Wilhelm Thiele
Wilhelm Thiele, also William Thiele (1890–1975) was an Austrian screenwriter and film director. He directed over 40 films between 1921 and 1960.
Wilhelm Thiele
- Born
- 1890. · Vienna.
- Died
- 1975. · Woodland Hills.
- Nationality
- Austria.
- Occupation
- screenwriter, actor, director and writer.
- Honours
- German Film Award.
- Languages
- German.
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Thiele started his show career as a stage actor. He got his start in Austrian and German film during the 1920s, most often as a director of film comedies. His biggest success was the highly influential musical film The Three from the Filling Station (1930), the highest-grossing film in Germany that year. Thiele, who was of Jewish descent, left Germany during the Nazi Era. His first film in Hollywood, Lottery Lover in 1935, was without success and Thiele never achieved the same level of fame in Hollywood as he had in Germany. He mostly made B-Pictures, but is credited with giving actress Dorothy Lamour her big start in movies with The Jungle Princess (1936). He also directed the first two RKO Tarzan films. In the 1950s, he worked as a director in American television including 26 episodes of The Lone Ranger and 36 episodes of Cavalcade of America. His last two films, The Last Pedestrian and Sabine und die hundert Männer, were both made in Germany and released in 1960.
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Wilhelm Thiele (10 May 1890 – 7 September 1975) was a screenwriter, actor, writer, film director and artist. Wilhelm Thiele was born in Vienna, according to the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The Bibliothèque nationale de France records the fuller form Vienne (Autriche-Hongrie, aujourd'hui Autriche). Wilhelm Thiele died in Los Angeles, California, United States, according to the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
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Personal life
Wilhelm Thiele was married and had three children. His younger brother was the director Eugen Thiele.
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1975
Wilhelm Thiele died at Woodland Hills.
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- 1.https://web.archive.org/web/20090115045001/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/1977
- 2.Siegbert Salomon Prawer, Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933, Berghahn Books (2007), p. 211
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