Oscar Werndorff Explained

Oscar Werndorff
Birth Date:	30 May 1880
Birth Place:	Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Death Date:	6 November 1938
Death Place:	Wembley, London United Kingdom
Othername:	Oscar Friedrich Werndorff
Occupation:	Art director
Yearsactive:	1920  - 1938 (film)

Oscar Friedrich Werndorff (1880 - 1938) was an Austrian art director.^[1] After leaving Germany in the early 1930s he moved to Britain where he worked in the British film industry. He co-directed the 1931 film The Bells.^[2]

Selected filmography

Art director

• The Count of Cagliostro (1920)
• The Story of a Maid (1921)
• Money in the Streets (1922)
• The Daughter of the Brigadier (1922)
• The Slipper Hero (1923)
• The Three Marys (1923)
• The Wonderful Adventure (1924)
• Carlos and Elisabeth (1924)
• Man Against Man (1924)
• Unmarried Daughters (1926)
• Nanette Makes Everything (1926)
• A Modern Dubarry (1927)
• Always Be True and Faithful (1927)
• Heaven on Earth (1927)
• Odette (1928)
• Dyckerpotts' Heirs (1928)
• The Singing City (1930)
• The First Mrs. Fraser (1932)
• The Camels Are Coming (1934)
• Forbidden Territory (1934)
• Heat Wave (1935)
• Fighting Stock (1935)
• Pagliacci (1936)
• Rhodes of Africa (1936)
• For Valour (1937)
• The Lilac Domino (1937)
• Under Secret Orders (1937)
• Keep Smiling (1938)
• The Ware Case (1938)
• Let's Be Famous (1939)

References

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20090115081303/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/11962 BFI.org
2. Bergfelder & Cargnelli p.78

Bibliography

• Bergfelder, Tim & Cargnelli, Christian. Destination London: German-speaking emigrés and British cinema, 1925-1950. Berghahn Books, 2008.