Alfred Halm

Alfred Halm
File:Alfred Halm (BerlLeben 1905-12 JEgers).jpg Alfred Halm and family in 1905, his American-born wife Minnie Landes and son, Harry.
Born	Alfred Hahn (1861-12-09)9 December 1861 Vienna, Austrian Empire
Died	5 February 1951(1951-02-05) (aged 89) West Berlin, West Germany
Other names	H. Fredal
Occupations	Film director, screenwriter
Years active	1914–1933
Relatives	Harry Halm (son)

Alfred Halm (born Alfred Hahn; 9 December 1861 – 5 February 1951) was an Austrian screenwriter and film director. He was the father of the actor Harry Halm, who being a Jew after the Nazis seized power in 1933, could not take part in further films until World War II ended.

Selected filmography

Screenwriter

• A Drive into the Blue (1919)
• By Order of Pompadour (1924)
• Love's Finale (1925)
• Her Husband's Wife (1926)
• The Schimeck Family (1926)
• When I Came Back (1926)
• Vienna, How it Cries and Laughs (1926)
• The Bohemian Dancer (1926)
• The White Horse Inn (1926)
• How Do I Marry the Boss? (1927)
• The Most Beautiful Woman in Paris (1928)
• Villa Falconieri (1928)
• Dolly Gets Ahead (1930)
• Cruiser Emden (1932)
• The Emperor's Waltz (1933)
• Happy (1933)

Director

• The Ring of Giuditta Foscari (1917)
• The Serenyi (1918)
• The Nun and the Harlequin (1918)
• Rose Bernd (1919)
• Pogrom (1919)
• The Peruvian (1919)
• The Gallant King (1920)
• The Golden Crown (1920)
• The Last Kolczaks (1920)
• The Marquise of Armiani (1920)
• The Oath of Peter Hergatz (1921)
• Marquise von Pompadour (1922)
• Friend Ripp (1923)
• The Woman on the Panther (1923)
• The Gypsy Girl at the Alcove (1923)
• The Man on the Comet (1925)

Bibliography

• Kreimeier, Klaus. The UFA Story: A Story of Germany's Greatest Film Company 1918-1945. University of California Press, 1999.

External links

• Alfred Halm at IMDb