Fritz Lang

Austrian filmmaker (1890–1976)

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Lived 1890–1976, aged 86Germany

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#35
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Era
1890–1976
Aged 86

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Updated 2026-05-29

Austrian-American director who shaped early cinema through German Expressionism and sci-fi classics like Metropolis. Lang's visual darkness and technical innovation rippled through filmmaking for decades.

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Friedrich Christian Anton Lang, better known as Fritz Lang, was an Austrian film director, screenwriter, and producer, who worked in Germany and later the United States. One of the best-known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute. He has been cited as one of the most influential filmmakers of all time.

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