Still of Jean-Luc Godard and Fritz Lang in Le mépris (1963)
Caption: Still of Jean-Luc Godard and Fritz Lang in Le mépris (1963)
Director, Writer, Producer
Born: December 5, 1890
Star sign: Sagittarius
Height: 5' 11" (1.8 m)
Known for: M (1931), Metropolis (1927), Fury (1936), The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
Source: IMDB
Fritz Lang was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1890. His father managed a construction company. His mother, Pauline Schlesinger, was Jewish but converted to Catholicism when Lang was ten. After high school, he enrolled briefly at the Technische Hochschule Wien and then started to train as a painter. From 1910 to 1914, he traveled in Europe, and he ...