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Emeric Pressburger

Highest Rated: 100% The Spy in Black (1939)

Lowest Rated: 75% Operation Crossbow (1965)

Birthday: Dec 5, 1902

Birthplace: Miskolc, Austria-Hungary

Began his career writing screenplays in both Germany and France, notably for directors Robert Siodmak and Max Ophuls, before arriving in England in 1936. Pressburger contributed to several Alexander Korda projects before collaborating with director Michael Powell for the first time on the entertaining, intelligently convoluted thriller, "The Spy in Black" (1939).

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Highest rated movies

100% 71% The Spy in Black
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100% 66% One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
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100% 82% I Know Where I'm Going!
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100% 87% Black Narcissus
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98% 91% The Red Shoes
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97% 93% A Matter of Life and Death
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97% 90% The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
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93% 79% A Canterbury Tale
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92% 73% The Small Back Room Watchlist
88% 76% 49th Parallel
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet 22% The Boy Who Turned Yellow Producer,
Writer
- 1972
No Score Yet 56% They're a Weird Mob Screenwriter - 1966
75% 54% Operation Crossbow Screenwriter - 1965
No Score Yet 46% Night Ambush Director - 1958
82% 70% Pursuit of the Graf Spee Director,
Writer,
Producer
- 1956
No Score Yet 60% Oh... Rosalinda!! Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer
- 1955
No Score Yet No Score Yet Twice Upon a Time Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer
- 1953
85% 70% The Tales of Hoffmann Director,
Producer
$90.4K 1951
No Score Yet 79% Gone to Earth Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer
- 1950
No Score Yet 83% The Elusive Pimpernel Director - 1950
92% 73% The Small Back Room Director,
Producer
$23.9K 1949
98% 91% The Red Shoes Director,
Writer,
Producer
- 1948
100% 87% Black Narcissus Director,
Producer,
Screenwriter
- 1947
97% 93% A Matter of Life and Death Director,
Writer,
Producer
- 1946
100% 82% I Know Where I'm Going! Director,
Writer,
Producer
- 1945
93% 79% A Canterbury Tale Director,
Writer
- 1944
97% 90% The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp Director,
Writer,
Producer
- 1943
No Score Yet 43% The Silver Fleet Producer - 1943
100% 66% One of Our Aircraft Is Missing Director,
Producer
- 1942
88% 76% 49th Parallel Writer - 1941
100% 71% The Spy in Black Writer - 1939
No Score Yet No Score Yet Farewell Screenwriter - 1930