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Also Known As Wilhelm Dieterle
Born July 15, 1893 • Ludwigshafen • Germany
Died December 8, 1972 (aged 79) • Germany
Notable Works “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” • “Blockade” • “Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet” • “Elephant Walk” • “Fashions of 1934” • “Fog over Frisco” • “I’ll Be Seeing You” • “Juarez” • “Kismet” • “Love Letters” • “Portrait of Jennie” • “Red Mountain” • “Rope of Sand” • “Salome” • “Satan Met a Lady” • “September Affair” • “The Accused” • “The Devil and Daniel Webster” • “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” • “The Last Flight” • “The Life of Emile Zola” • “The Story of Louis Pasteur”

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