Edgar G. Ulmer

(1904-1972)

American film director, set designer

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Edgar Georg Ulmer (17 September 1904 – 30 September 1972) was an Austrian film director who worked mainly in Hollywood B movies and other low-budget productions, eventually earning the epithet 'The King of PRC', due to his extremely prolific output for the Poverty Row studios. His stylish and eccentric works came to be appreciated by auteur theory-espousing film critics in the years following his retirement. Ulmer's most famous productions include the horror film The Black Cat (1934) and the film noir Detour (1945).

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Born	Edgar George Ulmer 17 September 1904 Olmütz, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Olomouc, Czech Republic]
Died	30 September 1972 (aged 68) Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
Zodiac	Virgo
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Joan Warner 1913- · American dancer · m. ???? info edit

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Shirley Ulmer 1914-2000 · American screenwriter · m. ???? info edit

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Hedy Lamarr · 1914-2000 · Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping info edit view couple »

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