Ladislaus Vidor

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Ladislaus Vidor , actually László Vidor , in the USA Leslie Vidor (born April 13, 1914 in Pressburg , Austria-Hungary , † 1965 in Mexico ) was a Hungarian-American film editor who lived in the USA since 1938.

Life

Laszlo Vidor, who comes from today's Bratislava, underwent all-round training at Sascha-Film in Vienna at the beginning of the 1930s and began working as an editor at the age of 20 under the German first name “Ladislaus”. Vidor's early works consisted exclusively of films by emigrants, in which Jews who had fled Germany were involved. His brother Zoltan Vidor was often behind the camera there. His last German-language work was the Hungarian production “The kidnapped bride” (also known as Roxi and her wonder team ) , which was made in Vienna and at Lake Balaton .

Since he was also a Jew, Vidor had to flee his adopted home Vienna at the end of March 1938 as a result of the annexation of Austria . At the end of the same month, he and his brother reached the USA via England, where Vidor, who from then on called himself "Leslie", found it difficult to make contact with the local film industry. His first film work in his new home was the editing of the Yiddish-language film “ Mirele Efros ” in 1939 . On July 24, 1953, Ladislaus "Leslie" Vidor was naturalized in the USA. In the late 1950s, he received regular assignments as an editor for B-motion pictures and television series such as Smoking Colts . Leslie Vidor spent his twilight years in Mexico, where he also died.

Filmography

literature

  • 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. ACABUS Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 612.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Land of Death according to ancestry.com . The statement that is occasionally read that he died in Moscow is incorrect

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personal data
SURNAME Vidor, Ladislaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vidor, László (real name); Vidor, Leslie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian-American film editor
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Pressburg , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH 1965
Place of death Mexico