William Dieterle
German actor
Died when: 79 years 147 days (952 months)Star Sign: Cancer
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William Dieterle (July 15, 1893 – December 9, 1972) was a German-born actor and film director who emigrated to the United States in 1930 to leave a worsening political situation.
He worked in Hollywood primarily as a director for much of his career, becoming a United States citizen in 1937.He moved back to Germany in the late 1950s.
His best-known films include The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) and The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941).
His film The Life of Emile Zola (1937) won the Academy Award for Best Picture, the second biographical feature to do so.
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