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FILM DIRECTOR

Edgar G. Ulmer

1904 - 1972

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Edgar Georg Ulmer (; September 17, 1904 – September 30, 1972) was a Jewish-Moravian, Austrian-American film director who mainly worked on 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 studio. His stylish and eccentric works came to be appreciated by auteur theory-espousing film critics in the years following his retirement. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edgar G. Ulmer has received more than 196,015 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Edgar G. Ulmer is the 683rd most popular film director (up from 727th in 2019), the 411th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 413th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Czech Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Edgar G. Ulmer ranks 683 out of 1,581. Before him are Vladimir Naumov, W. S. Van Dyke, David Zucker, Olle Hellbom, Richard Oswald, and Michel Hazanavicius. After him are Henry Selick, Boris Barnet, Wolfgang Becker, Aleksandr Ptushko, Sergio Sollima, and Isabel Coixet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Edgar G. Ulmer ranks 170. Before him are Bill Brandt, Vlado Perlemuter, Attilio Ferraris, Nancy Mitford, Xenophon Zolotas, and Goffredo Petrassi. After him are Berta Karlik, Lauri Virtanen, Armando Castellazzi, Richard Addinsell, Hertta Kuusinen, and Abdullah Goran. Among people deceased in 1972, Edgar G. Ulmer ranks 124. Before him are Edward Calvin Kendall, Lee Beom-seok, Jóhannes Sveinsson Kjarval, August Zaleski, Erik Eriksen, and Rudolf Belling. After him are Raúl Leoni, Marianne Moore, Roger Courtois, Jinichi Kusaka, Deniz Gezmiş, and Arthur Russell.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Edgar G. Ulmer ranks 411 out of 973. Before him are Tom Stoppard (1937), Ernst Weiss (1882), Ivan Passer (1933), Jan Svatopluk Presl (1791), Karel Kryl (1944), and Jiří Wolker (1900). After him are Zdeněk Nehoda (1952), Jiří Bělohlávek (1946), Rudolf Charousek (1873), Vlastimil Hort (1944), Georg Joseph Kamel (1661), and Christian Mayer (1719).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Czechia

Among film directors born in Czechia, Edgar G. Ulmer ranks 13. Before him are Jiří Trnka (1912), Karel Reisz (1926), Václav Vorlíček (1930), František Čáp (1913), Otakar Vávra (1911), and Ivan Passer (1933). After him are Jan Němec (1936), Karel Lamač (1897), Harun Farocki (1944), František Vláčil (1924), Elmar Klos (1910), and Vojtěch Jasný (1925).

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Filmography

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