
Known for
Directing
Born
December 28, 1888
Birthplace
Bielefeld, North-Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Died
March 11, 1931 (aged 42)
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. Although some of Murnau’s films have been lost, most still survive. While the horror film Nosferatu (1922) is his most famous work, the romantic melodrama Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) is his critically most acclaimed; the British Film Institute's 2012 Sight & Sound critics' poll named it the fifth-best film in the history of motion pictures. Murnau's characteristics are an atmospheric imagery and an innovative use of camera movement. Andrew Sarris in his in...
2023
Director
2016
Thanks
2008
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2003
as Himself (archive footage)
2002
as Himself (archive footage)
1940
Director
1931
Director, Screenplay, Producer
1930
Director
1930
Director
1928
as Self
1928
Director
1927
as Dancer (uncredited), Director
1926
Director
1926
Director
1924
Director
1924
Writer
1924
as Self
1924
Director
1923
Director
1922
Director
1922
Director
1922
Director
1922
Director
1921
Director
1921
Director