* 1909 – Hermann Lang, German race car driver ( d. 1987 )

Also, the German Expressionists ( including Fritz Lang, who was not technically an expressionist as popularly believed ) emigrated to America and brought their stylized lighting effects ( and disillusionment due to the war ) to American soil.

His writing stint was brief, as Lang soon started to work as a director at the German film studio Ufa, and later Nero-Film, just as the Expressionist movement was building.

According to Lang, propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels called Lang to his offices to inform him that The Testament of Dr Mabuse was being banned but that he was nevertheless so impressed by Lang's abilities as a filmmaker ( especially Metropolis ), he was offering Lang a position as the head of German film studio UFA.

The German producer Artur Brauner expressed interest in remaking The Indian Tomb ( a story that Lang had developed in the twenties that was ultimately taken from him by studio heads and directed instead by Joe May ), so Lang abandoned his plans for retirement and returned to Germany in order to make his " Indian Epic ".

* An old German director with the demeanor of Lang appears during the filming of a bank robbery in Woody Allen's 1969 comedy Take the Money and Run.

Fritz Lang in Hollywood ; Wien: Europaverlag, c1986 ; ISBN 3-203-50953-9 ( in German )

Several twentieth-century German writers, including Peter Bender, Johannes Lang, Karl Neupert, and Fritz Braun, published works advocating the hollow Earth hypothesis, or Hohlweltlehre.

* In Jean-Luc Godard's film Le Mépris ( 1963 ), German film director Fritz Lang plays himself attempting to direct a film adaptation of the Odyssey.

Director Fritz Lang created perhaps the most globally well-known cinema examples of German Expressionism.

** Hermann Lang, German race car driver ( b. 1909 )

* March 30 – Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg, German statesman and archbishop of Salzburg ( b. 1469 )

In this year, Nuvolari scored his most impressive victory, thought by many to be the greatest victory in car racing of all times, when at the German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring, driving an old Alfa Romeo P3 ( 3167 cc, compressor, 265 hp ) versus the dominant, all conquering home team's cars of five Mercedes-Benz W25 ( 3990 cm³, 8C, compressor,, driven by Caracciola, Fagioli, Hermann Lang, Manfred von Brauchitsch and Geyer ) and four Auto Union Tipo B ( 4950 cc, 16C, compressor,, driven by Bernd Rosemeyer, Varzi, Hans Stuck and Paul Pietsch ).

Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist science-fiction film directed by Fritz Lang.

Hitler had been previously allegorically pilloried in the German film by Fritz Lang, The Testament of Dr. Mabuse.

M is a 1931 German drama-thriller directed by Fritz Lang and starring Peter Lorre.

* Hermann Lang ( 1909 – 1987 ), German race car driver

* Spies, English title for Spione, a 1928 German film by Fritz Lang

Perhaps the first software-defined radio transceiver was designed and implemented by Peter Hoeher and Helmuth Lang at the German Aerospace Research Establishment ( DLR, formerly DFVLR ) in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, in 1988.

Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, 1987 ( in German )

The chilling German film M ( 1931 ) directed by Fritz Lang, starred Peter Lorre ( in his first film role ) as a criminal deviant who preys on children.

* 1890 – Fritz Lang, Austrian-born film director ( d. 1976 )

While City Streets and other pre-WWII crime melodramas such as Fury ( 1936 ) and You Only Live Once ( 1937 ), both directed by Fritz Lang, are categorized as full-fledged noir in Alain Silver and Elizabeth Ward's film noir encyclopedia, other critics tend to describe them as " proto-noir " or in similar terms.

Working mostly on A features, he made no fewer than eight films now regarded as classic-era film noirs ( a figure matched only by Lang and Mann ).

Friedrich Christian Anton " Fritz " Lang ( December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976 ) was an Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor.

She and Lang co-wrote all of his movies from 1921 through 1933, including 1922's Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler ( Dr. Mabuse the Gambler ), which ran for over four hours in two parts in the original version and was the first in the Dr. Mabuse trilogy, 1924's five-hour Die Nibelungen, the famous 1927 film Metropolis, and the 1931 classic, M, his first " talking " picture.

In 1931, after Woman in the Moon, Lang directed what many film scholars consider to be his masterpiece: M, a disturbing story of a child murderer ( Peter Lorre in his first starring role ) who is hunted down and brought to rough justice by Berlin's criminal underworld.

Testament is sometimes deemed an anti-Nazi film as Lang had put phrases used by the Nazis into the mouth of the title character.

Following the production, Brauner was ready to proceed with his remake of Das Testament des Doctor Mabuse when Lang approached him with the idea of adding another original film to the series.

* Lang appears as himself in Jean-Luc Godard's 1963 film Le Mepris.

* The film director " Fritz Wong " in Ray Bradbury's novels A Graveyard for Lunatics and Let's All Kill Constance is a composite of Fritz Lang and James Wong Howe

*-Contains interviews with Lang and a discussion of the making of the film M

* 2000: Metropolis ( soundtrack to the Fritz Lang film )

A. Baracus in the 1980s television series The A-Team, as boxer Clubber Lang in the 1982 film Rocky III, and for his appearances as a professional wrestler.

" comes from the film ; when asked if he hates Rocky, Lang replies, " No, I don't hate Balboa, but I pity the fool.

In California, Adorno made the acquaintance of Charlie Chaplin and became friends with Fritz Lang and Hanns Eisler, with whom he completed a study of film music in 1944.

** Fritz Lang, Austrian-German-American filmmaker, screenwriter and occasional film producer ( b. 1890 )

* February 7 – Walter Lang, American film director ( b. 1896 )

" British novelist Malcolm Lowry, painter Oskar Kokoschka, orchestra director Wilhelm Furtwängler, and filmmaker Fritz Lang were also fans of Spengler's work.

Jennings Lang arranged for Eastwood to meet Don Siegel, a Universal contract director who later became Eastwood's close friend, forming a partnership that would last more than ten years and produce five films.

* Clash by Night, with audio interview excerpts of director Fritz Lang

* Fury, with audio interview excerpts of director Fritz Lang

* M, with digital transfer supervisor Torsten Kaiser and restoration supervisor Martin Koerber, plus audio interview excerpts of director Fritz Lang

Shooting of the film was a draining experience for the actors involved, due to the demands made of them by director Fritz Lang.

The actor became much more widely known after director Fritz Lang cast him as a child killer in the film M ( 1931 ).

Scarlet Street is a 1945 American film noir directed by Fritz Lang and based on the French novel La Chienne ( The Bitch ) by Georges de La Fouchardière, that previously had been dramatized on stage by André Mouëzy-Éon, and cinematically as La Chienne ( 1931 ) by director Jean Renoir.

* Fritz Lang, director

* Walter Lang ( 1896 – 1972 ), film director

* Walter Howell III ( 1980 ), international director of Jones Lang LaSalle, the world's largest commercial real estate development firm

was Bertolt Brecht, who wrote the story along with director Fritz Lang.

As director Fritz Lang later recalled, " The work he had done as consultant and advisor ... was amazing.

After learning about Smallville from the show's casting director, Dee Dee Bradley, Allison Mack toyed with the idea of auditioning for the role of Lana Lang, but chose instead to audition for the role of Chloe Sullivan.

The idea was taken up by French Music and Dance director Maurice Fleuret for Minister of Culture Jack Lang in 1981 and first took place in 1982 in Paris.

is a 1943 war film directed by the Austrian director Fritz Lang and written by John Wexley, Bertolt Brecht and Lang.

The movie's director, Fritz Lang, wanted to insert the actors into shots of miniatures of skyscrapers and other buildings, so Schüfftan used a specially made mirror to create the illusion of actors interacting with huge, realistic-looking sets.