Max Mack

Max Mack
Born	2 October 1884 Halberstadt, Saxony-Anhalt, German Empire
Died	18 February 1973 (aged 88) London, England United Kingdom
Other names	Moritz Myrthenzweig
Occupation(s)	screenwriter, actor, producer, director
Years active	1910 - 1935

Max Mack (1884–1973) was a German screenwriter, film producer and director during the Silent era. He is particularly known for his 1913 film The Other. During the 1910s he directed nearly a hundred of films in a variety of different genres.

Born as Moritz Myrthenzweig in Halberstadt, the Jewish Mack later forced to emigrate to escape Nazism, and settled in the United Kingdom. His final film was the 1935 quota quickie Be Careful, Mr. Smith.

Selected filmography

• The Other (1913)
• The Blue Mouse (1913)
• Where Is Coletti? (1913)
• Robert and Bertram (1915)
• Quarantäne (1923)
• The Beautiful Girl (1923)
• Father Voss (1925)
• The Uninvited Guest (1925)
• The Girl with a Patron (1925)
• The Wooing of Eve (1926)
• Fight of the Tertia (1929)
• Only on the Rhine (1930)
• A Thousand for One Night (1933)
• Be Careful, Mr. Smith (1935)

Bibliography

• Elsaesser, Thomas & Wedel, Michael. A Second Life: German Cinema's First Decades. Amsterdam University Press, 1996.
• Ragowski, Christian. The Many Faces of Weimar Cinema: Rediscovering Germany's Filmic Legacy. Camden House, 2010.

External links

• Max Mack at IMDb