The world film encyclopedia (1933)

igO (LAC-LEE) Biographies of Film Directors Old Man (Para), The Gay Defender (Para), Feel My Pulse (Para), Half a Bride (Para), Saturday's Children (F.N.), Big Neivs (Patlie), His First Command (Pathe), Laugh and Get Rich (Radio), Smart Woman (Radio), Melody of Life (Radio), Are These Our Children ? (Radio), Phantom Fame (Radio). LACHMAN, Harry. B. Illinois, June 29, 1S86. Began his career as a painter and has done exceptionally "well in this direction, having had pictures hung at the Luxembourg in Paris. Also held a very successful exhibition in London. His motion picture career began in 1925, ^\hen he ■worked for Rex Ingram at Nice. Leaving there he came to England, returned to the Paramount Studios at Joinville, near Paris, and then came back again to England to direct Gertrude Lawrence's first starring film, Aren't We All? (ParaBrit, 1932). Also Directed : Week End Wives (B.I. P.), Under the Greenwood Tree (B.I.P.), The Yellow Mask (B.I. P.), The Love Habit (B.I.P.), The Outsider (Cinema House), The Compulsory Husband (B.I. P.), Song of Soho (B.I. P.), Down Our Street (Para-Brit), Insult (Para-Brit). LAEMMLE, Edward. B. Chicago, Oct. 24, 1SS7. Ed. Chicago. He entered pictures in 1916 and has directed a number of successful films. Directed : Cheating Cheaters (Univ), The Thirteenth Juror (Univ), Man, Woman and Wife (Univ), Held by the Law (Univ), The Drake Case (Univ), Lasca of the Rio Grande (Univ), Defiance (Univ), Marked Men (Univ). LAEMMLE, Ernst. B. Munich, Germany, Sept. 25, 1900. Ed. University of Munich. Has been only six years in the motion picture business but is now a valued member of the production staff at Universal City, and directs many foreign versions for that company. Directed : Broncho Buster (Univ), Prowlers of the Night (Univ), One Man's Game (Univ), Red Clay (Univ), Grip of the Yukon (Univ), Hands Off (Univ), Range Courage (Univ), Phyllis of the Follies (Univ), What Men Want (Univ), Liebe Auf BefeM (Univ German version). LANE, LuPiNO. Director and Actor. (See Players' Biographies.) LANG, Fritz. B. Vienna, 1890. Dark hair, dark eyes. Ht. 6 ft. M. Thea Von Harbou. Intended for an architect, but decided on an artist's career instead. Went to Brussels in 1910, and for a living sold picture postcards, designed by himself, to people in cafes. Studied art in Munich, Success followed, and he went to Paris as a fashion designer. When his war service ended he obtained a contract with the German film company, Decla, as a result of having written several scenarios for them. Rose to be a director but still writes all his scenarios, in collaboration with his wife. Is almost as famous for his monocle as for his directing and is never seen without it. His power of vizualisatiou and immensity of cinema conception has brought him world-wide recognition. His Doctor Mabuse (Decla, 1922) was the first German film to be shown in this country after the war, but he is better remembered for his production of Metropolis (U.F.A., 1926). Also Directed : Destiny (Decla), Betiveen Two Worlds, Nibelung Saga (Decla), Woman in the Moon, The Spy (U.F.A.), " M " (Nero). LEDERMAN, D. Ross. B. Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Dec. 11, 1895. Brown hair, brown eyes. Ht. 6 ft. Wt. 15 St. 10 lb. Ed. Los Angeles ; Santa Monica. Screen career began in 1913, when he started as a prop-man in the Mack Sennett studios. He early specialized in making trick scenes and in the filming of the hair-raising chases which were featured in every early comedy. For a year he was under contract to Warner Bros, for the direction of Rin-tin-tin films. Directed : Texas Ranger (Col), High Speed (Col), The Fighting Marshall (Col), Texas Cyclone (Col), Branded (Col), Phantom of the West (Warner), Heaii of New York (Warner), Manhunter (Warner), Daring Danger (Col), Riding Tornado (Col), Twofisted Law (Col), Range Feud (Col), Riding for Justice (Col), McKenna of the Mounted (Col), Obey the Law (Col). LEE, Rowland, V. B. Findlay, Ohio. Ed. South Orange, New Jersey ; DeWitt Clinton College, New York ; Columbia University. M. Eleanor Worthington. Spent his early days between the New York Stock Exchange, the stage and pictures. Began his work in films with Thomas Ince. After the war, devoted himself to the screen for two years as an actor and for the remainder of the time as a director. In 1932, came to England as a director at the