Edgar G. Ulmer

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Edgar Georg Ulmer (September 17, 1904 – September 30, 1972) was an Austrian-American film director. He is best remembered for the movies The Black Cat (1934) and Detour (1945). These stylish and eccentric works have achieved cult status, whereas Ulmer's other films remain relatively unknown. The first feature he directed in North America, Damaged Lives (1933), was a low-budget exploitation film exposing the horrors of venereal disease. His next film, The Black Cat (1934), starring Béla Lugosi and Boris Karloff, was made for a major studio, Universal Pictures. Demonstrating the striking visual style that would be Ulmer's hallmark, the film was Universal's biggest hit of the season. Ulmer, however, had begun an affair with Shirley Beatrice Kassler, who had been married since 1933 to independent producer Max Alexander, nephew of Universal studio head Carl Laemmle. Kassler's divorce in 1936 and her marriage to Ulmer later the same year led to his being exiled from the major Hollywood studios. Ulmer was relegated to making B movies at Poverty Row production houses. His wife, now Shirley Ulmer, acted as script supervisor on nearly all of these …

Directed

1. Detour (1945) — Director
2. The Black Cat (1934) — Director
3. People on Sunday (1930) — Director
4. The Man from Planet X (1951) — Director
5. The Amazing Transparent Man (1960) — Director
6. Hannibal (1959) — Director
7. Bluebeard (1944) — Director
8. Beyond the Time Barrier (1960) — Director
9. The Strange Woman (1946) — Director
10. Ruthless (1948) — Director
11. Strange Illusion (1945) — Director
12. Daughter of Dr. Jekyll (1957) — Director
13. Murder Is My Beat (1955) — Director
14. The Naked Dawn (1955) — Director
15. So Young, So Bad (1950) — Director
16. Damaged Lives (1933) — Director
17. The Naked Venus (1959) — Director
18. Moon Over Harlem (1939) — Director
19. Isle of Forgotten Sins (1943) — Director
20. Tomorrow We Live (1942) — Director
21. Club Havana (1945) — Director
22. Girls in Chains (1943) — Director
23. Carnegie Hall (1947) — Director
24. Babes in Bagdad (1952) — Director
25. The Pirates of Capri (1949) — Director
26. St. Benny the Dip (1951) — Director
27. Swiss Family Robinson: Lost in the Jungle (1958) — Director
28. Minstrel Man (1944) — Director
29. Journey Beneath the Desert (1961) — Director
30. Her Sister's Secret (1946) — Director
31. American Matchmaker (1940) — Director
32. The Wife of Monte Cristo (1946) — Director
33. The Cavern (1964) — Director
34. The Light Ahead (1939) — Director
35. Thunder Over Texas (1934) — Director
36. The Singing Blacksmith (1938) — Director
37. Jive Junction (1943) — Director
38. Green Fields (1937) — Director
39. My Son, The Hero (1943) — Director
40. Cossacks in Exile (1939) — Director