Karl Anton
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Anton, c. 1933
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Born | Prague, Royal Bohemia, Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Empire |
25 October 1898
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. West Berlin, West Germany |
Other names | Karel Anton, Charles Anton |
Occupation | Film director Screenwriter Film producer |
Years active | 1922–1963 |
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Karl Anton or Karel Anton (25 October 1898 – 12 April 1979) was a Bohemian-born German film director, screenwriter and film producer.[1]
Biography
He was born in Prague on 25 October 1898. His father Wilhelm Anton (1861–1918) was a physician.[2] Anton studied medicine, but left the school after his father's death.[2] He started as a stage actor and director in Vienna, Linz and Prague. During the World War I Anton made amateur documentaries with his friends Karel Lamač and Otto Heller.[3] He directed his first movie, a lyrical drama Gypsies, in 1921. Anton is considered an early proponent of Czech lyrical cinema tradition.[3] He founded his own production companies Antonfilm (1923–30) and Sonorfilm (1930–32).[2]
After the international success of Tonka of the Gallows he worked in Paris for Paramount Pictures from 1932 to 1935. After leaving Paramount he moved to Germany in 1935.[2] He died in Berlin, Germany in 1979. Czech actor Raoul Schránil was his cousin.[2]
Selected filmography
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- Gypsies (1922)
- The Kidnapping of Fux the Banker (1923)
- The May Fairy (1926)
- Tonka of the Gallows (1930)
- A Girl from the Reeperbahn (1930)
- The Affair of Colonel Redl (1931)
- The Case of Colonel Redl (1931)
- Monsieur Albert (1932)
- Make-Up (1932)
- The Champion Cook (1932)
- The Naked Truth (1932)
- Number 33 (1933)
- Nothing But Lies (1933)
- The Porter from Maxim's (1933)
- Monsieur Sans-Gêne (1935)
- Happy Arenas (1935)
- White Slaves (1936)
- Martha (1936)
- We Danced Around the World (1939)
- The Star of Rio (1940)
- The Thing About Styx (1942)
- The Big Number (1943)
- Peter Voss, Thief of Millions (1946)
- Barry (1949)
- The Appeal to Conscience (1949)
- The Exchange (1952)
- The Cousin from Nowhere (1953)
- The Rose of Stamboul (1953)
- We'll Talk About Love Later (1953)
- Clivia (1954)
- Bonjour Kathrin (1956)
- The Daring Swimmer (1957)
- Victor and Victoria (1957)
- The Avenger (1960)
References
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- 1898 births
- 1979 deaths
- 20th-century German screenwriters
- German male screenwriters
- German film directors
- Czechoslovak film directors
- Czechoslovak male film actors
- German male writers
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- German Bohemian people
- Silent film directors
- Film directors from Prague
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