E. A. Dupont

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Ewald André Dupont
Second from left in 1926 group greeting Carl Laemmle in Los Angeles
Born25 December 1891
Zeitz, Province of Saxony
German Empire
Died12 December 1956 (1956-12-13) (aged 64)
Hollywood, California
United States
Other namesE. A. Dupont
Occupation(s)Film director
Screenwriter
Years active1916–1956

Ewald André Dupont (25 December 1891 – 12 December 1956) was a German film director, one of the pioneers of the German film industry. He was often credited as E. A. Dupont.

Early life and career

Born in

University of Berlin, DuPont began work in 1911 as a reporter, columnist, and, eventually, editor of the Berliner Allgemeinen Zeitung.[1]

A newspaper columnist in 1916, Dupont became a screenwriter and began directing his own crime-story scripts in 1918. After several successes in his native Germany in

Varieté even did well in the United States, screening for 12 weeks at New York's Rialto Theatre.[3]

United States

Dupont's success was noticed by

Universal, who offered Dupont a lucrative contract. His first project was Love Me and the World Is Mine
in the early summer of 1926, which ran well over budget ($350,000) and was not a success.

Britain

Dupont then headed to Britain and made the film

Titanic disaster and is seen as one of the most innovative uses of sound film
technology available at the time. Dupont made several more films in Britain and a few in Germany and France.

Later career

After a brief return to Germany, the Jewish director emigrated to the United States in 1933, where he was assigned to several

B movies and low budget "programmer" films. Unhappy with the lack of opportunities afforded him in Hollywood, Dupont became a talent agent in 1940.[4]

Dupont returned to filmmaking when he wrote and directed The Scarf (1951). In 1952 and 1953, he wrote 23 episodes for the TV series Big Town (1950–56) and directed two of those episodes, "Tape Recorder" (19 June 1952) and "The Story of Jerry Baxter" (1 January 1953). Dupont directed several more low-budget films, such as The Neanderthal Man (1953).

Selected filmography

Director

Screenwriter

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-8386-4258-0
    .
  2. ^ Kristin Thompson. Youtube commentary for Varieté. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4Tov1vgoVI
  3. ^ Jan-Christopher Horak. "Sauerkraut and Sausages with a Little Goulash: Germans in Hollywood, 1927." Film History, Vol. 17, No. 2/3, the Year 1927 (2005), pp. 241–260.
  4. ^ Hal Erickson, Rovi
  • St. Pierre, Paul Matthew (May 1, 2010). E. A. Dupont and His Contribution to British Film. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
    ISBN 978-1-61147-433-6
    .

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