John Brahm
John Brahm, actually Hans Julius Brahm ( born August 17, 1893 in Hamburg, † October 11, 1982 in Malibu, California ) was a German director and actor.
Life
Brahm, a nephew of the director and theater director Otto Brahm, his acting career began in 1911 at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg. He played here four years and then was war participants in the First World War.
In 1919, he was a theater director and worked in Hamburg, Prague, Berlin and Vienna. At the Burgtheater in 1929, he directed the world premiere of the diptych Haunt ( The black mask and Hexenritt ) by Gerhart Hauptmann. As an assistant director and dialog director, he made first contacts to the film.
In 1933 he emigrated with his wife Dolly Haas to France in 1934 to England and the USA in 1937, where he worked as a film director in Hollywood. There he went through his horror thrillers Scotland Yard intervenes ( 1944) and Scotland Yard strangest case (1945 ) a name. With The Golden Plague and fallen from the sky, he turned the mid-1950s, two films in Germany.