E.A. Dupont

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1891-12-25

Deathday 1956-12-12 (64 years old)

Place of Birth Zeitz - Germany

Also Known As E.A. Dupont , Ewald André Dupont, E. A. Dupont

E.A. Dupont

Biography

Ewald André Dupont (25 December 1891, Zeitz, Saxony, Germany – 12 December 1956, Hollywood) was a German film director, one of the founders of the German film industry. He was frequently credited as E. A. Dupont. A newspaper columnist in 1916, Dupont became a screenwriter and began directing his own crime-story scripts in 1918. After several successes in his native Germany in silent films, he worked in London and in Hollywood, California. One of his greatest successes was the silent film Varieté (1925). This film, about an ex-trapeze artist, was noted for its innovative camerawork with highly expressive movement through space, accomplished by the prolific expressionist cinematographer Karl Freund. Varieté even did well in the United States, screening for 12 weeks at New York's Rialto Theatre. Dupont's success was noticed by Carl Laemmle at Universal, who offered Dupont a lucrative contract. His first project was Love Me and the World Is Mine in the early summer of 1926, which ran well over budget ($350,000) and was not a success. His film Piccadilly (1929), a late silent, is noted for the central performance of the Chinese-American actress Anna May Wong. Atlantic (also 1929) is seen as one of the most innovative uses of sound film technology available at the time. After his successes in the UK, Dupont returned to Hollywood in 1933, though he directed only a handful of films after 1939. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ewald André Dupont, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Known For

Director

1953
Problem Girls

as Director

1953
1953
The Steel Lady

as Director

1951
The Scarf

as Director

1951
Pictura

as Director

1939
Hell's Kitchen

as Director

1937
Night of Mystery

as Director

1937
Love on Toast

as Director

1937
On Such a Night

as Director

1936
A Son Comes Home

as Director

1936
Forgotten Faces

as Director

1935
1933
Ladies Must Love

as Director

1933
1931
Cape Forlorn

as Director

1931
The Lost Course

as Director

1931
Trapeze

as Director

1931
Somersault

as Director

1930
The Love Storm

as Director

1930
Two Worlds

as Director

1930
Two Worlds

as Director

1930
Atlantic

as Director

1930
The Two Worlds

as Director

1929
Piccadilly

as Director

1929
Atlantic

as Director

1929
Atlantic

as Director

1928
Moulin Rouge

as Director

1925
Variety

as Director

1923
The Ancient Law

as Director

1923
The Green Manuela

as Director

1922
She and the Three

as Director

1921
Die Geierwally

as Director

1920
Der weisse Pfau

as Director

1920
Hearts Are Trumps

as Director

1920
Alcohol

as Director

1920
1919
Die Japanerin

as Director

1918
Mitternacht

as Director

Writer

1956
1955
Magic Fire

as Screenplay

1951
The Scarf

as Screenplay

1931
Cape Forlorn

as Screenplay

1930
Two Worlds

as Story

1929
Atlantic

as Writer

1928
Moulin Rouge

as Writer

1927
1925
Variety

as Screenplay

1921
Die Geierwally

as Screenplay

1920
Der weisse Pfau

as Writer

1920
Patience

as Writer

1920
Alcohol

as Writer

1920
1919
Die Japanerin

as Screenplay

1918
1918
1918
Rennfieber

as Writer

1918
Mitternacht

as Writer

1918
Ferdinand Lassalle

as Screenplay

1917

Producer

1931
Cape Forlorn

as Producer

1930
Two Worlds

as Producer

1929
Piccadilly

as Producer

1929
Atlantic

as Producer

1928
Moulin Rouge

as Producer

1927
Madame Pompadour

as Producer

Actor

1924