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Otto Lang (21 January 1908 – 30 January 2006) was a skier and pioneer ski instructor from Bosnia and Herzegovina, who lived and worked in the United States.
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Lang was born in Vienna, as the second son of Anton Lang (1860–1940), an architect and construction company manager, and his wife Pauline "Paula" Lang (née Schlesinger; 1864–1920). His mother was born Jewish and converted to Catholicism. His father was described as a “lapsed Catholic.” He was baptized on December 28, 1890, at the Schottenkirche in ...
Expressionist films: the Weimar years
Lang's writing stint was brief, as he soon started to work as a director at the German film studio UFA, and later Nero-Film, just as the Expressionist movement was building. In this first phase of his career, Lang alternated between films such as Der Müde Tod ("The Weary Death") and popular thrillers such as Die Spinnen ("The Spiders"), combining popular genres with Expressionist techniques to create an unprecedented synthesis of popular entertainment with art cinema. In 1920, Lang met his fu...
Emigration
According to Lang, propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels called Lang to his offices to inform him – apologetically – that The Testament of Dr. Mabuse was being banned but, nevertheless, he was so impressed by Lang's abilities as a filmmaker (especially Metropolis), that he offered Lang the position of head of German film studio UFA. Lang said it was during that meeting he had decided to leave for Paris – but that the banks had closed by the time the meeting was over. Lang claimed that, after se...
Hollywood career
Lang made twenty-two features in his 20-year American career, working in a variety of genres at every major studio in Hollywood, and occasionally producing his films as an independent. He became a naturalized citizenof the United States in 1939. Signing first with MGM Studios, Lang's crime drama Fury (1936) saw Spencer Tracy cast as a man who is wrongly accused of a crime and nearly killed when a lynch mob sets fire to the jail where he is awaiting trial. However, in Fury, he was not allowed...
On February 8, 1960, Lang received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the motion picture industry, located at 1600 Vine Street. Lang died from a stroke on August 2, 1976, and was interred in the Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills Cemetery in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles. While his career had ended without fanfare, Lang's A...
Silver Hand in 1931, for his film M, by the German Motion Picture Arts AssociationCommander Cross, Order of Merit in 1957 and 1966Golden Ribbon of Motion Picture Arts in 1963 by the Federal Republic of GermanyOrder of Arts and Letters from France in 1965Michaux, Agnès[fr]. "Je les chasserai jusqu'au bout du monde jusqu'à ce qu'ils en crèvent," Paris: Éditions n°1, 1997; ISBN 2-86391-933-4.Friedrich, Otto. City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s; New York: Harper & Row, 1986; ISBN 0-06-015626-0. (See e.g. pp. 45–46 for anecdotes revealing Lang's arrogance.)McGilligan, Patrick. Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997; ISBN 0-312-13247-6.Schnauber, Cornelius. Fritz Lang in Hollywood; Wien: Europaverlag, 1986; ISBN 3-203-50953-9(in German).Works by or about Fritz Lang at Internet ArchiveFritz Lang at IMDbOtto Lang was born in 1908 in Bosnia. He was a skier and a pioneer ski instructor. He formed ski schools in the United States and later, became a film producer and director. Lang produced Call Northside 777 (1948), 5 Fingers (1952), Search for Paradise (1956), Tora! Tora!
Among Lang’s film credits as producer are “Call Northside 777,” a 1948 crime drama starring James Stewart; and “5 Fingers,” an Oscar-nominated 1952 espionage drama starring James Mason.
Otto Lang. Producer: 5 Fingers. Otto Lang was born on 21 January 1908 in Tesanta, Austria-Hungary [now Tesanj, Bosnia and Herzegovina]. He was a director and producer, known for 5 Fingers (1952), Call Northside 777 (1948) and Tora!
director, producer. 98 years biography, photo, best movies and TV shows, awards, news, birthday and age, Date of Death. «Lancer» (1968 – 1970), «The Felony Squad» (1966 – 1969), «Iron Horse» (1966 – 1968), «Daktari» (1966 – 1969), «The Man from U.N.C.L.E.» (1964 – 1968)...
