Edgar G. Ulmer | |
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Born | |
Died | September 30, 1972 | (aged 68)
Occupation(s) | Film director, screenwriter, set designer |
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Spouse | Shirley Ulmer (married 1935 -) |
Children | Arianne Ulmer |
Edgar Georg Ulmer (/ˈʌlmər/; September 17, 1904 – September 30, 1972) was a Jewish-Moravian,[1] Austrian-American film director who mainly worked on Hollywood B movies and other low-budget productions, eventually earning the epithet 'The King of PRC',[2] due to his extremely prolific output for the Poverty Row studios. His stylish and eccentric works came to be appreciated by auteur theory-espousing film critics in the years following his retirement. Ulmer's most famous productions include the horror film The Black Cat[3] (1934) and the film noir Detour[4] (1945).