F. W. Murnau
Birthday
1888/12/28
Day of death
1931/03/11 (42 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Bielefeld, North-Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Also know as
Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 프리드리히 빌헬름 무르나우, F.W. 무르나우, 프리드리히 무르나우, Фрідріх Вільгельм Мурнау, Фрыдрых Вільгельм Мурнаў
Biography
Friedrich Wilhelm “F. W.” Murnau (December 28, 1888 – March 11, 1931) was one of the most influential German film directors of the silent era, and a prominent figure in the expressionist movement in German cinema during the 1920s. Although some of Murnau’s films have been lost, most still survive. While the horror film Nosferatu (1922) is his most famous work, the romantic melodrama Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) is his critically most acclaimed; the British Film Institute's 2012 Sight & S...Read more
Acting
(1927) Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
as Dancer (uncredited)
(2008) Murnau, Borzage and Fox
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(2003) The Way to Murnau
as Himself (archive footage)
(2002) Los 5 Faust de F. W. Murnau
as Himself (archive footage)
(1924) The Film in the Film
as Self
(1928) The Movie City of Hollywood
as Self