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Filmmaker · Austria

Paul Fejős

Died in 1963

Paul Fejős (1897-1963), born in Budapest, a doctor of medicine, began in Hungarian cinema, left for New York in 1923, where he worked as a laboratory technician at the Rockefeller Institute, then made two films in Hollywood that brought him recognition. Back in Europe in 1931, he made films in France, Hungary, Austria and Denmark, then filmed in Madagascar, the Seychelles and Indonesia for Danish and Swedish companies, and in Peru. Having become an anthropologist, he directed the Wenner-Gren Foundation in New York until his death.

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