Walter Reisch

Birth Name:

Walter Reisch

Birth Place:

Vienna, Austria

Profession

Writer, Soundtrack, Director, Producer, Music department

Studied literature at the University of Vienna
After making a name for himself in London, he would accept an offer by Louis B․ Mayer with MGM and come to the United States in 1938
Began his career in 1918 as a title writer before befriending filmmaker Stephan Lorant who promoted him to assistant director for 1921's "Die Narrenkappe der Liebe"
One of several employees at 20th Century Fox that was let go following the Screen Writer's Guild strike of 1959
Worked briefly in Berlin before returning to his native Austria to work under contract for Germany's biggest film studio at the time, Ufa
Was forced to flee Vienna in the mid 1930s which was quickly becoming a Nazi stronghold, traveling to London by 1936

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