F. W. Murnau
Directing · Director · Screenplay · Producer
Born Dec 28, 1888 · Bielefeld, North-Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Active 1920–1931
Friedrich Wilhelm “F. W.” Murnau (December 28, 1888 – March 11, 1931) was one of the most influential German film directors of the silent era, and a prominent figure in the expressionist movement in German cinema during the 1920s.
Filmography
Nosferatu (1922) — DirectorSunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) — Dancer (uncredited) · DirectorFaust (1926) — DirectorThe Last Laugh (1924) — DirectorTabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931) — Director · Screenplay · ProducerCity Girl (1930) — DirectorTartuffe (1926) — DirectorPhantom (1922) — DirectorThe Haunted Castle (1921) — DirectorThe Finances of the Grand Duke (1924) — DirectorThe Expulsion (1923) — DirectorEvening – Night – Morning (1920) — DirectorThe Burning Soil (1922) — DirectorThe Head of Janus (1920) — DirectorJourney into the Night (1921) — Director4 Devils (1928) — DirectorDesire: The Tragedy of a Dancer (1921) — DirectorThe Boy in Blue (1921) — DirectorComedy of the Heart (1924) — WriterSatan (1920) — DirectorThe Hunchback and the Dancer (1920) — DirectorMarizza (1922) — DirectorHunting in the South Seas (1940) — DirectorSynthwave Horror: Nosferatu (2023) — Director