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Paul Fejos. Pál Fejős (24 January 1897 – 23 April 1963), known professionally as Paul Fejos, was a Hungarian-American director of feature films and documentaries who worked in a number of countries including the United States. He also studied medicine in his youth and became a prominent anthropologist later in life.
Pál Fejős, known professionally as Paul Fejos, was a Hungarian-American director of feature films and documentaries who worked in a number of countries including the United States. He also studied medicine in his youth and became a prominent anthropologist later in life.
PAUL FEJOs became Director of Research of the newly- created Viking Fund in 1941. He died on April 23, 1963, as President and Director of Research of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Re-search-the new name for the organization of which, in a literal as well as a symbolic sense, he was the. ''only begetter."
A buried treasure from Hollywood’s golden age, Lonesome is the creation of a little-known but audacious and one-of-a-kind filmmaker, Paul Fejos (also an explorer, anthropologist, and doctor!).
- Mary
Pál Fejös. Director: The Last Moment. Budapest-born director Paul Fejos first called attention to himself in Kecskemét, Hungary, as a student actor. During World War I he was a soldier in the army of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and after the war he became a student of chemistry.
- January 24, 1897
- April 23, 1963
FEJÖS, Paul. Nationality: Hungarian. Born: Pál Fejös in Budapest, 24 January 1897; became U.S. citizen, 1930. Education: school in Veszprem and at Kecskemet; studied medicine. Military Service: Served on Italian front, organized plays for soldiers, 1914–18.
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PAUL FEJOS rected half a dozen feature length films between 1920 and 1923, all of them now irrevocably lost. (Two other prominent Hungarian directors at this time were Alexander Korda and Michael Curtiz.) In 1923 he left Hungary for America, for a combi-nation of reasons, among them a distaste for the reactionary government that had replaced ...
