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Filmmaker · Iceland

Loftur Guðmundsson

Died in 1952

Loftur Guðmundsson was born on 18 August 1892 in Reykjavík. For a quarter of a century he was one of the country's leading portrait photographers, at the head of a prosperous studio, and he also wrote songs. In 1923 he wrote, produced and directed a short silent comedy inspired by Chaplin, screened at the Nýja Bíó on 17 June and regarded as the first Icelandic fiction film; in 1925 he made the first Icelandic documentary about the country. He shot a second feature film in 1951, based on a novel by Jón Mýrdal, and died on 4 January 1952.

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