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Edgar G. Ulmer (1904–1972)

Director | Writer | Art Department

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While at the poverty row Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC), he became the de facto head of production, overseeing productions by other directors and aiding the president of the company in planning the year's production schedule. See more trivia »

Born:

Edgar George Ulmer
in Olmütz, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Olomouc, Czech Republic]

Died:

(age 68) in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
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2000 Swiss Family Robinson: Lost in the Jungle (TV movie) (unconfirmed)
 
1964 The Cavern
 
1961 Journey Beneath the Desert
 
1960 Beyond the Time Barrier
 
1960 The Amazing Transparent Man
 
1959 Hannibal
 
1959 The Naked Venus (as Ove H. Sehested)
 
1959 The Perjurer
 
1957 Daughter of Dr. Jekyll
 
1955 The Naked Dawn
 
1955 Murder Is My Beat
 
1954 Loves of Three Queens
 
1952 Babes in Bagdad (US version)
 
1951 St. Benny the Dip
 
1951 The Man from Planet X
 
1950 So Young So Bad (uncredited)
 
1949 I pirati di Capri
 
1948 Ruthless
 
1947 Carnegie Hall
 
1946 The Strange Woman (as Edgar Ulmer)
 
1946 Her Sister's Secret
 
1946 The Wife of Monte Cristo
 
1945 Club Havana
 
1945 Detour
 
1945 Strange Illusion
 
1944 Bluebeard
 
1944 Minstrel Man (uncredited)
 
1943 Jive Junction
 
1943 Isle of Forgotten Sins
 
1943 Girls in Chains
 
1943 My Son, the Hero
 
1943 Turbosupercharger: Flight Operation (documentary)
 
1943 Turbosupercharger: Master of the Skies (documentary)
 
1942 Tomorrow We Live
 
1942 Prisoner of Japan ( - uncredited / unconfirmed)
 
1941 Another to Conquer (short)
 
1940 Americaner Shadchen
 
1940 Cloud in the Sky (documentary short)
 
1940 Goodbye, Mr. Germ (short)
 
1939 Moon Over Harlem
 
1939 The Light Ahead
 
1939 Cossacks in Exile
 
1939 Let My People Live (documentary short)
 
1938 The Singing Blacksmith
 
1938 La vida bohemia (uncredited)
 
1937 Green Fields
 
1937 Natalka Poltavka
 
1935 Nine to Nine (as Edward George Ulmer)
 
1934 Thunder Over Texas (as John Warner)
 
1934 The Black Cat
 
1933 Mr. Broadway ( - uncredited / unconfirmed)
 
1933 Damaged Lives
 
1930 People on Sunday
 
Show ShowWriter (20 titles)
2000 Swiss Family Robinson: Lost in the Jungle (TV movie) (adaptation)
 
1959 Hannibal (writer)
 
1946 The Strange Woman (uncredited)
 
1946 The Wife of Monte Cristo (adaptation)
 
1944 Song of Russia (uncredited)
 
1943 Danger! Women at Work (story)
 
1943 Isle of Forgotten Sins (story)
 
1943 Hitler's Madman (uncredited)
 
1943 Girls in Chains (story)
 
1943 I Escaped from the Gestapo (story)
 
1943 My Son, the Hero (writer)
 
1943 Corregidor (original story and screenplay / as Edgar Ulmer)
 
1942 Prisoner of Japan (story)
 
1939 The Light Ahead (writer)
 
1939 Let My People Live (documentary short) (writer)
 
1935 Nine to Nine (story)
 
1934 The Black Cat (story)
 
1933 Damaged Lives (writer)
 
1931 Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (uncredited)
 
1930 People on Sunday
 
Show ShowArt Department (15 titles)
1934 The Black Cat (set designer - uncredited)
 
1934 Little Man, What Now? (set designer)
 
1933 Little Man What Now (set designer)
 
1931 M (set designer - uncredited)
 
1928 4 Devils (assistant art director)
 
1928 Street of Sin (set designer)
 
1928 Spies (set designer - uncredited)
 
1927 Sunrise (assistant art director - uncredited)
 
1927 The King of Kings (assistant art director)
 
1927 Metropolis (set designer - uncredited)
 
1925 The Joyless Street (set designer)
 
1924 Kriemhild's Revenge (set designer - uncredited)
 
1924 Gösta Berlings saga (set designer)
 
1924 Siegfried (set designer - uncredited)
 
1920 The Golem (set designer - uncredited)
 
Show ShowProduction Designer (13 titles)
1961 Journey Beneath the Desert
 
1952 Babes in Bagdad
 
1944 Bluebeard (uncredited)
 
1944 Minstrel Man
 
1943 Hitler's Madman (uncredited)
 
1939 The Light Ahead
 
1933 Queen Christina (uncredited)
 
1931 The Secret Six (uncredited)
 
1930 City Girl
 
1928 4 Devils
 
1924 The Last Laugh
 
1924 Finances of the Grand Duke (uncredited)
 
1922 Sodom und Gomorrha
 
Show ShowProducer (12 titles)
2000 Swiss Family Robinson: Lost in the Jungle (TV movie) (producer)
 
1964 The Cavern (producer)
 
1959 The Perjurer (producer)
 
1956 The Perjured Farmer (producer)
 
1942 Prisoner of Japan (producer - uncredited / unconfirmed)
 
1940 Americaner Shadchen (producer)
 
1940 Goodbye, Mr. Germ (short) (producer - uncredited)
 
1939 Moon Over Harlem (producer)
 
1939 The Light Ahead (producer)
 
1937 Green Fields (producer)
 
1930 People on Sunday (producer)
 
1929 Flucht in die Fremdenlegion (line producer)
 
1944 Minstrel Man (second unit director)
 
1943 Hitler's Madman (second unit director)
 
1934 I Can't Escape (short) (second unit director - uncredited)
 
1931 Aloha (assistant director - uncredited)
 
1926 The Border Sherriff (assistant director - uncredited)
 
1924 The Last Laugh (assistant director)
 
1924 Finances of the Grand Duke (assistant director)
 
Show ShowArt Director (5 titles)
1932 Merry-Go-Round (uncredited)
 
1929 Spiel um den Mann
 
1929 Flucht in die Fremdenlegion
 
1925 Lady Windermere's Fan (uncredited)
 
1923 Merry-Go-Round (uncredited)
 
Show ShowProduction Manager (2 titles)
1931 Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (production manager - uncredited)
 
1929 Flucht in die Fremdenlegion (production manager)
 
Show ShowCinematographer (1 title)
1962 The World's Greatest Sinner (as Ove H. Sehested)
 
Show ShowMusic Department (1 title)
1940 Fantasia (music recording supervisor - uncredited)
 
Show ShowCostume Designer (1 title)
1934 The Black Cat (uncredited)
 
Show ShowEditorial Department (1 title)
1931 Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (supervising editor - uncredited)
 
Show ShowSet Decorator (1 title)
1927 The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (settings - uncredited)
 
Show ShowThanks (1 title)
1985 Détective (dedicatee)
 
Show ShowSelf (1 title)
2004 Edgar G. Ulmer - The Man Off-screen (documentary)
Himself (voice)
 

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Personal Details

Other Works:

(1959) Unsold pilot: Directed a 30-minute pilot for a series to be called "Swiss Family Robinson". See more »

Publicity Listings:

1 Biographical Movie  | 8 Print Biographies  | 14 Articles  | See more »

Alternate Names:

Ove H. Sehested | Edgar George Ulmer | Edgar Georg Ulmer | Edgar Ulmer | Edward George Ulmer | John Warner
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Did You Know?

Personal Quote:

[explaining how the studio ruined Hannibal] My nicest scene, they cut out. I could not find any documentation or any explanation why Hannibal didn't take Rome after he defeated the Roman army at Cannae. Hannibal represented a dying civilization, the Carthaginians, and he was tremendously well-educated... See more »

Trivia:

While at the poverty row Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC), he became the de facto head of production, overseeing productions by other directors and aiding the president of the company in planning the year's production schedule. See more »

Star Sign:

Virgo