Helmuth Ashley

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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

Director

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helmut Ashley archive inventory overview on the website of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin.
personal data
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