József Bécsi Explained

József Bécsi
Birth Date:	7 February 1884
Birth Place:	Mosonszentmiklós, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Death Date:	19 February 1947 (aged 63)
Death Place:	Budapest, Hungary
Occupation:	Cinematographer
Yearsactive:	1908–1942 (film)

József Bécsi (1884–1947) was a Hungarian cinematographer, particularly active during the silent era.^{[1] [2]} He worked on many of the early films of director Michael Curtiz.

Selected filmography

• The Last Bohemian (1912)
• My Husband's Getting Married (1913)
• Bánk Bán (1914)
• The Borrowed Babies (1915)
• The Wolf (1916)
• Seven of Spades (1916)
• The Medic (1916)
• Nobody's Son (1917)
• The Red Samson (1917)
• The Charlatan (1917)
• The Last Dawn (1917)
• Confessions of a Monk (1922)
• The Dead Wedding Guest (1922)
• The Tales of Hoffmann (1923)
• A Waltz by Strauss (1925)
• Prisoner Number Seven (1929)
• The Empress and the Hussar (1935)
• I Can't Live Without Music (1935)
• The Lady Is a Bit Cracked (1938)

Bibliography

• Burns, Bryan. World Cinema: Hungary. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1996.
• Cunningham, John. Hungarian Cinema: From Coffee House to Multiplex. Wallflower Press, 2004.
• Rode, Alan K. Michael Curtiz: A Life in Film. University Press of Kentucky, 2017.

Notes and References

1. Cunningham p.7
2. Burns p.1