Charles Klein (director)
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Born28 January 1898
DiedFebruary 1981 (aged 83)
Andernach, West Germany
OccupationsFilm director, writer
Yearsactive1928-1940 (film)
Charles Klein | |
|---|---|
| Born | 28 January 1898 |
| Died | February 1981 (aged 83) Andernach, West Germany |
| Occupations | Film director, writer |
| Years active | 1928-1940 (film) |
Charles Klein (1898–1981) was a German film director, screenwriter and novelist.[1][2] He began his career in Hollywood during the silent era. In 1928 he produced The Telltale Heart, an expressionist short film version of the Edgar Allan Poe story.[3] He later moved to Germany, but the Second World War brought an end to his film career and he was called up to the Wehrmacht.
- Blindfold (1928)
- Pleasure Crazed (1928)
- The Telltale Heart (1928, short)
- The Sin Sister (1929)
- When the Village Music Plays on Sunday Nights (1933)
- Gypsy Blood (1934)
- Urlaub auf Ehrenwort (1938)
- The Fourth Is Not Coming (1939)
- Woman Without a Past (1939)
- Her Private Secretary (1940)
