Oscar Friedrich Werndorff

Nacimiento : 1880-05-30,

Muerte : 1938-11-06

Historia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Oscar Friedrich Werndorff (1880–1938) was an Austrian art director. After leaving Germany in the early 1930s he moved to Britain where he worked in the British film industry. He co-directed the 1931 film The Bells.

Películas

Sabotaje
Art Direction
Karl Anton Verloc y su esposa poseen un pequeño cine en un tranquilo suburbio de Londres donde viven aparentemente felices. Pero la Sra. Verloc no sabe que su marido tiene un secreto que afectará a su relación y amenazará la vida de su hermano adolescente.
East Meets West
Art Direction
The story of an Eastern sultan who is inordinately proud of his son. The young man bids fair to break his father's heart by conducting an affair with the wife of a notorious criminal.
Rhodes of Africa
Art Direction
Rhodes of Africa is a 1936 British biographical film charting the life of Cecil Rhodes. It was directed by Berthold Viertel and starred Walter Huston, Oskar Homolka, Basil Sydney and Bernard Lee.
El agente secreto
Art Direction
Durante la Primera Guerra Mundual, a tres agentes secretos ingleses se les asigna la misión de asesinar a un misterioso espía alemán. A dos de ellos se les planteará el conflicto entre el deber de cumplir la misión y sus conciencias.
The Passing of the Third Floor Back
Art Direction
The tenants of an old London boarding house spend their time in petty bickering and sniping until a mysterious stranger arrives at their door.
39 escalones
Art Direction
Richard Hannay está en un music-hall londinense. De repente, suena un disparo y comienza una pelea. En medio del tumulto, una chica asustada le pregunta si puede ir con él. Richard accede y la lleva a su apartamento...
Perfect Understanding
Art Direction
A young couple decide to marry under the condition that they agree never to disagree. That agreement is soon put to the test when the husband finds himself attracted to a beautiful young woman.
Ensayo de boda
Art Direction
A pesar de que su abuela lo presiona para que elija esposa, Reggie, marqués de Buckminster, se muestra reacio a contraer matrimonio.
The Bells
Director
Mathias, an Alsatian innkeeper, murders a rich Pole staying at his inn. However, Mathias' conscience will not let him rest, and the murdered man's spirit drives the innkeeper nearly mad. The victim's brother calls for an inquest and brings with him a sideshow hypnotist, who is supposedly able to read minds. Mathias, as burgomaster, is called upon to conduct the inquest, but under the intuitive eye of the hypnotist cannot resist torment of his own conscience.
City of Song
Production Design
A tourist guide in Naples is taken on by an English woman impressed by his singing, and who regards him as her protege.
The Singing City
Art Direction
A tourist guide in Naples is taken on by a Viennese woman impressed by his singing, and who regards him as her protege. This film was released as a German version and English Version known as "The City of Song". Brigitte Helm once portrays a beautiful femme fatale who displays her affection and lust for her tourist guide which is paralleled with the main bodied theme of the early romanticist songs played throughout.
The Wrecker
Art Direction
The Wrecker is a British film that tells the story of a crook who organises train crashes to discredit the railway, in favour of a rival bus company. The stunts in this film were groundbreaking for 1920s British cinema A scene wich has been discribed as "the most spectacular rail crash in cinema history" was recorded by 22 cameras.
The Woman on the Rack
Art Direction
a silent movie by Robert Wiene
Ghost Train
Art Direction
Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is said to travel these parts at dead of night, carrying ghosts from a long-ago train wreck in the area. The travelers eventually get to the bottom of the things that go bump in the night.
Ledige Töchter
Art Direction
Variety
Art Direction
Un acróbata deja su familia por una joven, dedicándose a realizar ejercicios de acrobacia con ella en el trapecio. Un día, un famoso trapecista les invita a ambos a unirse a su show de Berlín.
Der Demütige und die Tänzerin
Art Direction
Toni wants to become an opera-singer. Her mother was once simple chanteuse. Toni marries the brutal industrialist Liesegang. An Italian doctor falls in love with Toni. He want's to see Liesegang dead.
Carlos and Elisabeth
Art Direction
Carlos y Elisabeth es una película dramática muda alemana de 1924 dirigida por Richard Oswald y protagonizada por Conrad Veidt