Lajos Lázár (December 2, 1885 – June 2, 1936) was a Hungarian

film director A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...

and producer active during the silent and early

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.Bolton & Wright p.53 He was born in Nagybánya (now Baia Mare), then in

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and now in

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Selected filmography

* '' Drótostót'' (1918) * '' Prisoner Number Seven'' (1929) * '' The Blue Idol'' (1931) * '' The Ghost Train'' (1933)

References

Bibliography

*''Bolton, Lucy & Wright Julie Lobalzo (ed.) Lasting Screen Stars: Images that Fade and Personas that Endure''. Springer, 2016. * Cunningham, John. ''Hungarian Cinema: From Coffee House to Multiplex''. Wallflower Press, 2004.

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* 1885 births 1936 deaths Hungarian film producers Hungarian film directors People from Baia Mare {{Hungary-film-director-stub