Lajos BÃró
Lajos Biró (birth name: Lajos Blue; born August 22, 1880 in Oradea, Austria - Hungary, † September 9, 1948 in London) was a British writer of Hungarian descent, who became known in particular for his collaboration with film director Alexander Korda.
Life
The Blue born as Lajos began towards the end of the First World War his career as a screenwriter in the film industry and worked throughout his career in the development of some 50 films.
During the silent film era, he worked first at the German productions and made his debut as an author of the intertitles for Don Juan's Three Nights ( 1917). Shortly thereafter, he met the originating also from Hungary film director Alexander Korda and later became head writer of the production company London Film Productions. Among the most important films of common Korda and Biró include Prince and the Pauper (1920), A lost world (1922 ), which was created by Biró novel Serpoletto, tragedy in House of Habsburg (1924 ) and A Dubarry of today (1927 ).
In addition, however, he also worked with other famous directors and wrote the screenplays or intertitles for films such as The House Molitor (1922 ) by Hans Karl Breslauer, The Forbidden Paradise ( 1924), Ernst Lubitsch directed by Biró's play The Czarina, Hotel Lviv (1927 ) by Mauritz Stiller after his story Színmü Négy felvonásban, The heart thief (1927 ) by Nils Chris Ander after his story A Rablólovag and The way of All Flesh (1927 ) by Victor Fleming.
In the first Oscar ceremony in 1929, he was nominated for an Oscar in the category of best original story nominated for The Last Command (1928 ) with Emil Jannings, but lost Ben Hecht, who received an Oscar for Underworld (1927 ).
His team also continued with the advent of talkies and so followed by films such as infidelities (1931 ) by Steve Sekely. At the beginning of the 1930s finally began his work as writer, an original or dialogue writer in English productions such as The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933 ) by A. Korda, Catherine the Great (1934 ) by Paul Czinner, in turn, on his play the Czarina based, the Private Life of Don Juan ( 1934) by A. Korda, the scarlet flower ( 1934) by Harold Young, Rembrandt ( 1936) by A. Korda, the man who wanted to change the world (1936 ) by Lothar Mendes is What to Come (1936 ) by HG Wells, Under the red Robe (1937 ) by Victor Sjöström, visit to the night (1938 ) by Tim Whelan, danger at Doro pass ( 1938) by Alexander Korda's younger brother Zoltan Korda, Puszta Love ( 1939) Géza of Bolváry, the Four Feathers (1939 ) by Z. Korda, Hotel Imperial (1939 ) by Robert Florey, the Négy by Biró story Színmü felvonásban arose, the Thief of Bagdad (1940 ) by T. Whelan, Ludwig Berger and Michael Powell, Five graves to Cairo ( 1943) by Billy Wilder and An Ideal Husband (1947 ) by A. Korda.
As a screenwriter, he worked some with other well-known authors such as Carl Zuckmayer (Rembrandt, 1936) and Hans together Gustl Kernmayr ( Puszta Love, 1939).