All All. Sign In. Advanced search. Search filters Expand all. Birth date. Enter full date. Page topics. Only includes names with the selected topics. Death date. Gender identity. Male Female Non-binary Other. Adult names. Exclude Include. Sam Spiegel. Born in Germany he went to America some time before the second World War and spent a year in Hollywood reading foreign scripts after which he returned to Berlin where he set up his own company to organise the remaking of foreign films into German language versions.
One he handled was 'All Quiet on the Western Front', an anti war film that became a kind of personal crusade for him. On the opening night the Nazi's, then in power, put a bomb in the cinema. When the Nazis came into power he left Germany and divided his time between Britain, France and America. He changed his name to the more international sounding S.
Eagle but changed it back when with 'On the Waterfront' he realised he'd made a film to which any man would be proud to put his name. Max Glass. Writer Producer Director Le chemin de Damas Max, the youngest of 5 children, arrived as a young boy in Vienna with his parents, Hersh Mendel, a Talmud scholar and jeweler, and his mother Rachel - known as Rosa Wachsmann, whose parents were from Krakow.
He obtained in a Ph. Like Max, she was a Doctor in philosophy. The couple had two sons, Paul, born on May 18, and George s , born on October 19th, Only about 5. He also wrote and had several novels published. After the Second World War, he moved to Berlin where he devoted himself to script writing, to directing and producing films.
Berlin was the "Mecca" for Austrians whose intellectuals suffered from an inferiority complex, exemplified by a passage in a letter written in by Arthur Schnitzler to his sister-in-law " Max Glass rapidly entered production himself and rose to the head of the "Terra Film". According to German journalist Georg Fuchs, "Terra Film" owed its rise to international recognition to Max Glass, sometimes nicknamed "the Dictator of Cinema" because of his iron will.
