Edgar G. Ulmer

American film director, set designer (1904-1972)

1.47body-of-work score · ranked #651 of 2631 directors · 3 films in our library

A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.

Born: September 17, 1904 · Olomouc
Died: September 30, 1972 · Woodland Hills
Nationality: United States, Austria
Work: film director, writer, screenwriter, cinematographer
Reference: Wikipedia · Wikidata

Films in our library, ranked

Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.

1
Detour
1945 · United States · crime, drama, film-noir
TIME All-TIME 100 · National Film Registry (inducted 1992) · Criterion Collection spine #966
0.895 citations
2
The Black Cat
1934 · United States · horror, drama
Empire 500 (2008) #257 · Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema
0.302 citations
3
People on SundayMenschen am Sonntag
1930 · Germany · silent, drama
Criterion Collection spine #569 · Edgar Wright's 1,000 favorite movies
0.272 citations

Complete filmography

All 45 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.

1924The Grand Duke's Finances
1930People on Sunday
1931Aloha
1933Damaged Lives
1933Mussolini Speaks
1934The Black Cat
1934Thunder Over Texas
1937Green Fields
1938Yankl der Shmid
1939Cossacks in Exile
1939Moon Over Harlem
1939The Light Ahead
1940American Matchmaker
1940Goodbye, Mr. Germ
1940They Do Come Back
1942Tomorrow We Live
1943Girls in Chains
1943Isle of Forgotten Sins
1943Jive Junction
1943My Son, the Hero
1944Bluebeard
1944Minstrel Man
1945Club Havana
1945Detour
1945Strange Illusion
1946Her Sister's Secret
1946The Strange Woman
1946The Wife of Monte Cristo
1947Carnegie Hall
1948Ruthless
1950Les Dépravées
1950The Pirates of Capri
1951St. Benny the Dip
1951The Man from Planet X
1952Babes in Bagdad
1954Loves of Three Queens
1955Murder Is My Beat
1955The Naked Dawn
1957The Daughter of Dr. Jekyll
1959Hannibal
1959The Naked Venus
1960Beyond the Time Barrier
1960The Amazing Transparent Man
1961Journey Beneath the Desert
1964The Cavern