Hans Jacoby (1904–1963) was a German screenwriter. Jacoby was of Jewish background[1] and was forced to go into exile when the Nazi Party took power in 1933. Jacoby settled in the United States for many years, working on the screenplays of a number of Hollywood productions. He returned to Germany in the mid-1950s, and worked in the West German film industry until his death.
Hans Jacoby | |
|---|---|
| Born | 23 October 1904 |
| Died | 31 October 1963 |
| Occupation | Screenwriter |
| Years active | 1921-1963 |
Selected filmography
editScreenwriter
edit- Mademoiselle Josette, My Woman (1926)
- The Land of Smiles (1930)
- There Goes Susie (1934)
- I Was an Adventuress (1938)
- Gibraltar (1938)
- I Was an Adventuress (1938)
- Princess Tarakanova (1938)
- There's No Tomorrow (1939)
- Night in December (1940)
- I Was an Adventuress (1940)
- Between Us Girls (1942)
- The Amazing Mrs. Holliday (1943)
- Phantom of the Opera (1943)
- Tars and Spars (1946)
- Champagne for Caesar (1950)
- Tarzan and the Slave Girl (1950)
- Sirocco (1951)
- Reunion in Reno (1951)
- Tarzan's Savage Fury (1952)
- Taxi (1953)
- Carnival Story (1954)
- Circus of Love (1954)
- Ten on Every Finger (1954)
- Portrait of an Unknown Woman (1954)
- Stranger from Venus (1954)
- Vater sein dagegen sehr (1957)
- The Mad Bomberg (1957)
- Eva (1958)
- It Happened in Broad Daylight (1958)
- Heart Without Mercy (1958)
- The Man Who Walked Through the Wall (1959)
- Menschen im Hotel (1959)
- Das schwarze Schaf (1960)
- The Good Soldier Schweik (1960)
- The Juvenile Judge (1960)
- The Liar (1961)
- Street of Temptation (1962)
- Max the Pickpocket (1962)
- Axel Munthe, The Doctor of San Michele (1962)
- A Nearly Decent Girl (1963)
References
edit- ^ Prawer p.212
Bibliography
edit- Prawer, S.S. Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910–1933. Berghahn Books, 2005.
External links
edit- Hans Jacoby at IMDb
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