Alexander KordaFilmography

Born:: September 16, 1893 in Turkeye, Hungary
Occupation:: Director, Producer
Birth name:: Sándor Laszlo Kellner
Biography:: The first motion picture producer ever to receive a knighthood from the British Crown, Alexander Korda was a guiding force behind the British film industry throughout the 1930s as a studio chief, producer, and sometime director, and continued as a major film producer until his death in early 1956....Read More

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The Deep Blue Sea

Crew: Producer

Actors: Vivien Leigh, Kenneth More, Eric Portman, Emlyn Williams, Moira Lister

Synopsis: Adapted from the play by Terence Rattigan, The Deep Blue Sea stars Vivien Leigh as the troubled wife of a London attorney (Emlyn Williams). Racked with emotional problems, Leigh turns her back on her loveless marriage and sets up house with a handsome RAF officer (Kenneth More). When her lover Read More

1955
Richard III

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Cedric Hardwicke, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Nicholas Hannen, Claire Bloom, Ralph Richardson, Alec Clunes

Synopsis: Laurence Olivier was the director, co-screenwriter (with Alan Dent), and star of this robust adaptation of Shakespeare's drama, which, as Bruce Eder has written, "was the final, crowning glory of the British studio system and the end of the great cycle of British films aimed at international Read More

1955
The Elusive Pimpernel

Crew: Producer

Actors: David Niven, Margaret Leighton, Jack Hawkins, Cyril Cusack, David Hutcheson, Robert Coote

Synopsis: In this costume adventure set in France during the Reign of Terror, a mysterious man known only as the Scarlet Pimpernel rescues noblemen from the guillotine and leads them to safety across the English Channel. Chauvelin (Cyril Cusack) is determined to unmask the Pimpernel and bring him to Read More

1950
The Third Man

Crew: Producer

Actors: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee, Paul Hoerbiger

Synopsis: In this Cold War spy classic, Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten), a third-rate American pulp novelist, arrives in postwar Vienna, where he has been promised a job by his old friend Harry Lime (Orson Welles). Upon his arrival, Martins discovers that Lime has been killed in a traffic accident, and that Read More

1949
Anna Karenina

Crew: Producer

Actors: Vivien Leigh, Ralph Richardson, Kieron Moore, Hugh Dempster, Mary Kerridge

Synopsis: This 1948 adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina was produced in England by Alexander Korda, and released in the US by 20th Century-Fox. Vivien Leigh plays the title role, a 19th-century Russian gentlewoman married to Czarist official Ralph Richardson. Though her marriage is not intolerable Read More

1948
An Ideal Husband

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Paulette Goddard, Michael Wilding, Sr., Hugh Williams, Diana Wynyard, C. Aubrey Smith

Synopsis: A man's youthful indiscretions come back to haunt him in this droll drawing room comedy. Sir Robert Chiltern (Hugh Williams) is a fine and upstanding British gentleman who has distinguished himself in the political arena and is selflessly devoted to his wife (Diana Wynyard). However, it turns out Read More

1947
Vacation From Marriage

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Robert Donat, Deborah Kerr, Glynis Johns, Ann Todd, Roland Culver

Synopsis: A couple's wartime separation provides an unexpected tonic for their romance in this drama. Robert and Catherine Wilson (Robert Donat and Deborah Kerr) are a married couple whose relationship has hit a dry patch; neither of them have much enthusiasm for each other, and when Robert is drafted into Read More

1945
The Jungle Book

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sabu, Joseph Calleia, John Qualen, Frank Puglia, Rosemary de Camp

Synopsis: The Jungle Book isn't always faithful to the Rudyard Kipling original (in fact, it seldom is), but 1942 audiences swept up in the grandeur of the production values and the lush Technicolor photography didn't mind at all. Indian juvenile-star Sabu plays Mowgli, who having been lost in the jungle as Read More

1942
To Be or Not to Be

Crew: Producer

Actors: Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack, Felix Bressart, Lionel Atwill

Synopsis: Ernst Lubitsch directs the 1942 political satire classic To Be or Not to Be, which marked the final screen appearance of comedienne Carole Lombard. In Warsaw at the beginning of WWII, Maria Tura (Lombard) and husband Joseph (Jack Benny) perform anti-Nazi plays with their theater troupe until they Read More

1942
That Hamilton Woman

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Alan Mowbray, Sara Allgood, Gladys Cooper

Synopsis: Acting spouses Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh star in Alexander Korda's tragic tale of the adulterous love affair between Emma Lady Hamilton and Lord Horatio Nelson. The story begins in 1786, as the young and vivacious Emma Hart (Vivien Leigh) marries Sir William Hamilton (Alan Mowbray), the Read More

1941
Lydia

Crew: Producer

Actors: Merle Oberon, Edna May Oliver, Alan Marshal, Joseph Cotten, Hans Yaray

Synopsis: Adapted from a French movie entitled Un Carnet de Bal, this is a story of love unrequited. In one of her best performances, Merle Oberon portrays an elderly woman who has spent her life waiting for a man whom she had a brief liaison with but who never returned for her as he had promised. Casting Read More

1941
The Lion Has Wings

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Merle Oberon, Ralph Richardson, June Duprez, Flora Robson, Robert Douglas

Synopsis: The semidocumentary war film The Lion Has Wings states its case in broad strokes, juxtaposing images of rampaging German-dictator Adolf Hitler and appeasing British prime minister Neville Chamberlain with stock shots of bleating sheep. The film then depicts Great Britain as a great lion, willing Read More

1940
The Thief of Bagdad

Crew: Producer

Actors: Conrad Veidt, Sabu, June Duprez, John Justin, Rex Ingram

Synopsis: In ancient Bagdad, Abu, a good-natured young thief (Sabu), befriends the deposed king Ahmad (John Justin) as both are imprisoned in the palace dungeon, awaiting execution under orders from the evil vizier Jaffar (Conrad Veidt), who has seized the throne. But they escape and make their way to Read More

1940
Old Bill and Son

Crew: Producer

Actors: Morland Graham, John Mills, Mary Clare, Renee Houston, Renee Ray

Synopsis: Cartoonist Bruce Bairnsfeather's woebegone WW1 British soldier Old Bill was revived for WW2 in Old Bill and Son. When his son Young Bill (John Mills) signs up for military duty against the Nazis, Old Bill (Morland Graham) tries to re-enlist as well. Turned down for the obvious reasons, Old Bill Read More

1940
21 Days

Crew: Producer

Actors: Vivien Leigh, Leslie Banks, Laurence Olivier, Francis L. Sullivan, Hay Petrie

Synopsis: Laurence Olivier plays a young Londoner implicated in a brutal murder. According to the rules of British law, he is permitted 21 days of comparative freedom from the time of the first hearing to the time of trial -- provided he does not leave London. As the three weeks pass, Olivier falls deeply Read More

1940
Clouds over Europe

Crew: Producer

Actors: Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Valerie Hobson, George Curzon, George Merritt

Synopsis: This British spy thriller concerns the theft of valuable aircraft secrets by enemy agents. Laurence Olivier plays a firebrand test pilot who falls under suspicion when several planes disappear. Costar Ralph Richardson steals the film as a seemingly befuddled secret service operative assigned to Read More

1939
The Four Feathers

Crew: Producer

Actors: John Clements, Ralph Richardson, C. Aubrey Smith, June Duprez, Allan Jeayes

Synopsis: This was the first sound production of A.E.W. Mason's classic adventure novel, which was brought to the screen three times in the silent era. Harry Faversham (John Clements) is the son of a military man who expects his son to follow in his footsteps on the fields of battle. Gen. Burroughs (C. Read More

1939
South Riding

Crew: Producer

Actors: Edna Best, Ralph Richardson, Edmund Gwenn, Ann Todd, John Clements, Milton Rosmer, Marie Lohr

Synopsis: Set in England in the early 1900s, South Riding is a political and personal drama about a nearly bankrupt estate owner who is trying to keep himself solvent by buying into a real estate plan which he doesn't realize is morally suspect. The original British cut of South Riding ran 90 minutes, but Read More

1938
The Drum

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sabu, Raymond Massey, Roger Livesey, Valerie Hobson, David Tree

Synopsis: The Drum is an opulent Technicolor "British India" epic, based on a story by A.E.W. Mason (of Four Feathers fame). Teenaged actor Sabu stars as a young East Indian prince educated in England. By rights, his loyalties should lie with his countrymen, but in typical "Sun Never Sets" fashion most of Read More

1938
Over the Moon

Crew: Producer

Actors: Merle Oberon, Rex Harrison, Ursula Jeans, Robert Douglas, Louis Borell

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, a humble country girl lives her life in the ramshackle mansion of her aged uncle. Feeling sorry for her "poor" relation and selflessly keeping him company until he dies, she is later shocked to learn that he has left her an enormous fortune. One might think such a windfall Read More

1938
The Divorce of Lady X

Crew: Producer

Actors: Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, Binnie Barnes, Ralph Richardson, Morton Selten

Synopsis: Filmed in lavish Technicolor and given Tiffany production values by producer Alexander Korda, the British comedy Divorce of Lady X is at base a trivial little farce, buoyed by the sprightly performances of star Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier. Ms. Oberon plays a costume-party guest who is forced Read More

1938
Storm in a Teacup

Crew: Producer

Actors: Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison, Cecil Parker, Sara Allgood, Ursula Jeans

Synopsis: Directed by Ian Dalrymple, this comedy of manners is based on a German play, and is one of the lesser known pieces of Vivien Leigh and Rex Harrison's filmographies. Set in an old-fashioned Scottish town, Storm in a Teacup features Rex Harrison as an English newpaper reporter who has traveled north Read More

1937
The Squeaker

Crew: Producer

Actors: Edmund Lowe, Sebastian Shaw, Ann Todd, Tamara Desni, Robert Newton

Synopsis: Based on an Edgar Wallace novel, this is an involved story of the consequences within the underworld of a big-time diamond heist. It also tells the story of a disgraced inspector who is trying to catch the infamous jewel fence known as the "Squeaker" to help clear his name again. ~ Tana Hobart Read More

1937
Knight Without Armour

Crew: Producer

Actors: Marlene Dietrich, Robert Donat, Herbert Lomas, Austin Trevor, Basil Gill

Synopsis: Marlene Dietrich and Robert Donat star in this gripping melodrama about the Russian revolution, based on the novel by James Hilton. Donat plays A.J. Fothergill, a British interpreter in St. Petersburg who is ordered to leave Russia after writing an article that criticized the czar. Fothergill Read More

1937
Dark Journey

Crew: Producer

Actors: Conrad Veidt, Vivien Leigh, Anthony Bushell, Margery Pickard

Synopsis: The unorthodox teaming of Vivien Leigh and Conrad Veidt is but one of the many pleasures of the 1937 spy yarn Dark Journey. Leigh plays a Stockholm dress-shop owner during World War I, who, being a neutral, is permitted to travel unmolested to and from France. Veidt plays a supposedly disgraced Read More

1937
The Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel

Crew: Producer

Actors: Barry Barnes, Sophie Stewart, Margaretta Scott, James Mason, Francis Lister

Synopsis: The French revolutionary Robespierre vows to get revenge on the Scarlet Pimpernel who has been helping the aristocracy escape from the dreaded guillotine in this sequel to 1934's The Scarlet Pimpernel. To do so Robespierre kidnaps the Pimpernel's wife and takes her to France. Unfortunately, he is Read More

1937
Fire Over England

Crew: Director

Actors: Flora Robson, Raymond Massey, Leslie Banks, Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh

Synopsis: The war between England and Spain in the late 16th century serves as backdrop for the fictional machinations of Fire Over England. Laurence Olivier plays a British naval officer who offers his services to Queen Elizabeth (Flora Robson) after his father is executed by the Spaniards. The queen Read More

1937
Elephant Boy

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sabu, Walter Hudd, Allan Jeayes, W.E. Holloway, Bruce Gordon

Synopsis: The unusual amalgam of documentary maven Robert Flaherty and pure-entertainment producer Zoltan Korda resulted in the 1937 money-spinner Elephant Boy. In his screen debut, eleven-year-old Indian-born Sabu plays the title character, a mahout named Toomai. When his father is killed by a tiger Read More

1937
I Stand Condemned

Crew: Producer

Actors: Harry Baur, Laurence Olivier, Penelope Dudley-Ward, Athene Seyler, Kate Cutler, Hay Petrie, Morton Selten, Robert Cochran

Synopsis: Anthony Asquith evokes a vivid impression of Russia in 1916 in I Stand Condemned. The story follows handsome Russian officer Captain Ignatoff (Laurence Olivier), who is carried into a hospital in a delirious condition from severe war wounds. When he comes to his senses, he sees the beautiful Red Read More

1936
Conquest of the Air

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: This interesting early docu-drama offers a complete chronicle of the history of aviation from prehistoric times through the mid 1930s. Though the film was finished by 1935, it was not released until much later. H.G. Wells assisted on the first drafts of the script. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

1936
Forget Me Not

Crew: Producer

Actors: Beniamino Gigli, Joan Gardner, Ivan Brandt, Jeanne Stuart, Charles Carson

Synopsis: The Alexander and Zoltan Korda production Forget Me Not serves as a splendid showcase for that matchless Italian tenor Beniamino Gigli. The star is cast in the strangely unsympathetic role of opera star Enzo Curti, who falls in love with impressionable tourist Helen (Joan Gardner). After their Read More

1936
The Girl from Maxim's

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Frances Day, Lady Tree, Leslie Henson, George Grossmith, Desmond Jeans

Synopsis: In this British comedy, set in the City of Light during 1904, a singer and regular at Maxim's finds herself entangled in the marital travails of a doctor married to a shrew. Eventually, the doctor begins taking the seductive chanteuse around town introducing her as his wife. Mayhem and Read More

1936
Rembrandt

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Charles Laughton, Gertrude Lawrence, Elsa Lanchester, John Bryning, Edward Chapman, Walter Hudd, Richard Gofe

Synopsis: Lightning steadfastly refused to strike twice for the director/actor team of Alexander Korda and Charles Laughton. Though the pair had scored an international success with the 1933 quasi-biopic The Private Life of Henry VIII, they couldn't make the magic happen again with 1936's Rembrandt. Laughton Read More

1936
Men Are Not Gods

Crew: Producer

Actors: Miriam Hopkins, Gertrude Lawrence, Sebastian Shaw, Rex Harrison, A.E. Matthews

Synopsis: Something of a precursor to 1947's A Double Life, Men Are Not Gods takes its title from a line in Othello -- aptly so, as that play figures prominently in the film. Actress Barbara Halford (Gertrude Lawrence) is married to Edmond Davey (Sebastian Shaw), a classical actor whose new production of Read More

1936
The Man Who Could Work Miracles

Crew: Producer

Actors: Roland Young, Joan Gardner, Ralph Richardson, Ernst Thesiger, Robert Cochran

Synopsis: As a result of a discussion between a trio of gods over the true worthiness of Earth, a retiring British shop assistant is granted miraculous powers in this fantasy based on an H.G. Wells story. Roland Young stars as George McWhirter Fotheringay, whose new powers are virtually limitless; choosing Read More

1936
Things to Come

Crew: Producer

Actors: Raymond Massey, Cedric Hardwicke, Edward Chapman, Ralph Richardson, Margaretta Scott, Maurice Braddell, Sophie Stewart

Synopsis: H. G. Wells was both the author of the original source -- an essay, rather than an actual novel, concerning mankind's future -- and the screenplay (in conjunction with Lajos Biro) of this epic science fiction tale, but it was producer Alexander Korda who framed the terms on which it is presented Read More

1936
Men of Tomorrow

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Originally released in 1932, Men of Tomorrow represented the film debut of Robert Donat. The story follows a young, idealistic Oxford student in the years following his graduation. Now a successful novelist, Allen Shepherd (Maurice Bradell) has married college sweetheart Jane Anderson (Joan Gardner Read More

1935
The Ghost Goes West

Crew: Producer

Actors: Robert Donat, Jean Parker, Eugene Pallette, Everley Gregg, Elsa Lanchester, Ralph Bunker

Synopsis: Wealthy American Joe Martin (Eugene Pallette) purchases an ancient Scottish castle and then has it dismantled and transferred to his Florida estate where he plans to reconstruct the castle brick by brick. Martin is unaware that his new acquisition comes equipped with an 18th-century ghost, played Read More

1935
Sanders of the River

Crew: Producer

Actors: Paul Robeson, Leslie Banks, Nina Mae McKinney, Robert Cochran, Martin Walker

Synopsis: Based on the book by Edgar Wallace and produced by London Film Productions, the adventure drama Sanders of the River is an Imperialist propaganda film about British Colonial rule in Africa. Leslie Banks plays Commissioner "Lord Sandy" Sanders, who maintains British rule over the N'Gombi district Read More

1935
Catherine the Great

Crew: Producer

Actors: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Elisabeth Bergner, Flora Robson, Gerald du Maurier, Irene Vanbrugh, Diana Napier

Synopsis: This historical drama recounts the events that led up to the rule of Russia's 18th-century Catherine the Great. Arriving from Germany as a young woman who is to wed Grand Duke Peter, she soon becomes caught up in the court intrigue and marries the lit-fuse duke. As the Grand Duke's mother lays Read More

1934
The Private Life of Don Juan

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Douglas Fairbanks, Merle Oberon, Binnie Barnes, Joan Gardner, Benita Hume

Synopsis: Producer and director (Alexander Korda) followed up The Private Life of Henry VIII (one of the first internationally successful British films) with this historical comedy. After years in exile, the great lover Don Juan (Douglas Fairbanks) returns to Seville, the city of his salad days. However Read More

1934
The Scarlet Pimpernel

Crew: Producer

Actors: Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey, Nigel Bruce, O.B. Clarence, Bramwell Fletcher

Synopsis: This film from director Harold Young is the second big-screen adaptation of Baroness Emmuska Orczy's 1905 novel The Scarlet Pimpernel. Leslie Howard stars as Sir Percy Blakeney, a British aristocrat who rescues innocent victims of the French Revolution under the guise of The Scarlet Pimpernel Read More

1934
Overnight

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: In this drama, a bored clerk in a small-town bank embezzles some cash and goes looking for action in London. When a shady con man learns about the naïve embezzler, he sends a sexy dancer to seduce him out of his cash. Naturally, the girl ends up falling for the mild-mannered fellow and helps him Read More

1933
Strange Evidence

Crew: Producer

1933
If I Were Rich

Crew: Producer

Actors: Robert Donat, Wendy Barrie, Edmund Gwenn, Clifford Heatherley

Synopsis: Robert Donat stars as a businessman struggling to keep his company afloat in this British comedy also known as Cash. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1933
Counsel's Opinion

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: In this comedy a widow pretends to be Lord Grossmith's philandering wife in order to get a handsome lawyer to fall in love with her. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1933
The Private Life of Henry VIII

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Charles Laughton, Binnie Barnes, Merle Oberon, Elsa Lanchester, Everley Gregg

Synopsis: Charles Laughton became an international star by chewing both mutton and scenes in his Oscar-winning turn as King Henry VIII. Alexander Korda's British super-production also put the British cinema on the map, which, until this film, received precious little respect in the international film Read More

1933
Wedding Rehearsal

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: George Grossmith, Roland Young, John Loder, Lady Tree, Merle Oberon

Synopsis: Quite popular when first released, Wedding Rehearsal is a bit obscure today, which is a shame when one considers the talented cast and production staff. Roland Young plays a diffident aristocrat who is pressured to marry by his veddy proper family. Imagine their shock when Young falls in love with Read More

1932
Reserved for Ladies

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Leslie Howard, George Grossmith, Elizabeth Allan, Morton Selten, Benita Hume

Synopsis: Adapted from the Ernest Vajda novel The Head Waiter, Service for Ladies stars Leslie Howard as Max Tracey, premiere waiter of a luxurious London hotel. Falling in love with the aristocratic Sylvia Robertson (Elizabeth Allen), Max poses as a European prince, enlisting the aid of an amiable Read More

1932
Zum Goldnen Anker

Crew: Director

Actors: Albert Basserman, Jacob Tiedtke, Lucie Hoeflich, Ursula Grabley

Synopsis: Zum Goldnen Anker (The Golden Anchor) was the German-language version of the Marcel Pagnol masterpiece Marius. Jakob Tiedtke steps into the central role of Marseilles tavernkeeper Cesare, the character immortalized in the French-language version by the great Raimu. Cesare's irresponsible son Read More

1932
Rive Gauche

Crew: Director

Actors: Meg Lemonnier, Marcelle Praince, Henri Garat, Jean Worms, Robert Arnoux

Synopsis: Rive Gauche (Left Bank) is the French-language version of the 1931 Alexander Korda production Die Manner Um Lucie.When his sweetheart Lulu (Meg Lemmonier) marries a wealthy banker, young Montparnasse musician Robert (Henry Garet) heads to Rome to forget his troubles. Years later, he returns to Read More

1931
Marius

Crew: Director

Actors: Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, Orane Demazis, Fernand Charpin, Alida Rouffe, Paul Dullac

Synopsis: In this touching romance, the first in Marcel Pagnol's Marseilles trilogy (the other two being Fanny and Cesar, Pierre Fresnay stars as Marius, a young man tending bar who dreams of a life at sea. Because he so desires to become a sailor, he cannot commit to marriage even though he loves Fanny (Orane Demazis Read More

1931
Die Manner Um Lucie

Crew: Director, Producer

Synopsis: The 1930 Hollywood feature Laughter, which starred Nancy Carroll and Fredric March, was also lensed in two foreign-language versions. Both the German Die Manner um Lucie and the French Rive Gauche were directed by Alexander Korda. Liane Haid, Walter Rilla and Oskar Karlweis star in this Teutonic Read More

1931
Lilies of the Field

Crew: Director

Actors: Corinne Griffith, Ralph Forbes, John Loder, Freeman Wood, Patsy Paige

Synopsis: Silent screen sweetheart Corinne Griffith, who originally wanted to retire when talkies came in, proved the wisdom of her earlier decision when she starred in the clunky musical drama Lilies of the Field. Griffith is cast as Mildred Harker, who loses custody of her child in a messy divorce Read More

1930
Women Everywhere

Crew: Director

Actors: J. Harold Murray, George Grossmith, Clyde Cook, Rose Dione

Synopsis: This musical is the last Hollywood film made by Alexander Korda before he went on to greatness in Europe. The story is set in Morocco and chronicles the exploits of a young soldier trying to escape from the French Foreign Legion by hiding out in a nightclub. There he encounters a seductive singer. Read More

1930
The Princess and the Plumber

Crew: Director

Actors: Charles Farrell, Maureen O'Sullivan

Synopsis: In this comedy, a plumbing magnate's son, who has started on the bottom rung of his father's business, is hired to fix the pipes in an old European castle. The castle is being let by a destitute prince and his daughter. In order to restore his fortune and prestige, the prince wants her daughter to Read More

1930
Her Private Life

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Based on Zoë Akins's 1923 novel Déclassée and the 1925 film of the same title, Her Private Life stars Billie Dove as Lady Helen Haden, a married Englishwoman blackmailed after having a fling with American gambler Ned Thayer (Walter Pidgeon). When Sir Bruce Haden (Montagu Love) divorces her, Lady Read More

1929
Love and the Devil

Crew: Director

1929
The Squall

Crew: Director

Actors: Myrna Loy, Richard Tucker, Alice Joyce, Carroll Nye, Loretta Young

Synopsis: Still in the Hollywood phase of his career, director Alexander Korda made his talking-picture bow with Warner Bros.' The Squall. Myrna Loy stars as Nubi, a sexy and seductive Hungarian gypsy girl who is caught in a torrential downpour. Taking refuge in a farmhouse, Nubi wreaks havoc on the male Read More

1929
Yellow Lily

Crew: Director

Actors: Billie Dove, Clive Brook, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Nicholas Soussanin

Synopsis: Archduke Alexander (Clive Brook) is better known for his sexual conquests than his diplomatic triumphs. After a lifetime of loving 'em and leaving 'em, the Archduke finally meets a girl he can't leave, Hungarian lass Judith Peredy (Billie Dove). She resists his advances but can't hide the fact Read More

1928
The Night Watch

Crew: Director

Actors: Billie Dove, Paul Lukas, Donald Reed, Nicholas Soussanin, Anita Garvin

1928
Modern Du Barry

Crew: Director

Actors: María Corda, Jean Bradin, Friedrich Kayssler, Alfred Gerasch, Julius Szoreghi

1928
Eine DuBarry Von Heute

Crew: Director

Actors: María Corda

Synopsis: Just before launching the American phase of his career, filmmaker Alexander Korda directed his actress-wife Maria Corda in the German production A Modern DuBarry. Corda plays Toinette, a saucy, somewhat amoral scullery maid. Bouncing from bed to bed, Toinette becomes the mistress of Count Martel (Alfred Gerasch Read More

1927
Private Life of Helen of Troy

Crew: Director

Actors: María Corda, Lewis Stone, Ricardo Cortez, George Fawcett, Alice White

Synopsis: Setting the standard for his later light-hearted biopics The Private Life of Henry VIII and Rembrandt, producer-director Alexander Korda steadfastly refuses to take any of The Private Life of Helen of Troy seriously. Maria Corda, wife of the director, plays the title character as a fetchingly Read More

1927
The Stolen Bride

Crew: Director

Actors: Billie Dove, Lilyan Tashman, Armand Kaliz, Frank Beal

Synopsis: The "stolen bride" of the title is Sari (Billie Dove), a Hungarian countess. During WWI, Sari falls in love with Franz Pless (Lloyd Hughes), an American-educated soldier in the Hapsburg army. Unable to marry Sari because of the differences in their "stations in life," Franz is forced to kidnap the Read More

1927
Madame wunscht keine Kinder

Crew: Director

Actors: María Corda

Synopsis: Originally released as Madame Wunscht Keine Kinder, this Alexander Korda production served as a showcase for the producer-director's actress wife, Maria Corda. The star is cast as a carefree Parisian belle who falls in love with a somewhat stuffy bachelor. Though the heroine wants to keep up her Read More

1926
Jedermanns Frau

Crew: Director

1924
Das Unbekannte Morgen

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

1923
Herren Der Meere

Crew: Director

1922
Samson und Delila

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

1922
Prinz und Bettelknabe

Crew: Director

Actors: Tibi Lubin, Francis Everth, Francis Herter, Alfred Schreiber

Synopsis: Directing credit for this Austrian-made production went to "Alexander Kardo" -- probably a misspelling of Alexander Korda, who was working in both Austria and Germany at the time. It sticks closely to Mark Twain's original story -- when Tom Canty, a beggar's boy (Tibi Lubin) wanders into the Royal Read More

1920
Magic

Crew: Director

1917

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