Otto Lang
Known for
Directing
Born
January 21, 1908
Birthplace
Zenica, Austria-Hungary (modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Died
January 30, 2006 (aged 98)
Biography
Otto Lang (1908 – 2006) was a skier and pioneer ski instructor from Bosnia and Herzegovina, who lived and worked in the United States. After teaching skiing at a variety of smaller resorts in Austria, he joined the Hannes Schneider Ski School in St. Anton am Arlberg, one of the most prestigious ski schools of the era. Like many instructors who taught Schneider's Arlberg Method, Lang was eventually offered a chance to teach in the U.S., at Pecketts' on Sugar Hill in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. He later moved out west and found ski schools on Mount Rainier, Mount Baker and Mount Hood.
He demonstrated ski techniques in Jerome Hill's documentary Ski Flight (1938) which premiered at Ra...
Best known work
Filmography
2002
Cinerama Adventureas Self
1970
Tora! Tora! Tora!Associate Producer
1969
The Gypsy MothsSecond Unit Director
1968
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1964
Open the Door and See all the PeopleProduction Coordinator
1963
The Best of CineramaDirector
1961
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Fury RiverDirector
1960
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