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Edgar G. Ulmer

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American film director, set designer (1904-1972)

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Edgar Georg Ulmer 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.

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Detour1945 · ★ 7.2
The Black Cat1934 · ★ 6.7
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas1931 · ★ 7.1
People on Sunday1930 · ★ 7.2
The Man from Planet X1951 · ★ 5.9
Hannibal1959 · ★ 5.6
The Strange Woman1946
The Amazing Transparent Man1960 · ★ 4.0
Bluebeard1944 · ★ 5.4
Beyond the Time Barrier1960
Ruthless1948
Murder Is My Beat1955
Daughter of Dr. Jekyll1957
Minstrel Man1944
Strange Illusion1945
The Naked Dawn1955
Hitler's Madman1943
So Young, So Bad1950
American Matchmaker1940
Damaged Lives1933
Club Havana1945
Isle of Forgotten Sins1943
The Naked Venus1959
Moon Over Harlem1939
Girls in Chains1943
We Live Again1934
Tomorrow We Live1942
Babes in Bagdad1952
Carnegie Hall1947
Journey Beneath the Desert1961
The Pirates of Capri1949
Her Sister's Secret1946
St. Benny the Dip1951
Swiss Family Robinson: Lost in the Jungle1958
The Wife of Monte Cristo1946
The Cavern1964
Corregidor1943
The Perjured Farmer1956
The Light Ahead1939
Prisoner of Japan1942

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Edgar Georg Ulmer 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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United States
Category
Directors
Type
Movie Director
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1904 to 1972 · aged 68
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