Born January 26, 1904· Budapest, Austria-Hungary (now Budapest, Hungary)
† Died January 7, 1997
37Filmography★ 6.5Average rating
Born in Budapest, he left school in 1922 and was hired by Alfréd Deésy as an assistant editor at Vienna's Sascha-Film. After meeting Ernst Lubitsch he returned to Europe in 1927, becoming editor for Berlin's Tobis and directing his first feature, Two O'Clock in Morning, in Britain (1929). A 1934 Tibetan expedition produced documentary Demon of the Himalayas, which he could not credit because of hi…