Hans Jacoby

Hans Jacoby
Born	23 October 1904 Breslau, Silesia German Empire
Died	31 October 1963 Zurich, Switzerland
Occupation	Screenwriter Art director
Years active	1921-1963

Hans Jacoby (1904–1963) was a German screenwriter and art director. Jacoby worked designing film sets during the Weimar Era, and from the late 1920s began contributing scripts as well. Jacoby was of Jewish background and was forced to go into exile when the Nazi Party took power in 1933. Jacoby settled in the United States for many years, working on the screenplays of a number of Hollywood productions. He returned to Germany in the mid-1950s, and worked in the West German film industry until his death.

Selected filmography

Art director

• Dämon Zirkus (1923)
• The Other Woman (1924)
• The Woman Who Did (1925)
• Vienna - Berlin (1926)
• Svengali (1927)
• Queen Louise (1927)
• Heimweh (1927)
• The Bordellos of Algiers (1927)
• The Schorrsiegel Affair (1928)
• The Last Night (1928)
• Miss Chauffeur (1928)
• Misled Youth (1929)
• The Right of the Unborn (1929)
• Fight of the Tertia (1929)
• The Woman in the Advocate's Gown (1929)
• Gold on the Street (1930)
• Three Days of Love (1931)
• The Big Attraction (1931)
• Girls to Marry (1932)

Screenwriter

• The Land of Smiles (1930)
• There Goes Susie (1934)
• I Was an Adventuress (1938)
• Gibraltar (1938)
• Princess Tarakanova (1938)
• Without Tomorrow (1940)
• Night in December (1940)
• I Was an Adventuress (1940)
• Between Us Girls (1942)
• The Amazing Mrs. Holliday (1943)
• Phantom of the Opera (1943)
• Tars and Spars (1946)
• Champagne for Caesar (1950)
• Tarzan and the Slave Girl (1950)
• Sirocco (1951)
• Reunion in Reno (1951)
• Tarzan's Savage Fury (1952)
• Taxi (1953)
• Carnival Story (1954)
• Stranger from Venus (1954)
• Vater sein dagegen sehr (1957)
• The Mad Bomberg (1957)
• Eva (1958)
• It Happened in Broad Daylight (1958)
• The Man Who Walked Through the Wall (1959)
• Menschen im Hotel (1959)
• The Black Sheep (1960)
• The Good Soldier Schweik (1960)
• The Liar (1961)

Bibliography

• Prawer, S.S. Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910–1933. Berghahn Books, 2005.

External links

• Hans Jacoby at the Internet Movie Database