Konstantin Kalser
Konstantin Kalser (born September 4, 1920 in Munich , † July 30, 1994 in Southampton , New York ) was a German-American photographer , film producer and film director .
Live and act
The son of the actor Erwin Kalser and the writer Irma von Cube first came into contact with the film business in 1931 when his mother gave him the small role of a cabin boy in the Lilian Harvey comedy Never Again Love , for which she wrote the screenplay, directed by Anatole Litvak had procured. Since 1933 Konstantin Kalser grew up in Switzerland , where his Jewish parents had fled as a result of the seizure of power in Germany. Shortly after his mother moved to the USA (beginning of August 1936), Konstantin followed her, while her father held theater engagements in Zurich until 1939. Erwin Kalser did not emigrate to America until 1939.
Now based in Los Angeles , the new US citizen Konstantin Kalser was drafted into the military on February 18, 1943. Back in civilian life, Kalser worked as a photographer for Life magazine. In 1948 he founded his own company, Marathon International Productions, with which he produced some of the first weekly newsreels for US television in the role of director and producer. Also in 1948, Kalser first made television recordings of the Olympic (winter) games , which took place in St. Moritz that year . They were made for the Dumont Television Network. Kalser's later short film productions were awarded by Paramount, Universal, Warner Brothers and United Artists.
In terms of film history, Kalser's almost ten-minute short documentary Crashing the Water Barrier, recorded on Lake Mead in 1955 , about the (successful) attempt to set a world speed record on the water . Crashing the Water Barrier , both produced and directed by Kalser, won an Oscar in 1957 for Best Short Film (One Film Role) .
Other Kalser productions were This Way Up, Five Miles West, Minute Man, Give and Take, Wolfsburg, A Time Like This, Right Hand of Plenty, Young is the Land, The New Leisure and Alaska Highway .
Konstantin Kalser was married several times and had a son and a daughter.
literature
- International Motion Picture Almanac 1965, Quigley Publishing Company, New York 1964, p. 147
Web links
- Konstantin Kalser in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Konstantin Kaiser obituary in the New York Times
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kalser, Konstantin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American photographer, film producer and film director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th September 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 30, 1994 |
| Place of death | Southampton , New York |