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Edgar Georg Ulmer (/ ˈ ʌ l m ər /; September 17, 1904 – September 30, 1972) was a Jewish-Moravian, Austrian-American film director who mainly worked on Hollywood B movies and other low-budget productions, eventually earning the epithet 'The King of PRC', due to his extremely prolific output for the Poverty Row studios.
May 8, 2024 · Edgar G. Ulmer was an American director known as a supreme stylist of the B-film. His movies, many of which were shot in a week and made on a minuscule budget, notably include The Black Cat (1934) and Detour (1945).
- Michael Barson
The major genres that Ulmer created were: dramas, adventure, comedy, crime and romances. Here is a list of his filmography from beginning to end. Ulmer's career spanned 44 years from 1920 to 1964. His highest rate film is Sunrise (1927) at 8.4.
Edgar G. Ulmer was born on September 17, 1904 in Olmütz, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Olomouc, Czech Republic]. He was a director and writer, known for The Naked Dawn (1955), The Black Cat (1934) and Isle of Forgotten Sins (1943). He was married to Shirley Ulmer and Joan Warner.
- September 17, 1904
- September 30, 1972
Jan 24, 2003 · Edgar G. Ulmer is famous principally for The Black Cat (1934) and Detour (1945). These stylish and eccentric works have achieved cult status, but Ulmer’s other films remain relatively obscure and his reputation is far from assured.
- Erik Ulman
Mar 19, 2019 · We pick our favourite Edgar G. Ulmer films in an attempt to piggyback on the long-awaited release of DETOUR by the Criterion collection. Any excuse to talk Ulmer! Listen to The Important...
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Edgar G. Ulmer is perhaps best known today for considered by many to be the epitome of a certain noir style that transcends its B-list origins. But in his lifetime he never achieved the celebrity of his fellow Austrian and German émigré directors-Billy Wilder, Otto Preminger, Fred Zinnemann, and Robert Siodmak.
