Lothar Mendes

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lothar Mendes (19 May 1894 – 25 February 1974) was a German-born screenwriter and film director. who began his career as an actor in Vienna and Berlin in Max Reinhardt's famous troupe. He went to America in the early 1920s and there he remained until 1933, directing more than a dozen features, mostly frothy comedies, while under contract to Paramount. His films included the last silent film made in America, The Four Feathers (1929) and the murder mystery Payment Deferred (1933) starring British expatriate Charles Laughton. After Hitler ascended to power, Mendes travelled to Britain in 1934 to work at Gaumont-British Pictures, directing films with Sir Michael Balcon producing. Under that banner, he directed Jew Süss (1934) starring one of Germany's most famous emigre actors, Conrad Veidt. Mendes' Jew Suss is not to be confused with the later Nazi film of the same title (1940) which is a Reich-made, virulently anti-Semitic film that deliberately contorted the exiled German-Jewish writer, Lion Feuchtwanger's original novel of the same name, on which Mendes' film was based. Mendes' 1934 film version of Feuchtwanger's novel received strong notices…

Directed

1. If I Had a Million (1932) — Director
2. The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936) — Director
3. Payment Deferred (1932) — Director
4. Ladies' Man (1931) — Director
5. The Walls Came Tumbling Down (1946) — Director
6. Paramount on Parade (1930) — Director
7. The Four Feathers (1929) — Director
8. Flight for Freedom (1943) — Director
9. Dangerous Curves (1929) — Director
10. Jew Süss (1934) — Director
11. Strangers in Love (1932) — Director
12. The Marriage Playground (1929) — Director
13. Interference (1929) — Director
14. Luxury Liner (1933) — Director
15. Tampico (1944) — Director
16. International Squadron (1941) — Director
17. Moonlight Sonata (1937) — Director
18. The Monk from Santarem (1924) — Director
19. Illusion (1929) — Director
20. S.O.S. Die Insel der Tränen (1923) — Director
21. Love Is Blind (1926) — Director
22. Adventure Mad (1926) — Director
23. The Prince of Tempters (1926) — Director
24. A Night of Mystery (1928) — Director
25. The Street of Sin (1928) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Ladies' Man (1931) — Lobby extra
2. Typhoon (1918)