Otto Klement

Otto Klement (born June 7, 1891 in Mährisch-Ostrau , Austria-Hungary , later Czechoslovakia ; † October 28, 1983 in Beverly Hills , United States ) was a Moravian - Austrian-born acting agent , film producer and author .

Live and act

During the Weimar Republic, Klement worked in Berlin as an agent for theater and film actors. As a result of the seizure of power in 1933, the Jew fled Germany and settled in England . There Klement and his British colleague Robert Garrett produced two films as part of the Garret Klement Production in 1936, including the comedy The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss with Cary Grant . During the so-called London Blitz , Klement left Great Britain and traveled to the United States via Mexico in May 1941 .

In Hollywood he could hardly continue to work actively in film production, only in 1947 he was entrusted with the production management of the filming of Erich Maria Remarque's novel Triumphal Arch , as Klement Remarque represented as a literary agent. Instead, Otto Klement founded the American Copyright and Management Corporation in 1941 and concentrated entirely on agent work. In 1965, together with Jerome Bixby , he developed the story template for the classic science fiction film The Fantastic Journey .

Otto Klement had been a US citizen since July 1947.

Filmography (complete)

• 1936: A Woman Alone (Production)
• 1936: The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss (Production)
• 1948: Arch of Triumph (production manager)
• 1954: Hands (from the TV series Crown Theater with Gloria Swanson ) (original story)
• 1965: The Fantastic Journey (story template)

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. 585.

Web links

• Otto Klement in the Internet Movie Database (English)