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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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100% 71% The Spy in Black
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100% 67% 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% 90% The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
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97% 93% A Matter of Life and Death
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93% 79% A Canterbury Tale
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88% 76% 49th Parallel
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The Boy Who Turned Yellow 22% 1972 Producer, Writer They're a Weird Mob 57% 1966 Screenwriter Operation Crossbow 75% 54% 1965 Screenwriter Night Ambush 46% 1958 Director Pursuit of the Graf Spee 82% 70% 1956 Director, Writer, Producer Oh... Rosalinda!! 60% 1955 Director, Screenwriter, Producer Twice Upon a Time 1953 Director, Screenwriter, Producer The Tales of Hoffmann 85% 70% 1951 Director, Producer Gone to Earth 79% 1950 Director, Screenwriter, Producer The Elusive Pimpernel 83% 1950 Director The Small Back Room 92% 72% 1949 Director, Producer The Red Shoes 98% 91% 1948 Director, Writer, Producer Black Narcissus 100% 87% 1947 Director, Producer, Screenwriter A Matter of Life and Death 97% 93% 1946 Director, Writer, Producer I Know Where I'm Going! 100% 82% 1945 Director, Writer, Producer A Canterbury Tale 93% 79% 1944 Director, Writer The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 97% 90% 1943 Director, Writer, Producer The Silver Fleet 43% 1943 Producer One of Our Aircraft Is Missing 100% 67% 1942 Director, Producer 49th Parallel 88% 76% 1941 Writer The Spy in Black 100% 71% 1939 Writer Farewell 1930 Screenwriter
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