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Douglas Sirk Film director

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: Germany
  • Born: Apr 26, 1897
  • Died: Jan 14, 1987

Douglas Sirk (born Hans Detlef Sierck; April 26, 1897 - January 14, 1987) was a Danish-German film director best known for his work in Hollywood melodramas in the 1950s.

Sirk was born Hans Detlef Sierck in Hamburg, Germany to Danish parents. He was raised in Denmark, but later moved to Germany as a teenager. He spread his education over three universities. He started his career in 1922 in the theatre of the Weimar Republic, including the direction of an early production of The Threepenny Opera. He joined UFA (Universum Film AG) in 1934, but left Germany in 1937 because of his political leanings and Jewish wife. On arrival in the United States, he soon changed his German name. By 1942 he was in Hollywood, directing the stridently anti-Nazi Hitler's Madman.

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