Günther Stapenhorst(1883-1976)
- Producer
- Production Manager
- Editor
Originally an export salesman he began to work in film business in
1924. In 1928 he was given commission by the Ufa to build another
production group besides the one of Erich Pommer. After his last Ufa
production Amphitryon (1935) he emigrated to the UK in 1935 where he worked with
cinematographer Sepp Allgeier for Gaumont-British and later joined Alexander Korda's
film production. In 1939 he worked and lived in Switzerland. Between
1941 and 1943 he tried a comeback to the Ufa several times, but he was
disliked in nazi Germany. 1949 he founded the Carlton Film GmbH in
Munich, Germany. For the next ten years he produced films joined by
some of his former colleagues, besides others Josef von Báky and
Georg Wilhelm Pabst.
