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William Dieterle

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William Dieterle was a German-born actor and film director, born in Ludwigshafen on 15 July 1893 and died on 9 December 1972. He immigrated to the United States in 1930 to leave a worsening political situation, worked in Hollywood primarily as a director for much of his career and became a United States citizen in 1937. He moved back to Germany in the late 1950s. His best-known films include The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) and The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941), and The Life of Emile Zola (1937) won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

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1. Wikipedia: William Dieterle
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    July 15, 1893
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    was a German-born actor and film director who immigrated to the United States in 1930
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The Life of Emile Zola (Wikipedia)
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