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Robert Siodmak: Quick Facts

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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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Son of Dracula
The Spiral Staircase
Ava Gardner poses in an elegant black gown and long gloves, seated on the edge of a table, in a publicity photo for the 1946 film The Killers.
Yvonne De Carlo and Burt Lancaster in Criss Cross
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Billy Wilder poses in a suit and hat, leaning against a streetlamp with a sign reading Sunset Blvd. in a promotional photo for the film Sunset Boulevard.
Billy Wilder
Austrian-born American director and producer
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Anthony Mann
American director
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Edward Dmytryk
American film director
Director Robert Aldrich stands on a sandy set gesturing as he speaks with actress Barrie Chase, who is in costume, during filming of The Flight of the Phoenix.
Robert Aldrich
American director
Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford in Gilda
Charles Vidor
American director
Negulesco, Jean
Jean Negulesco
Romanian-born artist and director
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Anatole Litvak
Ukrainian-born director
lobby card for The Comedy of Terrors
Jacques Tourneur
French-American director
John Ford, left, and Henry Hathaway, right, both wearing hats and casual jackets, stand together outdoors on the set of How the West Was Won.
Henry Hathaway
American director
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Phil Karlson
American director
Jules Dassin
Jules Dassin
American film director
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Stuart Heisler
American director and editor
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Joseph H. Lewis
American director
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Henry Levin
American director
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Robert Wiene
German film director
Ernst Lubitsch
Ernst Lubitsch
German-born American director
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William Dieterle
German-born film director
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Douglas Sirk
German-American director
The Bishop's Wife
Henry Koster
American director
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Harun Farocki
German filmmaker, video artist, and writer