(1890-1976)
Austrian film director. He initially was a painter in Paris, but returned to Austria at the outbreak of World War I. In 1919 he began directing and produced a number of films. He was offered the directorship of the film industry of the Third Reich, but he feared his Jewish origin would be discovered and fled to France. Later he went to Hollywood. During the war he made a number of anti-Nazi films. He eventually returned to Germany.
Dictionary of Jewish Biography. Dan Cohn-Sherbok.