William Dieterle
German/American actor and film director (1893–1972)
A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.
- Born
- July 15, 1893 · Ludwigshafen
- Died
- December 9, 1972 · Ottobrunn
- Nationality
- Germany, United States
- Work
- film director, film producer, screenwriter, film actor
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
1937 · United States · drama, biography
Oscar Best Picture winner 1937 · National Film Registry (inducted 2000) · NYT Best 1,000 Movies
1.893 citations - 2
1936 · United States · biography, drama
Oscar Best Picture nominee 1936 · Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 1936 #7
0.782 citations - 3
1935 · United States · comedy, romance, fantasy
Oscar Best Picture nominee 1935
0.451 citation - 4
1941 · United States · fantasy, drama
Criterion Collection spine #214 · Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema
0.272 citations - 50.111 citation
- 6
1948 · United States · romance, fantasy, drama
Edgar Wright's 1,000 favorite movies
0.111 citation
Complete filmography
All 79 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.
- 1923Man by the Wayside
- 1927Behind the Altar
- 1928Sex in Chains
- 1928The Saint and Her Fool
- 1929Rustle of Spring
- 1929Silence in the Forest
- 1929The Brandenburg Arch
- 1929The Unusual Past of Thea Carter
- 1929Triumph of Love
- 1930Ludwig II, King of Bavaria
- 1930The Dance Goes On
- 1931Demon of the Sea
- 1931Her Majesty
- 1931Kismet
- 1931One Hour of Happiness
- 1931The Last Flight
- 1931The Mask Falls
- 1931The Sacred Flame
- 1932Jewel Robbery
- 1932Man Wanted
- 1932Scarlet Dawn
- 1932Six Hours to Live
- 1932The Crash
- 1933Adorable
- 1933Female
- 1933From Headquarters
- 1933Grand Slam
- 1933Lawyer Man
- 1933The Devil's in Love
- 1934Fashions of 1934
- 1934Fog Over Frisco
- 1934Madame Du Barry
- 1934The Firebird
- 1934The Secret Bride
- 1935A Midsummer Night's Dream
- 1935Dr. Socrates
- 1936Satan Met a Lady
- 1936The Story of Louis Pasteur
- 1936The White Angel
- 1937Another Dawn
- 1937The Great O'Malley
- 1937The Life of Emile Zola
- 1937The Prince and the Pauper
- 1938Blockade
- 1939Juarez
- 1939Juarez
- 1939The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- 1940A Dispatch from Reuter's
- 1940Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
- 1941The Devil and Daniel Webster
- 1942Syncopation
- 1942Tennessee Johnson
- 1943Magic Bullets
- 1944I'll Be Seeing You
- 1944Kismet
- 1945Love Letters
- 1945This Love of Ours
- 1946The Searching Wind
- 1948Portrait of Jennie
- 1949The Accused
- 1950Dark City
- 1950Paid in Full
- 1950Rope of Sand
- 1950September Affair
- 1950Volcano
- 1951Peking Express
- 1951Red Mountain
- 1952Boots Malone
- 1952The Turning Point
- 1953Salome
- 1954Elephant Walk
- 1955Magic Fire
- 1957Omar Khayyam
- 1959Dubrowsky
- 1960Carnival Confession
- 1960Herrin der Welt (Teil II)
- 1960Mistress of the World
- 1964Quick, Let's Get Married
- —Herrin der Welt (Teil I)