F. W. Murnau is recorded in the Getty Union List of Artist Names with the biographical note: German filmmaker, 1888-1931. Getty classifies the person under these roles: filmmakers. The nationality terms attached to the record are German. The record carries 5 forms of the name and the identifier 500283702. In this atlas the person is linked as the creator of Nosferatu and Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans. The Union List of Artist Names is the Getty Research Institute's controlled vocabulary of artist names, built to support cataloguing and to separate people who share a name.
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Source Getty Research Institute Union List of Artist Names: Murnau, F. W. (German filmmaker, 1888-1931)
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Murnau, F. W. (German filmmaker, 1888-1931)
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Bielefeld, German Empire
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1. Getty Research Institute Union List of Artist Names: Murnau, F. W. (German filmmaker, 1888-1931)
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Murnau, F. W. (German filmmaker, 1888-1931)
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Murnau, F. W. (German filmmaker, 1888-1931)
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1919-1931
In Group: Expressionist and Soviet Montage Directors, Lead
a masterpiece of German Expressionist cinema
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a 1922 silent German Expressionist vampire film directed by F. W. Murnau from a screenplay by Henrik Galeen.
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (Wikipedia)
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a 1927 American synchronized sound romantic drama directed by German director F. W. Murnau (in his American film debut) and starring George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, and Margaret Livingston.
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