Reisch, Walter

LC control no.	n 85151725
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Reisch, Walter *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Fleisch, Walter, 1903-1983
Associated place	Great Britain Austria Germany Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Birth date	1903-05-23 1900
Death date	1983-03-28 1983
Place of birth	Vienna (Austria)
Place of death	Los Angeles (Calif.)
Field of activity	Motion pictures Motion picture industry Motion picture authorship Motion pictures--Production and direction
Affiliation	Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Universität Wien UFA (Firm)
Profession or occupation	Screenwriters Motion picture producers and directors
Found in	Ninotchka [MP] 1937: credits (Walter Reisch) LC data base, 4/20/87 (hdg.: Reisch, Walter) Halliwell's Filmgoer's comp., 1980 (Walter Reisch; b. 1900; writer) Brackett, Charles. "Nearer my God to thee": [screenplay], 1952. Ernst Lubitsch's That uncertain feeling, c2007: opening credits (adaptation by Walter Reisch) Halliwell's filmgoer's and video viewer's companion, 1993: page 640 (Walter Reisch, 1900-1983; Austrian writer who in the 30s came to Britain, then Hollywood) Katz, E. The film encyclopedia, ©2008: page 1191 (Walter Reisch; screenwriter, occasional director; born May 23, 1903, Vienna; died 1983; entered films in his late teens as an assistant to Alexander Korda; contributed screenplays for numerous Austrian and German productions, alone or in collaboration) The encyclopedia of British film, 2013: page 638 (Walter Reisch; born Vienna, 1903; died, Los Angeles, 1983; screenwriter; co-wrote several British-German co-productions, and directed one British film, Men are not gods, on his way to Hollywood, where he worked on Ninotchka and Gaslight) IMDb, November 30, 2015 (Walter Reisch; born May 23, 1903, Vienna, Austria; died March 28, 1983, Los Angeles, California; writer, director, actor; studied at the University of Vienna; worked for Ufa; worked for MGM from 1938 to 1948; joined 20th Century Fox in 1949; alternate name: Walter Fleisch)
Associated language	eng ger