Arthur Robison
Arthur Robison ( born June 25, 1883 in Chicago, Illinois, † October 20, 1935 in Berlin) was a German film director and screenwriter.
Life
Arthur Robison was the son of a German - American. He studied medicine in Munich and worked as a stage actor in Germany and Switzerland. 1914 began his work in film, first as an author. He made his directorial debut in 1916 with nights of horror.
Among his most important contributions to German cinema is one of the both Expressionism and the chamber feature film zuzählende plant shade from 1923 Produced without intertitles film was developed in close collaboration with cinematographer Fritz Arno Wagner and film set designer Albin Grau. ; Robison is the expressive actresses leadership.
1927 he directed The Last Waltz, the first production of Parufamet. In 1929, he filmed The Informer by Liam O'Flaherty and then worked for MGM in Hollywood. Starting in 1933 Robison turned back to Germany for the UFA. Two months after the filming of The Student of Prague died Arthur Robison. For many of his films, he also wrote the screenplay.