Lajos Biró

Lajos Biró

1880-08-22 Nagyvárad, Austria-Hungary [now Oradea, Romania] 53 Credits

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lajos Bíró (born Lajos Blau) (22 August 1880 – 9 September 1948) was a Hungarian novelist, playwright, and screenwriter who wrote many films from the early 1920s through the late 1940s. He was born in Nagyvárad, Austria-Hungary (now Oradea, Romania) and eventually moved to the United Kingdom where he worked as a scenario chief for London Film Productions run by Alexander Korda, collaborating on many screenplays with Arthur Wimperis. He died in London on 9 S...

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A protektor

A protektor

1976

Novel

Storm Over the Nile

Storm Over the Nile

1955

Additional Dialogue

6.1

In 1885, while his regiment is sent to the Sudan to battle the rebellious Dervish tribes, British Lieutenant Harry Faversham resigns his officer's com...

An Ideal Husband

An Ideal Husband

1947

Screenplay

6.3
Writing

A prominent politician is preparing to expose a financial scandal. But then a woman who has invested heavily in the shady venture threatens to uncover...

A Royal Scandal

A Royal Scandal

1945

Theatre Play

6.9

Catherine the Great falls in love with an army officer who is plotting against her.

Five Graves to Cairo

Five Graves to Cairo

1943

Theatre Play

6.9

The British Army, retreating ahead of victorious Rommel, leaves a lone survivor on the Egyptian border who finds refuge at a remote desert hotel. He a...

The Way of All Flesh

The Way of All Flesh

1940

Story

4.0
Writing

Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father of four children. He is sent to New York to deliver so...

The Thief of Bagdad

The Thief of Bagdad

1940

Scenario Writer

7.1
Writing

When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place, a...

Over the Moon

Over the Moon

1939

Story

5.3
Writing

Young Jane Benson just about manages to make ends meet running the large family house in Yorkshire. In love with local doctor Freddie Jarvis, she sugg...

Hotel Imperial

Hotel Imperial

1939

Story

6.0
Writing

It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and Austrians are fighting out one of the final campaigns of W...

The Drum

The Drum

1938

Adaptation

5.8

Set in the India of the British Raj, the evil and untrustworthy Prince Guhl (Raymond Massey) plans to wipe out the British troops as they enjoy the ho...

The Divorce of Lady X

The Divorce of Lady X

1938

Adaptation

6.1

The morning after a London barrister lets a mystery woman stay in his suite, a friend files for divorce.

Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel

Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel

1937

Screenplay

4.2
Writing

Sir Percy is forced to return to France one last time, to rescue his wife from the clutches of the sinister Robespierre. It's clearly a trap, but noth...

Knight Without Armour

Knight Without Armour

1937

Writer

5.8
Writing

British agent working in Russia is forced to remain longer than planned once the revolution begins. After being released from prison in Siberia he pos...

Dark Journey

Dark Journey

1937

Screenplay

6.4
Writing

Madeline Goddard, is a British double agent who meets and falls in love with a German spy Baron Karl Von Marwitz during World War I. This tale of espi...

Under the Red Robe

Under the Red Robe

1937

Screenplay

6.0
Writing

In 1620s France, dreaded swordsman Gil de Berault returns from carrying out a mission for Cardinal Richelieu, and finds the Cardinal worried about gro...

Elephant Boy

Elephant Boy

1937

Script Editor

6.6

In India, Toomai, a young mahout, helps lead the British on a large expedition to round up wild elephants.

Rembrandt

Rembrandt

1936

Writer

6.8
Writing

A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600s. Beginning with the death of his wife, Rembrandt...

The Man Who Could Work Miracles

The Man Who Could Work Miracles

1936

Writer

5.7
Writing

An ordinary man, while vigorously asserting the impossibility of miracles, suddenly discovers that he can perform them.

Sanders of the River

Sanders of the River

1935

Adaptation

5.7

A British District Officer in Nigeria in the 1930s rules his area strictly but justly. He struggles with gun-runners and slavers with the aid of a loy...

The Scarlet Pimpernel

The Scarlet Pimpernel

1934

Writer

6.9
Writing

18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely the effete aristocrat, but in reality is part of an un...

The Rise of Catherine the Great

The Rise of Catherine the Great

1934

Story, Theatre Play, Continuity

5.9
Writing

The woman who will become Catherine the Great marries into the Russian royal family when she weds Grand Duke Peter, the nephew of Empress Elizabeth. A...

The Private Life of Don Juan

The Private Life of Don Juan

1934

Writer

6.1
Writing

What do women want? Don Juan is aging. He's arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence. His wife Dolores, whom he hasn't lived with in five y...

The Girl from Maxim's

The Girl from Maxim's

1933

Writer, Dialogue

Writing

A Doctor tries to pass off a singer as his wife in Paris in 1904.

The Private Life of Henry VIII

The Private Life of Henry VIII

1933

Story

6.4
Writing

Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second wife, executed on charges of tre...

A Train of Ghosts

A Train of Ghosts

1933

Writer

6.0
Writing

Remake of the English movie Ghost Train (1931, Walter Forde). Seven people are stranded for a stormy night at a remote, unmanned railroad station past...

Wedding Rehearsal

Wedding Rehearsal

1932

Story

4.6
Writing

The grandmother of a British nobleman, reluctant to marry, plays matchmaker. He outmaneuvers her by getting all of the matches married off .

The Faithful Heart

The Faithful Heart

1932

Scenario Writer

5.5
Writing

Herbert Marshall and Edna Best, husband and wife in 1933, star in the British drama Faithful Hearts. Best plays the daughter of Marshall, who years ea...

Service for Ladies

Service for Ladies

1932

Writer

6.8
Writing

Max Tracey is the head waiter at a London hotel. He falls in love at first sight with Sylvia Robertson, an aristocratic woman, and poses as a prince t...

Michael and Mary

Michael and Mary

1931

Writer

Writing

A young bride is deserted by her husband but finds happiness with another man. They contract a bigamous marriage for the sake of their child....

The Ghost Train

The Ghost Train

1931

Writer

Writing

The story, about the social interaction of a group of railway passengers who have been stranded at a remote rural station overnight who are increasing...

Their Mad Moment

Their Mad Moment

1931

Writer

5.0
Writing

Dorothy Mackaill stars in this old-fashioned melodrama set in the Basque country of Spain. She is Emily Stanley, betrothed to foppish Englishman Sir H...

Infidelities

Infidelities

1931

Screenplay

Writing

When both husband and wife find romance outside their marriage, it's a shock to everyone. Robert and Annemarie break up to elope with their respective...

Women Everywhere

Women Everywhere

1930

Scenario Writer, Dialogue

3.0
Writing

Charles Jackson, an American sea-captain and singing soldier-of-fortune, is arrested by the French Foreign Legion for running guns to the rebel forces...

Ludwig II, King of Bavaria

Ludwig II, King of Bavaria

1930

Writer

5.0
Writing

In the last years of his life, Bavarian king Ludwig II (1845 – 1886) devotes himself to ambitious architectural projects, which strain the state coffe...

Frühlingsrauschen

1929

Script Editor

Adoration

Adoration

1928

Story

Writing

Billie Dove, as Elena, pulls out all stops as a Russian princess and a woman-of-the-streets in Paris in an exotic romance and hand-wringing drama set ...

The Haunted House

The Haunted House

1928

Writer

Writing

Four heirs to a family fortune are summoned to appear at the family estate for the reading of the will, where they meet the estate's staff, which incl...

The Yellow Lily

The Yellow Lily

1928

Writer

5.0
Writing

Archduke Alexander (Clive Brook) is better known for his sexual conquests than his diplomatic triumphs. After a lifetime of loving 'em and leaving 'em...

The Last Command

The Last Command

1928

Story

7.3
Writing

A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.

The Way of All Flesh

The Way of All Flesh

1927

Adaptation, Writer

6.9
Writing

The story takes place in Milwaukee during the early 1900s with a bank clerk named August Schiller who is happy with both his job and his family. He is...

The Heart Thief

The Heart Thief

1927

Story

Writing

Paul Kurt, embittered and disillusioned by war, returns to Budapest and devotes his life to roistering and gambling. He falls in love with Anna Galamb...

A Modern Dubarry

1927

Writer

Writing
Hotel Imperial

Hotel Imperial

1927

Story

5.8
Writing

During World War I, an Austrian officer is trapped behind the Russian lines. He tries to sneak through to his own lines, but is forced to take refuge ...

The Silent Lover

The Silent Lover

1926

Theatre Play

The dissolute Count Pierre Tornai, having dissipated his fortune in Paris, embezzles embassy funds while intoxicated; and after spending his last penn...

Don Juan's 3 Nights

Don Juan's 3 Nights

1926

Novel

1.0

A concert pianist who is popular with women tries to discourage a teenage admirer.

Eve's Secret

Eve's Secret

1925

Theatre Play

Eve's Secret is that she's not the elegant society woman she seems to be. In fact, Eve is an unkempt country girl who's been "transformed," Pygmalion ...

Tragödie im Hause Habsburg

Tragödie im Hause Habsburg

1924

Writer

Writing
Forbidden Paradise

Forbidden Paradise

1924

Theatre Play

5.7

Alexei, a young officer, saves the Czarina of a small European kingdom from revolutionary conspirators and is rewarded with her love. Infatuated, he d...

The House of Molitor

1922

Writer

Writing

Eine versunkene Welt

1922

Writer

Writing

The Prince and the Pauper

1920

Writer

5.0
Writing

Alexander Korda's early German adaptation of Mark Twain's historical fiction novel about two young boys who are born on the same day and identical in ...

Hotel Imperial

1918

Theatre Play

Sárga liliom

1914

Story

Writing