Lajos Biró

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Lajos Biró (born Lajos Blau) (August 22, 1880 – September 9, 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. He died in London at the age of 68.

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.

[edit] Partial filmography

Forbidden Paradise (1924) (play) The Way of All Flesh (1927) The Last Command (1928) (story) Michael and Mary (1931) The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) Catherine the Great (1934) (play) The Private Life of Don Juan (1934) The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) Sanders of the River (1935) Rembrandt (1936)

The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936) Dark Journey (1937) Knight Without Armour (1937) The Divorce of Lady X (1938) The Drum (1938) The Four Feathers (1939) The Thief of Bagdad (1940) Five Graves to Cairo (1943) (play) A Royal Scandal (1945) (play) An Ideal Husband (1947)

[edit] External links

• Lajos Biró at the Internet Movie Database
• Lajos Biró biography and filmography at the British Film Institute's Screenonline

• Ben Hecht at the Internet Movie Database