Walter Reisch

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| name = Walter Reisch

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1903|5|23}}

| birth_place = Vienna, Cisleithania, Austria-Hungary

| death_date = {{death date and age|1983|3|28|1903|5|23}}

| death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.

| occupation = film director, writer, screenwriter, lyricist

| spouses = Poldi Dur (1937–1983)

| yearsactive = 1925–1959

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Walter Reisch (May 23, 1903 – March 28, 1983) was an Austrian-born director and screenwriter. He also wrote lyrics to several songs featured in his films, one popular title is "Flieger, grüß mir die Sonne".{{discogs artist|Walter+Reisch}} He was married to the dancer and actress Poldi Dur and was the cousin of Georg Kreisler.

Selected filmography

The Curse (1924)
A Waltz by Strauss (1925)
Colonel Redl (1925)
Kissing Is No Sin (1926)
Pratermizzi (1927)
Rhenish Girls and Rhenish Wine (1927)
The Indiscreet Woman (1927)
Carnival Magic (1927)
Darling of the Dragoons (1928)
It's You I Have Loved (1929)
The Merry Widower (1929)
The Woman Everyone Loves Is You (1929)
The Night Belongs to Us (1929)
Prisoner Number Seven (1929)
The Black Domino (1929)
The Hero of Every Girl's Dream (1929)
Black Forest Girl (1929)
The Flute Concert of Sanssouci (1930)
The Song Is Ended (1930)
Never Trust a Woman (1930)
A Gentleman for Hire (1930)
Two Hearts in Waltz Time (1930)
Fire in the Opera House (1930)
Hocuspocus (1930)
Danube Waltz (1930)
The Merry Wives of Vienna (1931)
The Theft of the Mona Lisa (1931)
In the Employ of the Secret Service (1931)
The Prince of Arcadia (1932)
A Blonde Dream (1932)
The Countess of Monte Cristo (1932)
Happy Ever After (1932)
Gently My Songs Entreat (1933)
Season in Cairo (1933)
The Empress and I (1933)
The Only Girl (1933)
Unfinished Symphony (1934)
So Ended a Great Love (1934)
Two Hearts in Waltz Time (1934)
Episode (1935)
The Divine Spark (1935)
The Great Waltz (1938)
Ninotchka (1939)
My Love Came Back (1940)
Comrade X (1940) (story)
That Hamilton Woman (1941)
That Uncertain Feeling (1941)
The Heavenly Body (1944)
Gaslight (1944)
Song of Scheherazade (1947)
The Mating Season (1951)
The Model and the Marriage Broker (1951)
Titanic (1953)
The Mosquito (1954)
Teenage Rebel (1956)
The Cornet (1956)
Just Once a Great Lady (1957)
Stopover Tokyo (1957)
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)

References

External links

{{IMDb name|id=0281556|name=Walter Reisch}}
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[https://www.mediathek.at/nc/type/8000/searchQuery/1604/hash/9OLrLVXu/// Walter Reisch] (in German) from the online-archive of the Österreichischen Mediathek

Category:1903 births

Category:1983 deaths

Category:Film people from Vienna

Category:Best Original Screenplay Academy Award winners

Category:Austrian emigrants to the United States

Category:Austrian film directors

Category:Austrian film producers

Category:Austrian lyricists

Category:Deaths from cancer in California

Category:20th-century Austrian businesspeople

Category:20th-century Austrian male writers

Category:20th-century Austrian screenwriters

Category:20th-century American screenwriters