John Reinhardt

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Harry John Reinhardt (born February 24, 1901 in Vienna , † August 5, 1953 in Berlin ) was an Austrian-born US film director , actor and screenwriter .

Live and act

Harry John Reinhardt had worked as a bank clerk right after the First World War before he decided to emigrate to America. On November 8, 1922, he crossed from Hamburg with the 'Saxonia' and landed in New York 14 days later . On May 27, 1923, he settled in California , where he was naturalized in early December 1928.

That year he also started working in film. At first he worked as a screenwriter, a year later (1929) Reinhardt also appeared in front of the camera. In Wilhelm Dieterle's first US director Der Tanz geht weiter , the German-language version of an American original, Reinhardt took on a not insignificant supporting role.

He began his career as a director in 1933 with the production of Spanish-language Hollywood productions for the production company Fox . These films were designed primarily for the South American (and especially: the Argentine) market. The films Tango Bar and El día que me quieras with the famous tango singer Carlos Gardel , made in 1935, can be viewed as interesting contemporary documents . In 1941 he accepted an invitation to Argentina to direct two films there.

After his return from Buenos Aires on December 15, 1941, Reinhardt did not find his way back into the US film scene until 1946. He was allowed to direct cheaply made B-films throughout; mostly detective stories and thrillers, dramas and melodramas. His last American work, based on a script by Reinhardt and his colleague, the German émigré Peter Berneis , was the psychologizing, realistic social drama Fernruf auf Chicago . This film can be rated as Reinhardt's best production.

Reinhardt and Berneis then decided to travel to the Federal Republic of Germany , where at the beginning of 1953 they worked together again in the lively marriage game Man calls it love with Curd Jürgens and Winnie Markus in the lead roles. Reinhardt then began to shoot the very fancy comedy Postman Müller . Reinhardt suddenly died at around one o'clock in the morning on August 5, 1953, in the middle of filming. The cause of death was found to be an infarction of the heart muscle as a result of a coronary thrombosis . Postman Müller was completed by the main actor Heinz Rühmann . Together with Reinhardt, he was named as a director in the opening credits.

Filmography (director)

  • 1933: Yo, tú y ella (also co-script)
  • 1934: Granaderos del amor (co-director, co-screenplay)
  • 1934: Un capitan de cosacos
  • 1934: Dos más uno dos
  • 1935: Tango Bar
  • 1935: El día que me quieras
  • 1935: De la sartén al fuego
  • 1936: El capitan Tormenta (also English verse: Captain Calamity)
  • 1938: Rascals (only co-production)
  • 1940: Tengo fe en tí
  • 1941: Último refugio
  • 1941: Una novia en apuros
  • 1946: The Guilty
  • 1947: High Tide
  • 1947: For You I Die (also co-production)
  • 1948: Open Secret
  • 1948: Sofia (also co-production)
  • 1949: The Assassin (short film, also screenplay and production)
  • 1949/50: Fireside Theater (TV series, co-director and co-production)
  • 1951: Chicago Calling (also co-script)
  • 1953: It's called love (also co-script)
  • 1953: Postman Müller

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Remarks

  1. ↑ According to the Kay Less film archive , based on existing original documents (ship passage, naturalization certificate, passport application, etc.)
  2. ↑ like 1
personal data
SURNAME Reinhardt, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reinhardt, Harry John (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film director
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 5th August 1953
Place of death Berlin