FILM DIRECTOR

Ernst Lubitsch

1892 - 1947

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Ernst Lubitsch (; German: [ˈluːbɪtʃ]; January 29, 1892 – November 30, 1947) was a German and American film director, producer, writer, and actor. His urbane comedies of manners gave him the reputation of being Hollywood's most elegant and sophisticated director; as his prestige grew, his films were promoted as having "the Lubitsch touch". Among his best known works are Trouble in Paradise (1932), Design for Living (1933), Ninotchka (1939), The Shop Around the Corner (1940), To Be or Not to Be (1942) and Heaven Can Wait (1943). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director three times for The Patriot (1928), The Love Parade (1929), and Heaven Can Wait (1943); his pictures The Smiling Lieutenant and One Hour with You were also nominated for Outstanding Production in 1932. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ernst Lubitsch is the 85th most popular film director (down from 73rd in 2019), the 598th most popular biography from Germany (down from 459th in 2019) and the 7th most popular German Film Director.

Lubitsch is most famous for his comedies, such as "The Shop Around the Corner" and "Ninotchka."

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Ernst Lubitsch ranks 85 out of 2,041. Before him are Dziga Vertov, Alain Resnais, Franco Zeffirelli, Alan Parker, Robert Bresson, and Peter Brook. After him are Fred Zinnemann, Howard Hawks, James Ivory, Terry Gilliam, Manoel de Oliveira, and Carl Theodor Dreyer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Ernst Lubitsch ranks 37. Before him are Darius Milhaud, Corneille Heymans, Arthur Friedenreich, J. Paul Getty, Marina Tsvetaeva, and Shirō Ishii. After him are Robert Ritter von Greim, Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia, Bruno Schulz, Martin Niemöller, Erhard Milch, and Bolesław Bierut. Among people deceased in 1947, Ernst Lubitsch ranks 25. Before him are Halford Mackinder, Anton Denikin, Ettore Bugatti, Aung San, Han van Meegeren, and Karl Mannheim. After him are Nicholas Roerich, Frederick Gowland Hopkins, G. H. Hardy, Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, Stanley Baldwin, and Victor Lustig.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ernst Lubitsch ranks 598 out of 7,253. Before him are Karl Theodor, Duke in Bavaria (1839), Matthias Jakob Schleiden (1804), Lion Feuchtwanger (1884), Bert Hellinger (1925), Friedrich Mohs (1773), and Sophia of Nassau (1836). After him are Hans Spemann (1869), Theodor W. Hänsch (1941), Ludwig Tieck (1773), Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1628), Hermann Kolbe (1818), and Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1743).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Germany

Among film directors born in Germany, Ernst Lubitsch ranks 7. Before him are Leni Riefenstahl (1902), Wim Wenders (1945), Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945), Michael Haneke (1942), Werner Herzog (1942), and F. W. Murnau (1888). After him are Wolfgang Petersen (1941), Volker Schlöndorff (1939), Max Ophüls (1902), Roland Emmerich (1955), Margarethe von Trotta (1942), and Thea von Harbou (1888).

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