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Lajos Biró

Writer, Additional Credits
Born August 22, 1880Died September 9, 1948 (68 years)
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Lajos Bíró (born Lajos Blau) (22 August 1880 – 9 September 1948) was a Hungarian novelist, playwright, and screenwriter who wrote many films from the early 1920s through the late 1940s. He was born in Nagyvárad, Austria-Hungary (now Oradea, Romania) and eventually moved to the United Kingdom where he worked as a scenario chief for London Film Productions run by Alexander Korda, collaborating on many screenplays with Arthur Wimperis. He died in London on 9 September 1948 of a heart attack. He is buried in the northern section of Hampstead Cemetery in north London.

In 1929, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Writing for The Last Command, but lost to Ben Hecht for Underworld, the only other nomination in this category.

Known For

  • The Thief of Bagdad
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel
  • The Four Feathers
  • The Last Command
  • The Private Life of Henry VIII
  • Five Graves to Cairo
  • The Man Who Could Work Miracles
  • The Drum
  • Elephant Boy
  • An Ideal Husband
  • The Private Life of Don Juan
  • The Rise of Catherine the Great
  • Dark Journey
  • Rembrandt
  • A Royal Scandal
  • Sanders of the River
  • Knight Without Armor
  • The Divorce of Lady X
  • Storm Over the Nile
  • The Way of All Flesh
  • Over the Moon
  • The Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel
  • Under the Red Robe
  • Forbidden Paradise

Filmography

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