Andrew Marton

Marton was born in Budapest, Hungary. After high-school graduation in 1922, he was taken by Alfréd Deésy to Vienna to work at Sascha-Film, mostly as an assistant editor. After a few months, he caught the attention of director Ernst Lubitsch, who convinced him to try Hollywood. Marton returned to Europe in 1927 and worked as the main editor of the Tobis company in Berlin, and later as an assistant director in Vienna. He directed his Two O'Clock in the Morning, " his first feature film, in 1929 in Great Britain. He joined a German expedition to Tibet in 1934, where he filmed Demon of the Himalayas. Marton cited that he was Jewish as a reason that the film could not be released with his name as director, citing a conversation he had had with Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. After returning to Hungary, he directed his only Hungarian movie in 1935 in Budapest. Between 1936 and 1939, he worked with Alexander Korda in London. After the outbreak of World War II, he moved to the United States. During the 1940s and 1950s, he worked mostly for MGM Studios. In 1954, he founded his own production company with Ivan Tors, Louis Meyer and László Benedek. Ray worked as both a feature film director and a second unit director in many big-budget epic films. On 55 Days at Peking, Marton went from second unit direction to act as one of the film's uncredited additional directors, devising the film's opening sequence. Marton was active until the middle of the 1970s. On 7 January 1992, he died of pneumonia in Santa Monica, California.

The Seventh Cross (1944) Ben Hur (1959) Cleopatra (1963) The Last Roman (1968–69) Catch-22 (1970) Kelly's Heroes (1970) The Day of the Jackal (1973) The Message (1976), aka Mohammad, Messenger of God

Eternal Love (1929) The Song Is Ended (1930) Him or Me (1930) Shadows of the Underworld (1931) I Go Out and You Stay Here (1931) A Tremendously Rich Man (1932) The Rebel (1932) Five from the Jazz Band (1932) The Prodigal Son (1934)