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Austria

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n film director

Film director

A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

. He is especially known for the movies he made based on Edgar Wallace

Edgar Wallace

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was an English crime writer, journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and playwright, who wrote 175 novels, 24 plays, and numerous articles in newspapers and journals....

 and Karl May

Karl May

Karl Friedrich May was a popular German writer, noted mainly for adventure novels set in the American Old West, and similar books set in the Orient and Middle East . In addition, he wrote stories set in his native Germany, in China and in South America...

 books (see Karl May movies

Karl May movies

Karl May films are films based on stories and characters by German author Karl May . The characters Old Shatterhand, Winnetou, and Kara Ben Nemsi are very famous in Central Europe....

 and Edgar Wallace movies).

He started his career as an extra in the mountain-films of Arnold Fanck

Arnold Fanck

Arnold Fanck was a pioneer of the German mountain film....

. Reinl's first movie as director was Bergkristall (1949). He was stabbed to death by his alcoholic wife, the former Czech

Czech Republic

The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

 actress Daniela Maria Delis.

He worked as screenwriter on the 1954 film Tiefland

Tiefland (film)

Tiefland is a 1954 film that Leni Riefenstahl scripted, directed, acted in, and edited. It was produced by Leni Riefenstahl and Josef Plesner. It is based on the opera Tiefland and the original play Terra baixa by Àngel Guimerà...

.

Selected filmography

• Wilde Wasser (1937, short)
• Osterskitour in Tirol (1939)
• Last of the Renegades
  Last of the Renegades
  Last of the Renegades is a 1964 German Western film directed by Harald Reinl and starring Lex Barker.-Cast:* Lex Barker - Old Shatterhand* Pierre Brice - Winnetou* Anthony Steel - Bud Forrester* Karin Dor - Ribanna* Klaus Kinski - David 'Luke' Lucas...
  
  (1964)
• The Desperado Trail (1965)
• In the Valley of Death (1968)
• Death and Diamonds
  Death and Diamonds (film)
  Death and Diamonds Death and Diamonds Death and Diamonds (German: Dynamit in grüner Seide is a 1968 German thriller film directed by Harald Reinl and starring George Nader, Carl Möhner and Heinz Weiss. It was part of the Jerry Cotton series of films about an FBI agent. Cotton tackles diamond...
  
  (1968)
• Death in the Red Jaguar
  Death in the Red Jaguar
  Death in the Red Jaguar is a 1968 German thriller film directed by Harald Reinl and starring George Nader, Heinz Weiss and Daniela Surina. It was part of the Jerry Cotton series of films. The FBI agent tackles an organisation of assassins who kill to order.-Cast:* George Nader ... Jerry Cotton*...
  
  (1968)
• Pepe, der Paukerschreck (1969)
• Dr. Fabian: Laughing Is the Best Medicine
  Dr. Fabian: Laughing Is the Best Medicine
  Dr. Fabian: Laughing Is the Best Medicine is a 1969 West German film directed by Harald Reinl.- Cast :*Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff as Dr. med. Paul Fabian...
  
  (1969)
• Dead Body on Broadway
  Dead Body on Broadway
  Dead Body on Broadway is a 1969 German thriller film directed by Harald Reinl and starring George Nader, Heinz Weiss and Heidy Bohlen. It was part of the series of films portraying FBI agent Jerry Cotton. Cotton is called in to investigate a crime on Broadway.-Cast:* George Nader ... Jerry...
  
  (1969)
• Wir hau'n die Pauker in die Pfanne (1970)
• Chariots of the Gods
  Chariots of the Gods (film)
  Chariots of the Gods is a 1970 West German documentary film directed by Harald Reinl. It is based on Erich von Däniken's book Chariots of the Gods?, a book that theorizes extraterrestrials impacted early human life...
  
  (1970)
• Tiger Gang
  Tiger Gang
  The Tiger Gang is a 1971 movie directed by Harald Reinl, also known by its German title, Kommissar X jagt die roten Tiger.The Tiger Gang was an early international Lollywood film, but was a critical failure....
  
  (1971)
• Verliebte Ferien in Tirol (1971)
• Sie liebten sich einen Sommer (1972)
• Der Schrei der schwarzen Wölfe (1972)
• The Heath is Green
  The Heath Is Green (1972 film)
  The Heath is Green is a 1972 German drama film directed by Harald Reinl and starring Roy Black, Monika Lundi and Peter Millowitsch. Three friends take their holiday on a romote house in the middle of a heath, but soon grow bored of it and go out looking for excitement. It is a remake of the 1951...
  
  (1972)
• Hell Hounds of Alaska (1973)
• No Gold for a Dead Diver (1974)
• The Last of the Mohicans
  The Last of the Mohicans
  The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 is a historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper, first published in February 1826. It is the second book of the Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy and the best known...
  
  

External links

• Harald Reinl - Biography on (re)Search my Trash