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Franz Weihmayr

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Occupation
  
Cinematographer

Spouse
  
Ada Tschechowa

Role
  
Cinematographer

Name
  
Franz Weihmayr

Years active
  
1924 - 1964 (film)


Born
  
30 December 1903
Munich, Germany

Died
  
May 26, 1969, Munich, Germany

Movies
  
Girls in Uniform, Love '47, Das doppelte Lottchen, Triumph of the Will, Die grose Liebe

Similar People
  
Sepp Allgeier, Rolf Hansen, Carl Froelich, Leontine Sagan, Walter Frentz

Franz Weihmayr (30 December 1903 – 26 May 1969) was a German cinematographer who worked on over eighty films between 1924 and 1964. He was one of the leading German cinematographers of the Nazi era, working on a number of Zarah Leander films and the 1935 propaganda documentary Triumph of the Will. After the Second World War Weihmayr worked in West German cinema including rubble films such as Love '47.

Selected filmography

  • They May Not Marry (1929)
  • Do You Know That Little House on Lake Michigan? (1929)
  • On the Reeperbahn at Half Past Midnight (1929)
  • The Blue Angel (1930)
  • Mädchen in Uniform (1931)
  • Anna and Elizabeth (1933)
  • Hans Westmar (1933)
  • William Tell (1934)
  • Wolga-Wolga (1936)
  • Calling the Tune (1936)
  • The House of the Spaniard (1936)
  • The Court Concert (1936)
  • To New Shores (1937)
  • Daphne and the Diplomat (1937)
  • La Habanera (1937)
  • The Blue Fox (1938)
  • By a Silken Thread (1938)
  • Heimat (1938)
  • My Aunt, Your Aunt (1939)
  • The Life and Loves of Tschaikovsky (1939)
  • Das Herz der Königin (1940)
  • Wunschkonzert (1940)
  • Beloved World (1942)
  • Die große Liebe (1942)
  • Back Then (1943)
  • Nora (1944)
  • Paths in Twilight (1948)
  • Love '47 (1949)
  • Amico (1949)
  • Two Times Lotte (1950)
  • Who Is This That I Love? (1950)
  • My Niece Susanne (1950)
  • Melody of Fate (1950)
  • Dr. Holl (1951)
  • The Great Temptation (1952)
  • Two People (1952)
  • I and You (1953)
  • Anna Louise and Anton (1953)
  • Don't Forget Love (1953)
  • Conchita and the Engineer (1954)
  • Canaris Master Spy (1954)
  • Men at a Dangerous Age (1954)
  • Devil in Silk (1956)
  • Marriages Forbidden (1957)
  • A Summer You Will Never Forget (1959)

    • References

    Franz Weihmayr Wikipedia
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