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Otto Ludwig Preminger (December 5, 1906 – April 23, 1986) was a film director.

Born in Vienna, of assimilated Jewish ancestry, he worked with Max Reinhardt before emigrating to America. At first he directed and acted for 20th Century Fox, his Austrian accent typecasting him as a screen Nazi, despite his Jewish background.

After the war, he became well known as a Hollywood directors in the 1950s and early 1960s — delivering films that were well received by critics such as Andrew Sarris.

The bald-headed Preminger was known to fulfill the stereotype of the demanding Teutonic terror, in the vein of directors such as Erich von Stroheim and Fritz Lang. He was well-respected by some, but was often antagonistic towards his actors: Dyan Cannon once commented that she didn't think "he was capable of directing his nephew to the bathroom." Nonetheless, he was credited with helping break down the ingrained Catholic censorship then controlling motion pictures by dint of his demands, creativity and control.

Notable films include Anatomy of a Murder
with James Stewart and Ben Gazzara, Advise and Consent
with an on-form Charles Laughton, and Bonjour Tristesse with David Niven and Deborah Kerr. He also acted in a few movies; his most notable role is that of the warden of a German POW camp in Stalag 17
.

In the 1960s Batman television series, Preminger was one of three actors who played Mr. Freeze. Adam West who potrayed Batman recalls Preminger as incredibly rude and unpleasant, and that all members of the cast were secretly delighted when he was subsequently pursued for unpaid dues by the Screen Actors Guild.

Ingo Preminger, who produced the 1970 M*A*S*H
movie, is Otto Preminger's brother.

Through an extramarital relationship with Gypsy Rose Lee he had one child, writer and screenwriter Erik Lee Preminger.

During his marriage, he engaged in an affair with Dorothy Dandridge, who wanted him to leave his wife and marry her.

Otto Preminger died in 1986, aged 79, of cancer and Alzheimer's disease, and was interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, New York.

Filmography

Die große Liebe (1931)
Under Your Spell (1936)
Danger, Love at Work (1937)
Clare Booth Luce's Margin for Error (U.S.) aka Margin for Error (UK) (1943)
In the Meantime, Darling (1944)
Laura
(1944)
A Royal Scandal (U.S.) aka Czarina (UK) (1945)
Fallen Angel
(1945)
Forever Amber
(1947)
Daisy Kenyon (1947)
The Fan (U.S.) aka Lady Windermere's Fan (UK) (1949)
Whirlpool (1950)
Where the Sidewalk Ends
(1950)
The 13th Letter
(1951)
Angel Face
(1952)
Stalag 17
(1953)
The Moon is Blue (1953)
Carmen Jones
(1954)
River of No Return
(1954)
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
(U.S.) aka One Man Mutiny (UK) (1955)
The Man with the Golden Arm
(1956)
Saint Joan (1957)
Bonjour Tristesse (1958)
Porgy and Bess
(1959)
Anatomy of a Murder
(1959)
Exodus
(1960)
Advise and Consent
(1962)
The Cardinal
(1963)
In Harm's Way
(1964)
Bunny Lake is Missing
(1965)
Hurry Sundown
(1967)
Tell Me That You Love Me (1968)
Skidoo
(1968)
Such Good Friends (1971)
Rosebud (1975)
The Human Factor
(1979)

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