Andrew Marton
Hungarian-American film director (1904-1992)
Andrew Marton (born Endre Marton; 26 January 1904 – 7 January 1992) was a Hungarian-American film director. In his career, he directed 39 films and television programmes, and worked on 16 as a second unit director, including the chariot race in Ben Hur (1959).
Life and career
Marton was born in Budapest, Hungary. After high-school graduation in 1922, he was taken by Alfréd Deésy to Vienna to work at Sascha-Film, mostly as an assistant editor. After a few months, he caught the attention of director Ernst Lubitsch, who convinced him to try Hollywood. Marton returned to Europe in 1927 and worked as the main editor of the Tobis company in Berlin, and later as an assistant director in Vienna. He directed his Two O'Clock in the Morning, " his first feature film, in 1929 in Great Britain. He joined a German expedition to Tibet in 1934, where he filmed Demon of the Himalayas. Marton cited that he was Jewish as a reason that the film could not be released with his name as director, citing a conversation he had had with Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels.
After returning to Hungary, he directed his only Hungarian movie in 1935 in Budapest.
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