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Screenwriter, Play Author, Screen Story, Short Story Author Born: 1883 in Nagyvarad, Hungary Death: September 9, 1948 Biography:Lajos (pronounced "Loy-jose") Biró was a Hungarian-born author, journalist, and playwright whose work helped shape the British film industry from the early '30s through the middle of the '40s. Biró was born Lajos Blau in Nagyvarad, Austria-Hungary in 1880. By the start of his twenties, he was working in Vienna as a journalist and drama critic, and starting out as a playwright. The latter activity came to dominate his work after 1910, and his plays were translated and produced in many different languages, including German and English. He was part of the coalition Democratic government that was put in place in Hungary amid the turmoil of the post-World War I era and the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian empire, but he left Budapest and lived for a time in Rome and Paris.
In 1920, Biró began a professional relationship in Vienna with Hungarian-born director Alexander Korda on an adaptation of Mark... Full Biography
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