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...
Complete Filmography

A protektor
1976
Novel

Storm Over the Nile
1955
Additional Dialogue
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
1947
Screenplay
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
1945
Theatre Play
Catherine the Great falls in love with an army officer who is plotting against her.

Five Graves to Cairo
1943
Theatre Play
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
1940
Story
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
1940
Scenario Writer
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
1939
Story
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
1939
Story
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
1938
Adaptation
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
1938
Adaptation
The morning after a London barrister lets a mystery woman stay in his suite, a friend files for divorce.

Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel
1937
Screenplay
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
1937
Writer
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
1937
Screenplay
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
1937
Screenplay
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
1937
Script Editor
In India, Toomai, a young mahout, helps lead the British on a large expedition to round up wild elephants.

Rembrandt
1936
Writer
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
1936
Writer
An ordinary man, while vigorously asserting the impossibility of miracles, suddenly discovers that he can perform them.

Sanders of the River
1935
Adaptation
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
1934
Writer
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
1934
Story, Theatre Play, Continuity
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
1934
Writer
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
1933
Writer, Dialogue
A Doctor tries to pass off a singer as his wife in Paris in 1904.

The Private Life of Henry VIII
1933
Story
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
1933
Writer
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
1932
Story
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
1932
Scenario Writer
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
1932
Writer
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
1931
Writer
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
1931
Writer
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
1931
Writer
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
1931
Screenplay
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
1930
Scenario Writer, Dialogue
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
1930
Writer
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
1928
Story
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
1928
Writer
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
1928
Writer
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
1928
Story
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
1927
Adaptation, Writer
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
1927
Story
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

Hotel Imperial
1927
Story
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
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
1926
Novel
A concert pianist who is popular with women tries to discourage a teenage admirer.

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
1924
Writer

Forbidden Paradise
1924
Theatre Play
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
Eine versunkene Welt
1922
Writer
The Prince and the Pauper
1920
Writer
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