Ernst Lubitsch
Ernst Lubitsch (January 29, 1892 – November 30, 1947) was a German film director, producer, writer, and actor. His urbane comedies of manners gave him the reputation of being Hollywood's most elegant and sophisticated director; as his prestige grew, his films were promoted as having "the Lubitsch touch". Lubitsch is best known for screwball comedies and romantic comedies, such as Trouble in Paradise (1932), Ninotchka (1939), The Shop Around the Corner (1940) and To Be or Not to Be (1942). While being escapist, his films often offer social commentary on human relationships and society in a satirical way. Andrew Sarris in his influential book of film criticism The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929–1968 included him in the "pantheon" of the 14 greatest film directors who had worked in the United States.
73 directing credits · 40 acting credits
Directing · 73
The Shop Around the Corner
1940
Ninotchka
1939
To Be or Not to Be
1942
Trouble in Paradise
1932
Heaven Can Wait
1943
If I Had a Million
1932
The Merry Widow
1934
That Lady in Ermine
1948
Angel
1937
That Uncertain Feeling
1941
Sumurun
1920
The Love Parade
1929
Design for Living
1933
Broken Lullaby
1932
Bluebeard's 8th Wife
1938
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
1928
Cluny Brown
1946
The Patriot
1928
Intoxication
1919
The Doll
1919
One Hour with You
1932
Monte Carlo
1930
I Don't Want to Be a Man
1918
Anna Boleyn
1920
So This Is Paris
1926
Madame DuBarry
1919
The Smiling Lieutenant
1931
The Oyster Princess
1919
Forbidden Paradise
1924
Carmen
1918
The Marriage Circle
1924
Three Women
1924
Romeo and Juliet in the Snow
1920
Rosita
1923
Lady Windermere's Fan
1925
The Wildcat
1921
The Eyes of the Mummy
1918
The Honeymoon Express
1926
Eternal Love
1929
Paramount on Parade
1930
Pinkus's Shoe Palace
1916
Die Flamme
1923
Meyer from Berlin
1919
Prinz Sami
1918
Kohlhiesel's Daughters
1920
Where Is My Treasure?
1916
Fuhrmann Henschel
1918
The Loves of Pharaoh
1922
Ossis Tagebuch
1917
Screen Tests for Faust
1923
The Rosentopf Case
1918
The Ballet Girl
1918
The Housing Shortage
1920
The Clerk
1933
The Toboggan Cavalier
1918
The Merry Jail
1917
Der Blusenkönig
1917
Sugar and Cinnamon
1915
My Wife, the Movie Star
1919
The Swabian Maiden
1919
Blind Cow
1915
Miss Soapsuds
1915
The Bodybuilder
1915
The New Nose
1916
The Most Beautiful Gift
1916
When Four Do the Same
1917
Kiss Me Again
1925
His Only Patient
1915
The Tenor, Inc.
1916
The Mixed Ladies Chorus
1916
The Last Suit
1915
Käsekönig Holländer
1919
A Trip on the Ice
1915
Acting · 40
Ninotchka
1939
Hitler: A Career
1977
The Eternal Jew
1940
Sumurun
1920
100 Years of the UFA
2017
The Doll
1919
From Caligari to Hitler
2015
Mr. Broadway
1933
The Pride of the Firm
1914
A Venetian Night
1914
The Miracle
1912
Pinkus's Shoe Palace
1916
Meyer from Berlin
1919
Prinz Sami
1918
Where Is My Treasure?
1916
Hans Trutz in the Land of Milk and Honey
1917
Robert and Bertram
1915
The Rosentopf Case
1918
The Toboggan Cavalier
1918
Der Blusenkönig
1917
The Ideal Wife
1913
Sugar and Cinnamon
1915
Blind Cow
1915
Arme Maria
1915
Miss Soapsuds
1915
The Firm Gets Married
1914
The Bodybuilder
1915
The New Nose
1916
The Most Beautiful Gift
1916
When Four Do the Same
1917
Doctor Satanson
1916
His Only Patient
1915
The Tenor, Inc.
1916
The Mixed Ladies Chorus
1916
How I Was Murdered
1915
The Last Suit
1915
Käsekönig Holländer
1919
Das Mirakel
1912
Miss Bellboy
1915
A Trip on the Ice
1915