Joseph Kaufman

ISBN-13: 9783753111872 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str.

Leonhard Gmür

Opis

A detailed biography of the American actor and director Joseph Kaufman (1882-1918) . Kaufman's career started in the first decade of the Twentieth Century in Vaudeville, Broadway and traveling Stock Companies till 1914, when he joined the Lubin Motion Picture company in Pittsburgh, first as an actor and subsequently as a director. In 1916 Kaufman left Lubin and was contracted by Famous Players / Paramount and other major companies to direct features with leading stars such as Billie Burke, Clara Kimball Young or Pauline Frederick. Early 1918 Joseph Kaufman became a victim of the pandemic "Spanish Flu", he died in the age of thirty-six. Married to actress Ethel Clayton, Kaufman's filmography includes some sixty titles within a time-frame of only four years, among those more than adozen feature length films under his direction. Today, with the exception of one feature and one short film, all motion pictures with Joseph Kaufman are considered lost, and Kaufman is forgotten or ignored even by most of the film-historians.This annotated filmography is the first publication about this director and actor to embrace his whole career from his early acting experiences to his last unfinished film.

Biographie und Filmographie des Regisseurs Joseph Kaufman in englischer Sprache - Biography and Filmography of director, and actor Joseph Kaufman.

O autorze

Gmür, Leonhard geboren und aufgewachsen in Luzern, Studium in Bern und München. Filmkritiker, Photograph, Aufnahmeleiter und Produktionsleiter in deutschen und internationalen Spielfilmen, unter anderem mit Regisseuren wie Fred Zinnemann, Douglas Trumbull (Showscan) und Jean-Jacques Annaud, sowie mehrere James Bond Produktionen. Lehrauftrag an der Universität Siegen.Publikationen: "Skizzen zum polnischen Film" (1963), "Der junge deutsche Film" (Katalog 1967), "Germany" (Coautor 1970), seit 1998 Redaktion der Filmdatenbank "kinotv.com", 2006 bis 2014 Mitherausgeber des jährlich erscheinenden Neuen Filmlexikon. Filmography Jahrgangsbände 1913 bis 1918 . Monographien zu den Regisseuren Ivan Pyrjev (2012), Rex Ingram (2013), John H. Collins (2018), Allen Holubar (2019), Joseph Kaufman (2020)