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Paul Fejos. Pál Fejős (27 January 1897 – 23 April 1963), known professionally as Paul Fejos, was a Hungarian-American director of feature films and documentaries who worked in a number of countries including the United States. He also studied medicine in his youth and became a prominent anthropologist later in life.
Veteran, World War I. Noted film screenwriter, director and anthropologist. He was responsible for developing the use of carbon-14 dating of fossils. Detroit Free Press 4/25/1963
May 20, 2016 · It begins with the much-anticipated premiere of the restoration of King of Jazz (released April 19, 1930), a musical review dominated by the expansive figure of Paul Whiteman, the band leader, today best remembered as the patron of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue.
Aug 31, 2012 · Fejos himself, despite being heralded by the magazine Close-Up in 1928 as a newcomer on par with the established Ernst Lubitsch, Murnau, Paul Leni, and Henry King, was virtually forgotten after he left America in 1931, having survived barely three years there as a director.
Pál Fejös. Director: The Last Moment. Budapest-born director Paul Fejos first called attention to himself in Kecskemét, Hungary, as a student actor. During World War I he was a soldier in the army of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and after the war he became a student of chemistry.
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Pál Fejös. Director: The Last Moment. Budapest-born director Paul Fejos first called attention to himself in Kecskemét, Hungary, as a student actor. During World War I he was a soldier in the army of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and after the war he became a student of chemistry.
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PAUL FEJOS, President and Director of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropologi cal Research, died of a coronary attack on April 23, 1963. After four operations, his staunch heart could stand no more. He was one of the vanishing breed of anthro pologists who came into the field from other disciplines, and he was a man of many facets.
