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- Birth nameLudwig Gottfried Heinrich Bamberger
- Height5′ 9″ (1.75 m)
- Ludwig Berger was born on January 6, 1892 in Mainz, Hesse [now Rhineland-Palatinate], Germany. He was a director and writer, known for The Thief of Bagdad (1940), Le petit café (1931) and Playboy of Paris (1930). He died on May 18, 1969 in Schlangenbad, Hesse, Germany.
- A doctor of musicology, Berger turned to films as writer/director, initially for Decla-Bioscop and Ufa in the 20's. He moved to Britain after a relatively unsuccessful sojourn in Hollywood, co-directing The Thief of Bagdad (1940) for Alexander Korda. By the mid-50's, he worked mainly on made-for-television movies, before retiring to operate a restaurant in Luxemburg.
- At Decla-Bioscop and later UFA he established a reputation as a leading director of silent films.
- His brother Rudolf Bamberger was a famous production designer and stage designer. He died in 1944/45 in the KZ Auschwitz.
- Berger also translated a few plays of Shakespeare, including Cymbeline, Hamlet, and Timon of Athens.
- The director Ludwig Berger was born as Ludwig Gottfried Heinrich Bamberger into a prosperous family. He early got a musical education and studied German philology and art history later.
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