Otto Lang (film producer)

Otto Lang ( born January 21, 1908 in Zenica, Austria - Hungary (now Bosnia ); † January 30, 2006 in Seattle, Washington) was a native of Austria American skiers and film producer.

Life

After the fall of the monarchy, the family moved to Salzburg. Lang began his career as a ski instructor at Semmering, 1935, he emigrated to America. Lang, founder of ski schools on Mount Rainier, Mount Baker and Mount Hood in the 1930s, was initially known as a double for stars, and later he was successful as a film director and producer.

Among his most famous films include password 777 (1948, Call Northside 777 ) The case of Cicero (1952, 5 finger) and Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970). In the first two he was a producer, co-producer of the last Japan - sequences.

For the Hollywood comedy Thin Ice, he was obliged in 1937 as a double for the ski scenes and supervisor for the action shots, the following year, he worked on the Ski Flight documentation. Then he began to work as an assistant director for 20th Century Fox. The professional skier was employed by Darryl F. Zanuck and edited in 1941 as Technical Director, the ski sequences of the romantic musical Sun Valley Serenade with Sonja Henie, boosting his movie career began.

In addition, he turned, inter alia, the fantasy production Search for Paradise (1957) and for television, among other things The Man from UNCLE, several parts of the series The Twentieth Century Fox Hour and Beethoven: Ordeal and Triumph. White Witch Doctor ( 1953), created the outdoor scenes in Africa. As a specialist in international venues, the versatile Austro - Americans traveled to every continent on behalf of the film industry. In 1994 he wrote his autobiography, A Bird of Passage - From the Alps of Austria to Hollywood, United States, and he also brought under the title Around the World in 90 Years a book with photos of his trips out.

2002 turned the Salzburg ORF editor Gerald Lehner with Otto Lang in Seattle nor a biographical documentary on the life's work Everything in life is about the skiing. This TV movie ( first aired 2003) was also performed at international festivals, for example in Trento (Trento) and in the small valley.

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