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Anatole Litvak
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Director, Producer Born: May 10, 1902 in Kiev, Ukraine, Russian Empire Death: December 15, 1974 in Neuilly, France Biography:Born in Kiev, Michael Anatole Litwak was a stage actor and assistant director as a teenager. He entered Soviet cinema in 1923, working in Nordkino studios as a set decorator and assistant director. He directed his first film, the 1925 release Tatiana (Hearts and Dollars), but left the Soviet Union that year for Germany, where he edited "G.W. Pabst"'s "Die Freudlose Gasse" ("The Joyless Street", 1925), assistant directed, and helmed the early '30s features "Dolly Macht Karriere" (1931), "Nie Wieder Liebe" (1932), and "Das Lied Einer Nacht" (1933). Fleeing the Nazis, Litvak directed films in England and France, among them the international hit "Mayerling" (1936). He came to Hollywood in 1937, where he helmed many handsome and polished features, specializing in crime films ("The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse" [1938], "Confessions of a Nazi Spy" [1939], "Castle on the Hudson" [1940], "Out of the Fog", [1941])... Full Biography
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