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Born August 8, 1900 • Dresden • Germany
Died March 10, 1973 (aged 72) • Locarno • Switzerland
Notable Works “The Crimson Pirate” • “Criss Cross” • “Cry of the City” • “Custer of the West” • “Phantom Lady” • “Son of Dracula” • “The File on Thelma Jordan” • “The Great Sinner” • “The Killers” • “The Spiral Staircase” • “The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry” • “The Suspect”

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The quintessential film noir femme fatale
Yvonne De Carlo and Burt Lancaster in Criss Cross
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Billy Wilder
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Edward Dmytryk
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Charles Vidor
American director
Negulesco, Jean
Jean Negulesco
Romanian-born artist and director
Anatole Litvak
Ukrainian-born director
lobby card for The Comedy of Terrors
Jacques Tourneur
French-American director
How the West Was Won
Henry Hathaway
American director
Phil Karlson
American director
Jules Dassin
Jules Dassin
American film director
Stuart Heisler
American director and editor
Joseph H. Lewis
American director
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Henry Levin
American director
Robert Wiene
German film director
Ernst Lubitsch
Ernst Lubitsch
American director
William Dieterle
German-born film director
Douglas Sirk
German-American director
The Bishop's Wife
Henry Koster
American director
Harun Farocki
German filmmaker, video artist, and writer
Helmut Käutner
German director