Georg Wilhelm Pabst

1885-1967

Biography: life and films

Georg Wilhelm Pabst was an Austrian film director, screenwriter and producer. He was born in Raudnitz, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary on 25th August 1885 and died in Vienna, Austria on 29th May 1967, aged 81.

His best films as a film director include Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney (1927), Abwege (1928), Pandora's Box (1929), Tagebuch einer Verlorenen (1929) and Kameradschaft (1931), and whose best work as a screenwriter include Pandora's Box (1929), Augusto Genina's Prix de beauté (1930) and Irving Cummings's White Hunter (1936).

Georg Wilhelm Pabst directed 36 films and scripted 9 films.

His most frequent genres include: drama (30 films), romance (8), comedy-drama (3), comedy (3), War (3), Thriller (3), history (2), comedy-romance (2), Fantasy (2) and Biography (2).

Our average rating for Georg Wilhelm Pabst over all films is: 3.1

Filmography

Key: d = director; w = writer

Luise Millerin (1922) [w]

Der Schatz (1923) [d,w]

Gräfin Donelli (1924) [d]

Die Freudlose Gasse (1925) [d]

Geheimnisse einer Seele (1926) [d]

Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe (1926) [d]

Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney (1927) [d]

Abwege (1928) [d]

Die weiße Hölle vom Piz Palü (1929) [d]

Pandora's Box (1929) [d,w]

Tagebuch einer Verlorenen (1929) [d]

Prix de beauté (1930) [w]

Skandal um Eva (1930) [d]

Westfront 1918 (1930) [d]

Westfront 1918: Vier von der Infanterie (1930) [d]

Die 3 Groschen-Oper (1931) [d]

Kameradschaft (1931) [d]

L'Opéra de quat'sous (1931) [d]

Die Herrin von Atlantis (1932) [d]

L'Atlantide (1932) [d]

The Mistress of Atlantis (1932) [d]

Cette nuit-là (1933) [d]

Don Quichotte (1933) [d,w]

Don Quixote (1933) [d,w]

Du haut en bas (1933) [d]

A Modern Hero (1934) [d]

White Hunter (1936) [w]

Mademoiselle Docteur (1937) [d]

Le Drame de Shanghaï (1938) [d]

Jeunes filles en détresse (1939) [d]

L'Esclave blanche (1939) [d]

Komödianten (1941) [d,w]

Paracelsus (1943) [d]

Der Prozeß (1948) [d]

Duell mit dem Tod (1949) [w]

Geheimnisvolle Tiefe (1949) [d]

Ruf aus dem Äther (1951) [d]

La Maison du silence (1953) [d,w]

Cose da pazzi (1954) [d]

Das Bekenntnis der Ina Kahr (1954) [d]

Der letzte Akt (1955) [d]

Es geschah am 20. Juli (1955) [d]

Durch die Wälder durch die Auen (1956) [d]

Rosen für Bettina (1956) [d]



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