Biography: life and films
F.W. Murnau was a German film director, screenwriter and producer whose birth name was Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe. He was born in Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany on 28th December 1888 and died in Santa Barbara, California, USA on 11th March 1931, aged 42.His best films as a film director include Der Bucklige und die Tänzerin (1920), Phantom (1922), Der Letzte Mann (1924), Sunrise (1927) and Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931), and whose best work as an actor include Friedrich Porges's Der Film im Film (1925), Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) and Sunrise (1927).
F.W. Murnau directed 23 films, appeared in 3 films and scripted 2 films.
His most frequent genres include: drama (16 films), comedy-drama (5), romance (4), Horror (3), comedy-romance (2) and Fantasy (2).
Our average rating for F.W. Murnau over all films is: 4.1
Filmography
Key: d = director; a = actor; w = writer
Der Knabe in Blau (1919) [d]
Abend - Nacht - Morgen (1920) [d]
Der Bucklige und die Tänzerin (1920) [d]
Der Januskopf (1920) [d]
Satanas (1920) [d]
Der Gang in die Nacht (1921) [d]
Sehnsucht (1921) [d]
Der Brennende Acker (1922) [d]
Der brennende Acker (1922) [d]
Marizza, genannt die Schmuggler-Madonna (1922) [d]
Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922) [d]
Phantom (1922) [d]
Die Finanzen des Großherzogs (1924) [d]
Komödie des Herzens (1924) [w]
Der Film im Film (1925) [a]
Faust (1926) [d]
Sunrise (1927) [a,d]
4 Devils (1928) [d]
City Girl (1930) [d]
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