Fritz Lang

ActorSoundWriterDirectorProducer Dec 5 (died age 85) Vienna, Austria 1916–2025 (109 year career)

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Biography

Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang (December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976) was an Austrian-German film director, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor. One of the best known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute. Andrew Sarris in his influential book of film criticism The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929–1968 included him in the "pantheon" of the 14 greatest film directors who had worked i…

Known For

Film

Metropolis

Director

Film

M

Director

Film

The Big Heat

Director

Film

Contempt

Fritz Lang

Film

Scarlet Street

Director

Film

The Woman in the Window

Director

Film

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse

Director

Film

Fury

Director

Filmography

Acting (20)

Movies (17)

Sibyl

2025

as (Archive footage)

Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Film

2017

as Self

From Caligari to Hitler

2015

as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

7.4

Voyage to 'Metropolis'

2010

as Self (archive footage)

5.9

Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands

2004

as Self (archive footage)

7.0

Fritz Lang

1990

The Exiles

1989

as Self

Conversation with Fritz Lang

1975

as Self

7.0

For Example Fritz Lang

1968

7.0

The Dinosaur and the Baby

as Self

Paparazzi

as Self

Encounter with Fritz Lang

1964

as Self - Interviewee

Bardot et Godard

as Self

Contempt

as Fritz Lang

The Film in the Film

as Self

Master of Love

Hilde Warren and Death

1917

5.9

Television (3)

Das Jahrhundert des Theaters

2002

as Self (archive footage)

Film Emigration from Nazi Germany

as Self

German Film Award

as Self

Crew (93)

Movies (92)

M the Damned

1982

Original Film Writer

6.1

Journey to the Lost City

1960

Director

6.6

Journey to the Lost City

1960

Screenplay

6.6

The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse

1960

Director

6.8

The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse

1960

Producer

6.8

The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse

Screenplay

The Indian Tomb

Director

The Indian Tomb

Writer

The Tiger of Eschnapur

1959

Director

6.3

The Tiger of Eschnapur

1959

Writer

6.3

While the City Sleeps

1956

Director

6.9

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

Director

Moonfleet

Director

Human Desire

Director

The Big Heat

Director

The Blue Gardenia

Director

The Black Vampire

Original Film Writer

Clash by Night

Director

Rancho Notorious

Director

Original Story

House by the River

Director

American Guerrilla in the Philippines

1950

Director

5.4

Secret Beyond the Door

1947

Director

6.5

Secret Beyond the Door

Producer

Cloak and Dagger

Director

Scarlet Street

Director

Scarlet Street

Producer

The Woman in the Window

Director

Ministry of Fear

Director

Hangmen Also Die!

Adaptation

Hangmen Also Die!

Director

Hangmen Also Die!

Original Story

Hangmen Also Die!

Producer

Moontide

Co-Director

Western Union

Director

Man Hunt

Director

Confirm or Deny

Co-Director

The Return of Frank James

Director

You and Me

Director

You and Me

Producer

You Only Live Once

Director

Fury

Director

Fury

Screenplay

Liliom

Director

Liliom

Writer

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse

1933

Director

7.6

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse

1933

Producer

7.6

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse

1933

Screenplay

7.6

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse

Director

Director

Screenplay

Woman in the Moon

Director

Woman in the Moon

Producer

Woman in the Moon

Screenplay

Spies

Director

Spies

Writer

Metropolis

Director

Metropolis

Editor

Metropolis

Screenplay

Die Nibelungen: Siegfried

1924

Director

7.7

Die Nibelungen: Siegfried

1924

Screenplay

7.7

Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge

1924

Director

7.5

Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler

1922

Director

7.7

Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler

Screenplay

Destiny

Director

Destiny

Writer

The Indian Tomb, Part II: The Tiger of Eschnapur

1921

Writer

5.9

Four Around the Woman

1921

Director

5.9

Four Around the Woman

1921

Screenplay

5.9

The Indian Tomb, Part I: The Mission of the Yoghi

1921

Writer

5.6

The Spiders: Part 2 - The Diamond Ship

1920

Director

5.9

The Spiders: Part 2 - The Diamond Ship

Writer

The Wandering Image

Director

The Wandering Image

Writer

The Mistress of the World, Part VIII: The Revenge of Maud Fergusson

1920

Writer

6.0

Wolkenbau und Flimmerstern

1919

Writer

The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea

1919

Director

5.9

The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea

1919

Writer

5.9

Die Rache ist mein

1919

Writer

The Plague in Florence

Screenplay

Harakiri

Director

Die Frau mit den Orchideen

1919

Writer

Lilith and Ly

1919

Writer

The Dance of Death

1919

Screenplay

Half-Blood

1919

Director

Half-Blood

1919

Screenplay

Master of Love

1919

Director

3.0

Bettler GmbH

1919

Writer

Die Hochzeit im Excentricclub

1917

Screenplay

Hilde Warren and Death

1917

Writer

5.9

Die Peitsche

1916

Screenplay

Giorgio Moroder's Metropolis

Director

Television (1)

The Word According to Whoopi

2007

Sound Mixer