Hans Jacoby

Hans Jacoby
Born	23 October 1904 Breslau, Silesia German Empire
Died	31 October 1963 Zurich, Switzerland
Occupation	Screenwriter Art director
Years active	1921-1963

Hans Jacoby (1904–1963) was a German screenwriter and art director. Jacoby worked designing film sets during the Weimar Era, and from the late 1920s began contributing scripts as well. Jacoby was of Jewish background^[1] and was forced to go into exile when the Nazi Party took power in 1933. Jacoby settled in the United States for many years, working on the screenplays of a number of Hollywood productions. He returned to Germany in the mid-1950s, and worked in the West German film industry until his death.

Selected filmography

Art director

• Dämon Zirkus (1923)
• The Other Woman (1924)
• The Woman Who Did (1925)
• Vienna - Berlin (1926)
• Svengali (1927)
• Queen Louise (1927)
• Heimweh (1927)
• The Bordellos of Algiers (1927)
• The Schorrsiegel Affair (1928)
• Miss Chauffeur (1928)
• Misled Youth (1929)
• The Right of the Unborn (1929)
• Fight of the Tertia (1929)
• The Woman in the Advocate's Gown (1929)
• Gold on the Street (1930)
• Three Days of Love (1931)
• The Big Attraction (1931)
• Girls to Marry (1932)

Screenwriter

• The Land of Smiles (1930)
• There Goes Susie (1934)
• I Was an Adventuress (1938)
• Gibraltar (1938)
• Princess Tarakanova (1938)
• Without Tomorrow (1940)
• Night in December (1940)
• I Was an Adventuress (1940)
• Between Us Girls (1942)
• The Amazing Mrs. Holliday (1943)
• Phantom of the Opera (1943)
• Tars and Spars (1946)
• Champagne for Caesar (1950)
• Tarzan and the Slave Girl (1950)
• Sirocco (1951)
• Reunion in Reno (1951)
• Tarzan's Savage Fury (1952)
• Taxi (1953)
• Carnival Story (1954)
• Stranger from Venus (1954)
• Vater sein dagegen sehr (1957)
• The Mad Bomberg (1957)
• Eva (1958)
• It Happened in Broad Daylight (1958)
• The Man Who Walked Through the Wall (1959)
• Menschen im Hotel (1959)
• The Black Sheep (1960)
• The Good Soldier Schweik (1960)
• The Liar (1961)

References

1. Prawer p.212

Bibliography

• Prawer, S.S. Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910–1933. Berghahn Books, 2005.

External links

• Hans Jacoby at the Internet Movie Database