E.A. Dupont

Directing

E.A. Dupont

Born — Died

1891-12-25 — 1956-12-12

Place of birth

Zeitz - Germany

Known for

Directing

Credits

41 titles

Ewald André Dupont (25 December 1891, Zeitz, Saxony, Germany – 12 December 1956, Hollywood) was a German film director, one of the founders of the German film industry. He was frequently credited as E. A. Dupont. A newspaper columnist in 1916, Dupont became a screenwriter and began directing his own crime-story scripts in 1918. After several successes in his native Germany in silent films, he worked in London and in Hollywood, California. One of his greatest successes was the silent film Varieté (1925). This film, about an ex-trapeze artist, was noted for its innovative camerawork with highly expressive movement through space, accomplished by the prolific expressionist cinematographer Karl …

Known for

Film credits

Behind the camera

Magic Fire poster
5.0

In the middle of the 19th-century, when the social structure of Europe is about to be reshaped, the world of music is shaken by one man: Richard Wagner.

Magic Fire

1955

Piccadilly poster
6.5

A young Chinese woman, working in the kitchen at a London dance club, is given the chance to become the club's main act.

Piccadilly

1929

Piccadilly poster
6.5

A young Chinese woman, working in the kitchen at a London dance club, is given the chance to become the club's main act.

Piccadilly

1929

The Steel Lady poster
6.6

Surviving a plane crash in the Sahara, four oilmen find and manage to repair a German Afrika Corps tank which had been buried in the sand since WWII.

The Steel Lady

1953

Mitternacht poster
8.0

Attorney General Trevor's second wife is found stabbed to death in his safe. Due to a ring with the initials DG, which is also found in the safe, the suspicion initially falls on Donald Gordon, the fiancé of Trevor's daughter.

Mitternacht

1918

Mitternacht poster
8.0

Attorney General Trevor's second wife is found stabbed to death in his safe. Due to a ring with the initials DG, which is also found in the safe, the suspicion initially falls on Donald Gordon, the fiancé of Trevor's daughter.

Mitternacht

1918

Hell's Kitchen poster
6.8

A paroled convict's efforts to improve conditions at a boys' reform school alarm the school's corrupt warden, who has been embezzling funds from the institution. He hatches a plan to derail the reformed convict's efforts and have him sent back to prison, and part of that scheme involves cracking down hard on the reform school's inmates.

Hell's Kitchen

1939

Love Me and the World Is Mine poster
10.0

In Old Vienna in the days prior to The Great War, a beautiful woman, Hannerl, has her choice of two men; the first is a dashing young army officer who can provide blazing romance and little long-time security. The other is an older man, influential in the affairs of Austria, who could provide wealth...and tender devotion. Hannerl thinks about it.

Love Me and the World Is Mine

1927

Love Me and the World Is Mine poster
10.0

In Old Vienna in the days prior to The Great War, a beautiful woman, Hannerl, has her choice of two men; the first is a dashing young army officer who can provide blazing romance and little long-time security. The other is an older man, influential in the affairs of Austria, who could provide wealth...and tender devotion. Hannerl thinks about it.

Love Me and the World Is Mine

1927

The Scarf poster
5.7

A man who is believed to have murdered a woman, escapes from the insane asylum to find if he was the one to actually kill her using the scarf she was wearing.

The Scarf

1951

The Scarf poster
5.7

A man who is believed to have murdered a woman, escapes from the insane asylum to find if he was the one to actually kill her using the scarf she was wearing.

The Scarf

1951

The Secret of the American Docks poster
7.2

James Mistoll, one of the owners of a factory, and working on a process to turn copper ore into radium, falls from a window on the fourth floor and dies; This was no accident, but a murder. A detective sends his assistant, Barnes, to investigate and soon the number of suspects from within the company multiplies.

The Secret of the American Docks

1919

The Secret of the American Docks poster
7.2

James Mistoll, one of the owners of a factory, and working on a process to turn copper ore into radium, falls from a window on the fourth floor and dies; This was no accident, but a murder. A detective sends his assistant, Barnes, to investigate and soon the number of suspects from within the company multiplies.

The Secret of the American Docks

1919

Pictura poster
10.0

A documentary film directed by seven famous directors, and narrated by several famous Hollywood actors. The film attempts to give the general filmgoing public a taste of art history and art appreciation.

Pictura

1951

On Such a Night poster
7.0

When her husband is accused of murder, an actress tries to prove his innocence.

On Such a Night

1937

Two Worlds poster
NR

German language version of Two Worlds.

Two Worlds

1930

Night of Mystery poster
10.0

Philo Vance investigates a series of murders among members of the wealthy Greene family.

Night of Mystery

1937

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hearts Are Trumps

1920

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Rennfieber

1918

Trapeze poster
10.0

Robby and Jim are two friends working in a circus. When Marina, a new acrobat, enters the show, both men will compete for her love. She needs a partner for a flying number, and one of them will be elected. Then accidents will happen.

Trapeze

1931

The Neanderthal Man poster
4.3

A scientist develops a formula which will cause animals to regress to the form of their primitive ancestors, and tries it on himself with disastrous results.

The Neanderthal Man

1953

Atlantik poster
7.3

German-language version. "Atlantic" is a drama film based on the sinking of the RMS "Titanic" and set aboard a fictional ship, called the "Atlantic". The main plotline revolves around a man who has a shipboard affair with a fellow passenger, which is eventually discovered by his wife. The ship also has aboard an elderly couple, Heinrich and Anna Thomas, who are on their anniversary cruise. Midway across the Atlantic Ocean, the "Atlantic" strikes an iceberg and is damaged to the point where it is sinking into the Atlantic. The German version was filmed at the same time as the British version, with each scene first being filmed in English for the British version, then the same scene being filmed in German by a German cast, using the same sets.

Atlantik

1929

Atlantik poster
7.3

German-language version. "Atlantic" is a drama film based on the sinking of the RMS "Titanic" and set aboard a fictional ship, called the "Atlantic". The main plotline revolves around a man who has a shipboard affair with a fellow passenger, which is eventually discovered by his wife. The ship also has aboard an elderly couple, Heinrich and Anna Thomas, who are on their anniversary cruise. Midway across the Atlantic Ocean, the "Atlantic" strikes an iceberg and is damaged to the point where it is sinking into the Atlantic. The German version was filmed at the same time as the British version, with each scene first being filmed in English for the British version, then the same scene being filmed in German by a German cast, using the same sets.

Atlantik

1929

Moulin Rouge poster
6.5

An odd and tightly directed tale of a singer/dancer at the Moulin Rouge, who meets her daughter's fiance, only to have him fall obsessively in love with her and she with him. Alienation, betrayal and near tragedy result.

Moulin Rouge

1928

Moulin Rouge poster
6.5

An odd and tightly directed tale of a singer/dancer at the Moulin Rouge, who meets her daughter's fiance, only to have him fall obsessively in love with her and she with him. Alienation, betrayal and near tragedy result.

Moulin Rouge

1928

Moulin Rouge poster
6.5

An odd and tightly directed tale of a singer/dancer at the Moulin Rouge, who meets her daughter's fiance, only to have him fall obsessively in love with her and she with him. Alienation, betrayal and near tragedy result.

Moulin Rouge

1928

Atlantic poster
6.5

A heavily fictionalized version of the RMS Titanic story.

Atlantic

1930

Children of Darkness - 1. The Man from Naples poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Children of Darkness - 1. The Man from Naples

1921

Children of Darkness - 1. The Man from Naples poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Children of Darkness - 1. The Man from Naples

1921

Two Worlds poster
10.0

An old Jewish man is forced to hide the Austrian lieutenant who killed his son and loves his daughter.

Two Worlds

1930

Two Worlds poster
10.0

An old Jewish man is forced to hide the Austrian lieutenant who killed his son and loves his daughter.

Two Worlds

1930

Variety poster
6.7

Murderer “Boss” Huller—after having spent ten years in prison—breaks his silence to tell the warden his story.

Variety

1925

Variety poster
6.7

Murderer “Boss” Huller—after having spent ten years in prison—breaks his silence to tell the warden his story.

Variety

1925

Children of Darkness - 2. Fighting Worlds poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Children of Darkness - 2. Fighting Worlds

1922

Children of Darkness - 2. Fighting Worlds poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Children of Darkness - 2. Fighting Worlds

1922

Return to Treasure Island poster
5.6

Jamie, a descendant of Jim Hawkins, teams up with Clive, a scholar of pirate lore, on present-day Treasure Island where villainous rivals seek her priceless map.

Return to Treasure Island

1954

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Würger der Welt

1920

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Würger der Welt

1920

A Son Comes Home poster
4.0

A mother experiences the torment of discovering that her own son is a killer.

A Son Comes Home

1936

Alcohol poster
8.0

A middle-class man falls in love with a woman from a more ordinary background, and they end up working in a variety act where they sink into alcoholism. He then kills another man whom he mistakenly believes is a rival.

Alcohol

1920