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Thea von Harbou

1888 - 1954

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Thea Gabriele von Harbou (27 December 1888 – 1 July 1954) was a German screenwriter, novelist, film director, and actress. She is remembered as the screenwriter of the science fiction film classic Metropolis (1927) and for the 1925 novel on which it was based. Von Harbou collaborated as a screenwriter with film director Fritz Lang, her husband, during the period of transition from silent to sound films. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Thea von Harbou is the 243rd most popular film director (down from 211th in 2019), the 1,418th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,232nd in 2019) and the 13th most popular German Film Director.

Thea von Harbou was a German author and film director who is most famous for her work in the film Metropolis.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Thea von Harbou ranks 243 out of 2,041. Before her are John Schlesinger, Otto Preminger, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Ruggero Deodato, Franklin J. Schaffner, and Nicholas Ray. After her are Joe D'Amato, Bertrand Tavernier, James Foley, Patrice Chéreau, Chris Marker, and Paolo Sorrentino.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Thea von Harbou ranks 55. Before her are Nuri al-Said, Irving Berlin, Fritz Klein, Georgios Papandreou, John Foster Dulles, and Heinrich Neuhaus. After her are Chandrashekhar Agashe, W. O. Bentley, Henry A. Wallace, Hans Knappertsbusch, Louis Durey, and Tôn Đức Thắng. Among people deceased in 1954, Thea von Harbou ranks 34. Before her are Prince Ernst of Hohenberg, Sadriddin Ayni, Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Auguste Perret, Ivan Ilyin, and Hannes Meyer. After her are Franco Alfano, Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Archduke Eugen of Austria, Theodore Lyman IV, Fritz London, and Princess Margaret of Prussia.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Thea von Harbou ranks 1,418 out of 7,253. Before her are Hans Werner Henze (1926), Alfred Krupp (1812), Axel Honneth (1949), Anne Christine of Sulzbach, Princess of Piedmont (1704), Philipp Ludwig, Count Palatine of Neuburg (1547), and Wilhelm Groener (1867). After her are John B. Goodenough (1922), Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (1849), Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg (1797), Anna of Saxony (1544), Jens Lehmann (1969), and Anne Catherine of Brandenburg (1575).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Germany

Among film directors born in Germany, Thea von Harbou ranks 13. Before her are Ernst Lubitsch (1892), Wolfgang Petersen (1941), Volker Schlöndorff (1939), Max Ophüls (1902), Roland Emmerich (1955), and Margarethe von Trotta (1942). After her are Mike Nichols (1931), Douglas Sirk (1897), Robert Siodmak (1900), Lotte Reiniger (1899), Veit Harlan (1899), and Gustaf Gründgens (1899).

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