Thea von Harbou

Personal Info

Known For Writer

Gender Female

Birthday 1888-12-19

Deathday 1954-07-01 (65 years old)

Place of Birth Tauperlitz, Germany

Also Known As Thea Gabriele von Harbou

Thea von Harbou

Biography

Thea Gabriele von Harbou was a German actress and author of Prussian aristocratic origin. She was born in Tauperlitz in the Kingdom of Bavaria. She is especially known for the 1927 science fiction film Metropolis directed by her husband Fritz Lang. She would often publish her screenplays as novels. In 1933, Lang fleed Nazi Germany as he was Jewish; whilst she made several Nazi propaganda films. She later married Ayi Tendulkar, a journalist of Indian origin - before dying in 1954.

Known For

Writer

Metropolis

as Original Story

2001
Metropolis

as Novel

2001
Metropolis

as Original Film Writer

1982
M the Damned

as Original Film Writer

1960
1959
1951
M

as Original Story

1948
1945
Via Mala

as Screenplay

1941
Annelie

as Screenplay

1939
1939
1939
1938
1938
1938
1938
Covered Tracks

as Screenplay

1938
Jugend

as Writer

1937
The Broken Jug

as Screenplay

1937
The Sovereign

as Screenplay

1937
Mother Song

as Story

1937
Mother Song

as Screenplay

1937
1936
1935
1935
1934
1934
Prinzessin Turandot

as Screenplay

1933
1932
1931
M

as Screenplay

1929
Woman in the Moon

as Screenplay

1929
1928
Spies

as Novel

1928
Spies

as Screenplay

1927
Metropolis

as Screenplay

1927
Metropolis

as Novel

1924
Michael

as Adaptation

1924
Michael

as Screenplay

1924
1923
1923
1923
1922
1922
Phantom

as Adaptation

1922
Phantom

as Writer

1922
1921
Destiny

as Writer

1921
1921
Four Around the Woman

as Screenplay

1920

Director

1934