Fritz Lang (1890–1976) was an Austrian film director, producer and screenwriter. In Lang's early career he worked primarily as a screenwriter, finishing film scripts in four to five days.[1] Lang directed major German films of the silent and early sound eras including Metropolis (1927) and M (1931) respectively.[2] [3] After fleeing from the Nazi regime, Lang directed some of the most important American crime and film noir motion pictures of the studio era, such as The Big Heat (1953). Lang appeared as himself in Jean-Luc Godard's Contempt (Le Mepris, 1963).
| Year | Film | Functioned as | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Writer | Actor | Other | ||||
| 1916 | ||||||
| 1917 | Wedding in the Eccentric Club | |||||
| Hilde Warren und der Tod | ||||||
| 1918 | Lilith und Ly | |||||
| 1919 | Revenge Is Mine | |||||
| Bettler GmbH | ||||||
| Wolkenbau und Flimmerstern | ||||||
| The Woman with Orchids | ||||||
| The Dance of Death | Lost film | |||||
| The Plague of Florence | ||||||
| 1920 | The Mistress of the World | |||||
| 1921 | The Indian Tomb | |||||
| 1942 | Moontide | Lang left early in shooting, film direction is credited to Archie Mayo | ||||
| 1963 | Contempt | Lang plays himself | ||||