Otto Eis

Otto Eis
Born	19 March 1903 Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Died	14 January 1952 Los Angeles, California United States
Occupation	Writer
Years active	1931-1949 (film)

Otto Eis (1903–1952) was an Austrian-born writer who worked on a number of screenplays. He was born Otto Eisler to a Jewish family in Budapest which was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He later moved to Germany, where he was employed in the German film industry. Following the Nazi seizure of power in 1933, he moved to Austria, but had to flee again to France following the Anchluss. Eis later moved to the United States, but struggled to secure work in Hollywood although he wrote scripts for a handful of B pictures. Eis was the brother of Egon Eis with whom he co-wrote the screenplay for The Squeaker (1931).^[1]

Selected filmography

• The Man with the Claw (1931)
• The Squeaker (1931)
• A Shot at Dawn (1932)
• The Star of Valencia (1933)
• Prison Without Bars (1938)
• Water for Canitoga (1939, original play)
• I Was a Prisoner on Devil's Island (1941)
• Big Jack (1949)

References

1. Bergfelder p.145

Bibliography

• Bergfelder, Tim. International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-productions in the 1960s. Berghahn Books, 2005.

External links

• Otto Eis at the Internet Movie Database