F. W. Murnau
German film director (1888–1931)
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GermanyHe turned an unlicensed Dracula knockoff into one of the most haunting images in cinema history, then proved it wasn't a fluke: three more silent masterpieces before Hollywood, a fourth that critics still call one of the best films ever made, then death in a car wreck days before his last picture opened.
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Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau studied philology and art before Max Reinhardt pulled him into his acting school, then spent World War I as an infantry officer and later a Flying Corps observer, surviving multiple crashes. His first film as director appeared in 1919, but 1922's Nosferatu — an unauthorized Dracula adaptation that Stoker's estate nearly destroyed — made him a name in German Expressionist cinema despite commercial failure. The Last Laugh in 1924 and a Faust adaptation in 1926 cemented his reputation before Fox lured him to Hollywood, where Sunrise in 1927 became what many would call one…
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