Gustav Machatý

Gustav Machatý was born on 9 May 1901 in Prague, the son of a property investor. Without finishing secondary school, he worked as a cinema pianist, acted from 1917, then became a screenwriter, producer and set designer, before directing his own films in the late twenties. Hired at the end of 1936 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he had only a minor career in Hollywood, made short films for the American Office of War Information, then returned to Europe in 1951 and died in Munich on 13 December 1963.

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• CinemaEcstasyExtaseGustav Machatý · 1933Cinema