Mutz Greenbaum (3 February 1896 – 5 July 1968), sometimes credited as Max Greene or Max Greenbaum, was a German film

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. He was the son of the pioneering film producer

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who had founded

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. He began as a cameraman in 1915 working on German silent movies, especially in association with directors

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, and

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. Most of the time he worked for his father's company Greenbaum-Film GmbH in Berlin, even directing some detective films around 1920. His career continued into the sound era and he moved to England working on such films as ''

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'' (1940), '' Hatter's Castle'' (1942), '' Thunder Rock'' (1942), ''

So Evil My Love ''So Evil My Love'' is a 1948 British and American Gothic psychological thriller film directed by Lewis Allen and starring Ray Milland, Ann Todd and Geraldine Fitzgerald. ''So Evil My Love'' is a period drama set in the Victorian era, and shot ...

'' (1948), ''

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'' (1950) and ''

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'' (1959), usually credited as Max Greene. Mutz Greenbaum left Germany in the early 30's, signing with Gaumont-British as director of photography. During the succeeding decades, he worked on many classic films by leading producers Michael Balcon, Alexander Korda and the Boulting Brothers. He was one of the pioneers in British film industry in the use of low-key lighting, and was one of the most sought-after cinematographers of the 1930s. His first solo credit for a British film was Hindle Wakes (1931 directed by Victor Saville).

Selected filmography

* '' Hampels Abenteuer'' (1915) * ''

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'' (1916) * '' The Dancer Barberina'' (1920) * ''

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'' (1920) * ''

Professor Larousse ''Professor Larousse'' is a 1920 German silent crime film directed by Mutz Greenbaum and starring Victor Colani, Erwin Fichtner and Erich Kaiser-Titz.Bock & Bergfelder p.167 Cast In alphabetical order * Victor Colani * Erwin Fichtner * Eri ...

'' (1920) * '' The Man in the Fog'' (1920) * ''

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'' (1920) * '' The Double Face'' (1920) * ''

Dolls of Death ''Dolls of Death'' (german: Puppen des Todes) is a 1920 German silent crime film directed by Reinhard Bruck and starring Albert Bassermann, Elsa Bassermann, and Bernhard Goetzke Bernhard Goetzke (5 June 1884 – 7 October 1964) was a German ...

'' (1920) * ''

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'' (1920) * '' Die Beichte einer Gefallenen'' (1921) * '' The Poisoned Stream'' (1921) * '' The Raft of the Dead'' (1921) * '' The Last Witness'' (1921) * ''

Hashish, the Paradise of Hell ''Hashish, the Paradise of Hell'' (German: ''Haschisch, das Paradies der Hölle'') is a 1921 German silent drama film directed by Reinhard Bruck and starring Tilla Durieux, Fritz Kortner and Paul Hartmann.Grange p.85 The film's sets were des ...

'' (1921) * '' Wildnis'' (1922) * '' Alone in the Jungle'' (1922) * ''

The White Desert ''The White Desert'' is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Reginald Barker. The film stars Claire Windsor and Pat O'Malley, with Robert Frazer, Frank Currier, and Sōjin Kamiyama. It is written by Monte M. Katterjohn and Gordon Rig ...

'' (1922) * ''

Count Cohn ''Count Cohn'' (German: ''Graf Cohn'') is a 1923 German silent film directed by Carl Boese and starring Hermann Vallentin, Frida Richard and Bernd Aldor.Bock & Bergfelder p.168 The film's sets were designed by the art director Kurt Richter. Ca ...

'' (1923) * '' Wettlauf ums Glück'' (1923) * ''

The Vice of Gambling ''The Vice of Gambling'' (german: Das Laster des Spiels) is a 1923 German silent film directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki and starring Alfred Abel, Willy Kaiser-Heyl, and Theodor Loos. The film's sets were designed by the art director Hans Dreier. ...

'' (1923) * ''

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'' (1923) * ''

The Girl from Capri ''The Girl from Capri'' (German: ''Das Mädel von Capri'') is a 1924 German silent comedy film directed by Frederic Zelnik and starring Lya Mara, Ulrich Bettac and Robert Scholz. It premiered in Berlin Berlin is Capital of Germany, the ...

'' (1924) * ''

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'' (1924) * '' Spring Awakening'' (1924) * ''

The Blonde Hannele ''The Blonde Hannele'' (german: Die blonde Hannele) is a 1924 German silent film directed by Franz Seitz and starring Maria Mindzenty, Carl de Vogt, and Helena Makowska.Bock & Bergfelder p. 168 It was made at the Emelka Studios in Munich ...

'' (1924) * '' The Creature'' (1924) * '' Düstere Schatten, strahlendes Glück'' (1924) * '' The Mistress of Monbijou'' (1924) * ''

Den of Iniquity ''Den of Iniquity'' (German: ''Sündenbabel'') is a 1925 German silent film directed by Constantin J. David and starring Reinhold Schünzel, Jack Trevor and Maly Delschaft.Bock & Bergfelder p.229 The film's sets were designed by the art direct ...

'' (1925) * ''

The Marriage Swindler ''The Marriage Swindler'' (german: Heiratsschwindler) is a 1938 German drama film directed by Herbert Selpin and starring Eduard von Winterstein, Viktoria von Ballasko and Kurt Waitzmann. It is sometimes known by the alternative title ''Die rot ...

'' (1925) * ''

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'' (1925) * ''

Rags and Silk ''Rags and Silk'' (German: ''Lumpen und Seide'') is a 1925 German silent comedy film directed by Richard Oswald and starring Reinhold Schünzel, Mary Parker and Johannes Riemann.Grange p.189 The film's sets were designed by the art director ...

'' (1925) * '' The Bohemian Dancer'' (1926) * '' The Girl on a Swing'' (1926) * '' Our Daily Bread'' (1926) * '' The Circus of Life'' (1926) * ''

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'' (1927) * '' Tragedy of a Marriage'' (1927) * ''

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'' (1927) * ''

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'' (1928) * '' Vienna, City of My Dreams'' (1928) * ''

The Republic of Flappers ''The Republic of Flappers'' (German: ''Die Republik der Backfische'') is a 1928 German silent comedy film directed by Constantin J. David and starring Käthe von Nagy, Raimondo Van Riel and Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur.Eickhoff p.494 The title refers ...

'' (1928) * ''

Pawns of Passion ''Pawns of Passion'' (German:''Marter der Liebe'') is a 1928 German silent drama film directed by Wiktor Biegański and Carmine Gallone and starring Olga Tschechowa, Harry Frank and Hans Stüwe. The film was released in the United States in 19 ...

'' (1928) * ''

Who Invented Divorce? ''Who Invented Divorce?'' (German: ''Wer das Scheiden hat erfunden'') is a 1928 German silent film directed by Wolfgang Neff and starring Alfred Abel, Hans Albers and Caleb Glenn.Bock & Bergfelder p.168 The film's sets were designed by Otto ...

'' (1928) * '' The President'' (1928) * ''

Their Son ''Their Son'' (also known as ''Sensation im Wintergarten'') is a 1929 silent film directed by Gennaro Righelli. Synopsis The son of the Countess Mensdorf runs away when he can no longer stand her relationship with the Baron Von Mallock. The s ...

'' (1929) * ''

The Night of Terror ''The Night of Terror'' (German: ''Die Nacht des Schreckens'') is a 1929 German silent film directed by Gennaro Righelli and starring Fritz Kortner, Renée Héribel and Alma Taylor.Volker p.117 It was shot at the Staaken Studios in Berlin. The fi ...

'' (1929) * ''

Only on the Rhine ''Only on the Rhine'' (german: Nur am Rhein...) is a 1930 German comedy film directed by Max Mack and starring Daisy D'Ora, Igo Sym, and Truus Van Aalten.Bock & Bergfelder p. 302 The film's sets were designed by Otto Erdmann and Hans Sohnle ...

'' (1930) * ''

Love and Champagne ''Love and Champagne'' (german: Liebe und Champagner) is a 1930 German film directed by Robert Land and starring Camilla von Hollay, Iván Petrovich, and Brita Appelgren.Bock & Bergfelder p. 168 The film's art direction was by Ludwig Reiber ...

'' (1930) * '' Two People'' (1930) * ''

The Great Longing ''The Great Longing'' (german: Die große Sehnsucht) is a 1930 German comedy film directed by Steve Sekely in his directorial debut and starring Camilla Horn, Theodor Loos, and Harry Frank. It was shot at the EFA Studios in Berlin. The film's ...

'' (1930) * ''

There Is a Woman Who Never Forgets You ''There Is a Woman Who Never Forgets You'' (German: ''Es gibt eine Frau, die dich niemals vergißt'') is a 1930 German drama film directed by Leo Mittler and starring Iván Petrovich, Lil Dagover and Helene Fehdmer.Canziani p.306 It was original ...

'' (1930) * '' Two Worlds'' (1930) * '' Hindle Wakes'' (1931) * '' A Gentleman of Paris'' (1931) * ''

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'' (1931) * '' The Forester's Daughter'' (1931) * ''

77 Rue Chalgrin ''77 Rue Chalgrin'' is a 1931 mystery film directed by Albert de Courville and starring Jean Murat, Léon Bary and Suzy Pierson. It was made as the French-language version of the British film '' 77 Park Lane'', based on a 1928 play by Walter C. ...

'' (1931) * ''

Sunshine Susie ''Sunshine Susie'' is a 1931 British musical comedy film directed by Victor Saville and starring Renate Müller, Jack Hulbert, and Owen Nares. The film was shot at Islington Studios with sets designed by Alex Vetchinsky. It was based on a novel ...

'' (1931) * ''

Love on Wheels ''Love on Wheels'' is a 1932 British musical comedy film directed by Victor Saville and starring Jack Hulbert, Gordon Harker, Edmund Gwenn and Leonora Corbett. Plot A daily commuter on a Green Line bus from the suburbs to Central London Fr ...

'' (1932) * '' The Faithful Heart'' (1932) * '' It's a Boy'' (1933) * '' The Constant Nymph'' (1933) * ''

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'' (1934) * ''

The Untouched Woman ''The Untouched Woman'' (German: ''Die unberührte Frau'') is a 1925 German silent film directed by Constantin J. David and starring Mary Nolan, Tamara Geva, and Alf Blütecher.Bock & Bergfelder p.168 The film's sets were designed by the art di ...

'' (1934) * '' Princess Charming'' (1934) * ''

Emil and the Detectives ''Emil and the Detectives'' () is a 1929 novel set mainly in Berlin, by the German writer Erich Kästner and illustrated by Walter Trier. It was Kästner's first major success and the only one of his pre-1945 works to escape Nazi censorship. T ...

'' (1935) * ''

Bulldog Jack ''Bulldog Jack'' (released as ''Alias Bulldog Drummond'' in the USA) is a 1935 British film produced by Gaumont British, directed by Walter Forde, and starring Jack Hulbert, Fay Wray, Ralph Richardson and Atholl Fleming. The film was followed ...

'' (1935) * ''

Oh, Daddy! ''Oh, Daddy!'' is a 1935 British comedy film directed by Graham Cutts and Austin Melford and starring Leslie Henson, Frances Day, Robertson Hare, and Barry MacKay. It was made at Islington Studios. The film's sets were designed by the art d ...

'' (1935) * ''

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'' (1936) * ''

Non-Stop New York ''Non-Stop New York'' (also known as ''Lisbon Clipper Mystery'') is a 1937 British science fiction crime film directed by Robert Stevenson and starring John Loder, Anna Lee and Francis L. Sullivan. It is based on the 1936 novel ''Sky Stewar ...

'' (1937) * ''

Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel ''The Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel'' is a 1937 British thriller film directed by Hanns Schwarz and starring Barry K. Barnes, Sophie Stewart, Margaretta Scott and James Mason. It is a sequel to the 1934 film ''The Scarlet Pimpernel'' based o ...

'' (1937) * ''

The Green Cockatoo ''The Green Cockatoo'' (a.k.a. ''Four Dark Hours'') is a 1937 British drama film directed by William Cameron Menzies from a story by Graham Greene and shot at Denham Studios. Starring John Mills, René Ray, and Robert Newton, it tells th ...

'' (1937) * ''

Old Iron ''Old Iron'' is a 1938 British drama film directed by Tom Walls and starring Richard Ainley, Henry Hewitt, Eva Moore and Cecil Parker. It was made at Shepperton Studios.Wood p.99 Cast * Tom Walls as Sir Henry Woodstock * Eva Moore as Lady ...

'' (1938) * ''

We're Going to Be Rich ''We're Going to Be Rich'' is a 1938 British historical musical comedy film directed by Monty Banks and starring Gracie Fields, Victor McLaglen and Brian Donlevy. Plot During the 1880s Kit Dobson, an English music hall singer performing in ...

'' (1938) * '' Keep Smiling'' (1938) * ''

'' (1939) * ''

Under Your Hat ''Under Your Hat'' is a 1940 British musical comedy spy film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Jack Hulbert, Cicely Courtneidge and Austin Trevor. Production The film was an independent production made at Isleworth Studios. It was based o ...

'' (1940) * '' This England'' (1941) * ''

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'' (1941) * ''

They Flew Alone ''They Flew Alone'' (released in the US as ''Wings and the Woman'') is a 1942 British biopic about aviator Amy Johnson directed and produced by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle, Robert Newton and Edward Chapman. It was distributed in the ...

'' (1942) * '' Hatter's Castle'' (1942) * '' Thunder Rock'' (1942) * ''

Squadron Leader X ''Squadron Leader X'' is a 1943 British World War II spy drama directed by Lance Comfort and starring Eric Portman and Ann Dvorak. The screenplay was adapted by Miles Malleson and Wolfgang Wilhelm from a short story by Emeric Pressburger. P ...

'' (1943) * ''

The Man from Morocco ''The Man from Morocco'' is a 1945 British action adventure film directed by Mutz Greenbaum as Max Greene and starring Anton Walbrook, Margaretta Scott andMary Morris. The film was shot at Welwyn Studios of Associated British. Plot A group ...

'' (1945) * ''

The Courtneys of Curzon Street ''The Courtneys of Curzon Street'' (also titled ''The Courtney Affair'' or Kathy's Love Affair, in the U.S.) is a 1947 British drama film starring Anna Neagle and Michael Wilding. It is a study of class division and snobbery in Britain in t ...

'' (1947) * ''

Elizabeth of Ladymead ''Elizabeth of Ladymead'' is a 1948 British Technicolor drama film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle, Hugh Williams, Isabel Jeans and Bernard Lee. It charts the life of a British family between 1854 and 1945 and their i ...

'' (1948) * ''

Spring in Park Lane ''Spring in Park Lane'' is a 1948 British romantic comedy film produced and directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding and Tom Walls. It was part of a series of films partnering Neagle and Wilding. It was the top f ...

'' (1948) * ''

Maytime in Mayfair ''Maytime in Mayfair'' is a 1949 British musical comedy film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Nicholas Phipps, and Tom Walls. It was a follow up to ''Spring in Park Lane''. The film was one of the most popula ...

'' (1949) * ''

'' (1950) * '' Odette'' (1950) * '' Into the Blue'' (1950) * '' The Lady with a Lamp'' (1951) * '' Derby Day'' (1952) * ''

My Teenage Daughter ''My Teenage Daughter'', later ''Teenage Bad Girl'', is a 1956 British drama film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle, Sylvia Syms and Norman Wooland. The screenplay concerns a mother who tries to deal with her teenage daughte ...

'' (1956) * ''

Lucky Jim ''Lucky Jim'' is a novel by Kingsley Amis, first published in 1954 by Victor Gollancz. It was Amis's first novel and won the 1955 Somerset Maugham Award for fiction. The novel follows the exploits of the eponymous James (Jim) Dixon, a relucta ...

'' (1957) * '' Brothers in Law'' (1957) * ''

The Moonraker ''The Moonraker'' is a British swashbuckler film made in 1957 and released in 1958 and set in the English Civil War. It was directed by David MacDonald and starred George Baker, Sylvia Syms, Marius Goring, Gary Raymond, Peter Arne, John Le M ...

'' (1958) * ''

'' (1959) * '' Carlton-Browne of the F.O.'' (1959) * ''

A French Mistress ''A French Mistress'' is a 1960 British comedy film directed by Roy Boulting and starring Cecil Parker, James Robertson Justice, Agnès Laurent, Ian Bannen, Raymond Huntley, Irene Handl and Thorley Walters. It is based on a stage play, '' ...

'' (1960) * ''

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'' (1960) * ''

The Secret Ways ''The Secret Ways'' is a 1961 American neo noir mystery thriller film based on Alistair MacLean's 1959 novel '' The Last Frontier''. It was directed by Phil Karlson and stars Richard Widmark. Plot In 1960 Vienna, after Soviet tanks crush the H ...

'' (1961) * '' Sparrows Can't Sing'' (1963) * ''

Heavens Above! ''Heavens Above!'' is a 1963 British satirical comedy film starring Peter Sellers, directed by John and Roy Boulting, who also co-wrote along with Frank Harvey, from an idea by Malcolm Muggeridge. It is in a similar vein to the earlier collabor ...

'' (1963)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Greenbaum, Mutz 1896 births 1968 deaths Film people from Berlin People from the Province of Brandenburg Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United Kingdom