Wilhelm Thiele

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Wilhelm Thiele
Born(1890-05-10)May 10, 1890
Vienna, Austria
DiedSeptember 7, 1975(1975-09-07) (aged 85)
Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, U.S.

Wilhelm Thiele, also William Thiele (1890–1975) was an Austrian screenwriter and film director.[1] He directed over 40 films between 1921 and 1960.

Life and career

Thiele started his show career as a stage actor. He got his start in Austrian and German film during the 1920s, most often as a director of film comedies. His biggest success was the highly influential musical film The Three from the Filling Station (1930), the highest-grossing film in Germany that year. Thiele, who was of Jewish descent,[2] left Germany during the Nazi Era. His first film in Hollywood, Lottery Lover in 1935, was without success and Thiele never achieved the same level of fame in Hollywood as he had in Germany. He mostly made B-Pictures, but is credited with giving actress Dorothy Lamour her big start in movies with The Jungle Princess (1936). In the 1950s, he worked as a director in American television. His last two films, The Last Pedestrian and Sabine und die hundert Männer, were both made in Germany and released in 1960.

Wilhelm Thiele was married and had three children. His younger brother was the director Eugen Thiele.–

Partial filmography

References

  1. ^ BFI
  2. ^ Siegbert Salomon Prawer, Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933, Berghahn Books (2007), p. 211


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