John Brahm

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John Brahm (August 17, 1893 - October 12, 1982) was a film and television director possibly best known today for directing a dozen of the original Twilight Zone episodes including the now classic "Time Enough at Last". His films include The Lodger (1944), Hangover Square (1945), the film noir The Locket (1946) with Laraine Day, Robert Mitchum, and Brian Aherne, and the Secret Sharer segment of Face to Face. He also directed the 3D horror film The Mad Magician 1954 with Vincent Price and Mary Murphy. Brahm was born in Hamburg, Germany. He moved to America in 1937 after working in England. The German director started in the U.S. at Columbia Pictures and eventually moved to 20th Century-Fox.

In his book, The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929-1968, American film historian and critic Andrew Sarris states that Brahm "hit his stride" in the 1930's with "mood drenched melodramas", suggesting that Brahm went into artistic decline after this period. Nevertheless, Sarris further notes that Brahm did not lack work, as he made over 100 "television films" during a the 1950s and 1960s.

[edit] External links

• John Brahm at the Internet Movie Database
• New York Times site on John Brahm and his films
• A tribute to John Brahm created by his daughter Sumishta Brahm