WILLIAM DIETERLE

William Dieterle (born Wilhelm Dieterle) was a German director from the 1920s to the 1960s who also acted in German movies from the 1920s to the early 1930s, including for the greatest German expressionist directors of the 1920s. He went to America in the early 1930s and he went to work for Warner Bros, mostly making mainstream movies, including several of their prestige movies. In 1941, he made the very surreal "All That Money Can Buy" for RKO, and that showed that he hadn't forgotten what he learned from working with those great German directors. Some of his other movies include: The Story of Louis Pasteur, The Life of Emile Zola (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film), Juarez, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (the 1939 version), and many, many more! He passed away in 1972 at the age of 79.