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His best-known films include The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) and The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941). His film The Life of Emile Zola (1937) won the Academy Award for Best Picture, the second biographical feature to do so. Early life and career.
With his wife Charlotte Hagenbruch he started his own film production . He was said to have tired of acting; he appeared in nearly 50 films over the course of his career, mainly in the 1920s, and in several of his films he also functioned as director.
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1. The Life of Emile Zola (1937) Passed | 116 min | Biography, Drama. 7.2. Rate. The biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfus Affair. Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Paul Muni, Gale Sondergaard, Joseph Schildkraut, Gloria Holden. Votes: 9,001. Watch on Prime Video.
William Dieterle was a German actor and film director with an extensive Hollywood career. This biography of William Dieterle provides detailed information about his childhood, life, achievements, works & timeline.
May 7, 2013 · William Dieterle (born July 15, 1893, Ludwigshafen, Germany—died December 8, 1972, Ottobrunn) was a German-born filmmaker who directed a diverse range of movies but was perhaps best known for a series of acclaimed biopics, one of which won the Warner Brothers studio its first-ever Academy Award for best picture. Early work
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Jan 13, 1992 · Directed and produced by William Dieterle at RKO after his triumphant Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Devil and Daniel Webster is the finest of the ambitious productions that followed in the wake of Citizen Kane.
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William Dieterle (Germany, 1893), who had acted in Berlin productions of theater director Max Reinhardt and had become a cinema actor as well, debuted as filmmaker with Der Mensch am Wege (1923), based on the Leo Tolstoy's short story "Where Love Is, God Is" and featuring an unknown Marlene Dietrich, but remained more famous as an actor.
