Hanns Schwarz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Austrian film director
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Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria
About Hanns Schwarz
- Hanns Schwarz was an Austrian film director.
- He was born in Vienna on 11 February 1888.
- He directed twenty four films between 1924 and 1937 in both English and German.
- During the late silent and early sound eras, he was a leading director at the large German studio UFA.
- In the early 1930s he worked on several multi-language version films for UFA, producing the same films in distinct German and foreign-language versions.
- Schwarz was Jewish and was therefore forced to leave Germany in 1933 when the Nazis took over, going into exile in Britain.
- His last film was the 1937 British thriller Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel.
- He died in California on 27 October 1945.
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