The Munich Soviet Republic (2 parts)
- 1971: The three faces of Tamara Bunke
- 1974–1975: The Commissioner (TV series, 3 episodes)
- 1976–1977: Emergency ambulance 7 (TV series, 13 episodes)
- 1977: Tatort - shots in the closed season ( BR )
- 1978–2005: The Old One (TV series, 55 episodes)
- 1975–1997: Derrick (TV series, 47 episodes)
- 1983: The Defiant Head (TV)
- 1984: Danger - No time to die
- 1989/91: Forsthaus Falkenau (TV series, 14 episodes)
Awards
- 1964: Silver plaque for the Berlin International Television Prize for the D 106 night train
- 1983: appointed professor
- 1989: Medal of Honor of the Federal Capital Vienna
Web links
- Helmut Ashley in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Helmuth Ashley at filmportal.de
- Helmuth Ashley archive in the archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
Individual evidence
- ^ Helmut Ashley archive inventory overview on the website of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin.
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SURNAME | Ashley, Helmuth |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ashley, Helmut; Fischer-Ashley, Helmuth |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian film director and cameraman |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 17, 1919 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna , Austria |