Ewald André Dupont

Ewald André Dupont was born on Dec 25, 1891 in Germany. Ewald André Dupont's big-screen debut came with Die Geierwally directed by Ewald André Dupont in 1921. Ewald André Dupont is known for Piccadilly directed by Ewald André Dupont, Gilda Gray stars as Mabel Greenfield and Anna May Wong as Shosho. The most recent award Ewald André Dupont achieved is Boston Society of Film Critics Awards. The upcoming new movie Ewald André Dupont plays is Magic Fire which will be released on Mar 29, 1956.

German film director E.A. Dupont was an influential critic and newspaper columnist before breaking into the film industry. He wrote several screenplays and worked as a story editor for Richard Oswald before turning to directing in 1917. Over the next eight years Dupont became a respected exponent of the German expressionist movement. He was particularly acclaimed for his film Variétés (1925), which stood out for brilliant lighting effects and fluid camera work. Encouraged by his success, Dupont left Decla-Bioskop and joined Universal in Hollywood, but only completed one film. Crossing the Atlantic again, he signed with British National Pictures in 1928. He briefly became their leading director, again demonstrating his visual flair with two prestige productions: Moulin Rouge (1928) and Piccadilly (1929). The latter was BIP's most expensively made picture up to this time.After the advent of sound Dupont's career began to falter. His first "talkie", the "Titanic" story Atlantic (1929)-- shot in both English and French-- was an expensive flop, due mainly to poor dialogue and stilted performances. His next two ventures, respectively in France and Germany, had an even worse critical reception. Dupont next tried his luck in Hollywood. After 1933 he worked at different times for Universal, Paramount and Warner Brothers. Critical success proved elusive, as almost all of his assignments were low-budget second features. After being fired from the set of Hell's Kitchen (1939) for slapping a junior member of the cast who had mocked his accent, Dupont spent most of the 1940s in Hollywood as a talent agent and publicist. He eventually resumed his directing career with an offbeat minor film noir, The Scarf (1951), and a watchable precursor to Le vol du Phénix (1965), The Steel Lady (1953). Among his last films was the notorious sci-fi stinker L'Homme de Néanderthal (1953). He died of cancer in December 1956.