Karl Löb

Karl Löb
Born	15 March 1910 Teplice, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Died	20 January 1983 (1983-01-21) (aged 72) West Berlin, West Germany
Occupation	Cinematographer
Years active	1931-1974

Karl Löb (1910–1983) was an Austrian-born cinematographer. He worked on over ninety films in Austria and Germany including the 1953 comedy Miss Casanova.^[1] Löb was born to an ethnically German family in the Czech part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but emigrated to Berlin following the Empire's dissolution.

Selected filmography

• The Spanish Fly (1931)
• Signal in the Night (1937)
• After Midnight (1938)
• The Leghorn Hat (1939)
• Torreani (1951)
• The Prince of Pappenheim (1952)
• The Rose of Stamboul (1953)
• The Cousin from Nowhere (1953)
• Clivia (1954)
• The Great Lola (1954)
• The Faithful Hussar (1954)
• Consul Strotthoff (1954)
• The Country Schoolmaster (1954)
• Ball at the Savoy (1955)
• Love, Dance and a Thousand Songs (1955)
• Music in the Blood (1955)
• Before God and Man (1955)
• The First Day of Spring (1956)
• The Beautiful Master (1956)
• Just Once a Great Lady (1957)
• Precocious Youth (1957)
• Munchhausen in Africa (1958)
• The Star of Santa Clara (1958)
• And That on Monday Morning (1959)
• What a Woman Dreams of in Springtime (1959)
• The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960)
• Yes, Women are Dangerous (1960)
• The Dead Eyes of London (1961)
• The Return of Doctor Mabuse (1961)
• Our House in Cameroon (1961)
• The Inn on the River (1962)
• The Door with Seven Locks (1962)
• The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1962)
• The Indian Scarf (1963)
• Our Crazy Nieces (1963)
• The Last Ride to Santa Cruz (1964)
• Our Crazy Aunts in the South Seas (1964)
• Der Hexer (1964)
• Long Legs, Long Fingers (1966)
• Winnetou and Old Firehand (1966)
• The Hunchback of Soho (1966)
• The Monk with the Whip (1967)
• The Gorilla of Soho (1968)
• The Hound of Blackwood Castle (1968)
• The Man with the Glass Eye (1969)
• How Did a Nice Girl Like You Get Into This Business? (1970)
• What Is the Matter with Willi? (1970)
• Under the Roofs of St. Pauli (1970)
• Our Willi Is the Best (1971)
• The Body in the Thames (1971)
• Willi Manages The Whole Thing (1972)
• The Heath Is Green (1972)

References

1. Fritsche p.248

Bibliography

• Fritsche, Maria. Homemade Men In Postwar Austrian Cinema: Nationhood, Genre and Masculinity . Berghahn Books, 2013.

External links

• Karl Löb at IMDb