FILM DIRECTOR

Edgar G. Ulmer

1904 - 1972

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Edgar Georg Ulmer (; 17 September 1904 – 30 September 1972) was an Austrian film director who worked mainly in Hollywood B movies and other low-budget productions, eventually earning the epithet 'The King of PRC', due to his extremely prolific output for the Poverty Row studios. His stylish and eccentric works came to be appreciated by auteur theory-espousing film critics in the years following his retirement. Ulmer's most famous productions include the horror film The Black Cat (1934) and the film noir Detour (1945). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edgar G. Ulmer is the 826th most popular film director (down from 807th in 2019), the 511th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 494th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Czech Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Edgar G. Ulmer ranks 826 out of 2,041. Before him are Goran Paskaljević, Gérard Pirès, Mohammad Rasoulof, Harun Farocki, Stephen Daldry, and Yevgeni Bauer. After him are Luis Trenker, Arturo Ripstein, Ferzan Özpetek, Edgar Reitz, Mick Jackson, and Pyotr Chardynin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Edgar G. Ulmer ranks 202. Before him are Anton Yugov, François Marty, Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, Esmat Dowlatshahi, Rudolf Burkert, and Clarence Nash. After him are Yulii Khariton, Pinhas Lavon, Ancel Keys, José Ruiz, Dick Powell, and Jānis Daliņš. Among people deceased in 1972, Edgar G. Ulmer ranks 158. Before him are Markos Vamvakaris, Romas Kalanta, Roger Courtois, Roberto Clemente, Jinichi Kusaka, and Oleksandr Korniychuk. After him are Gottfried Fuchs, Reginald Owen, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Leo G. Carroll, Franciska Gaal, and Gavriil Popov.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Edgar G. Ulmer ranks 511 out of 1,200. Before him are Friedrich von Berchtold (1781), Erich Srbek (1908), Aleš Hrdlička (1869), Jiří Hájek (1913), Olga Taussky-Todd (1906), and Harun Farocki (1944). After him are Antonín Švehla (1873), Adolf Šimperský (1909), Miroslav Tyrš (1832), Július Bielik (1962), Bohuslav Balbín (1621), and Jan Santini Aichel (1677).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Czechia

Among film directors born in Czechia, Edgar G. Ulmer ranks 20. Before him are Karel Lamač (1897), Ivan Passer (1933), Elmar Klos (1910), Vojtěch Jasný (1925), František Vláčil (1924), and Harun Farocki (1944). After him are Gustav Machatý (1901), Oldřich Lipský (1924), Karel Kachyňa (1924), Martin Frič (1902), Břetislav Pojar (1923), and Jiří Weiss (1913).

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