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Filmmaker · England

E. A. Dupont

Died in 1956

Ewald André Dupont was born in 1891 in Zeitz, Germany, and kept a film column in a Berlin daily before moving behind the camera. A circus film shot in 1925 brought him an international reputation, Hollywood, then the British studios. The coming of sound broke his career. A Jew, he left Germany in 1933; in the United States, he was dismissed from a shoot in 1939 for slapping a young actor who mocked his accent, became for a time an agent, then returned to modest films and to television. He died in 1956.

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