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Biography
Lajos Bíró (born Lajos Blau) (22 August 1880 – 9 September 1948) was a Austro-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 September 1948 of a heart attack. He is buried in the northern section of Hampstead Cemetery in north London.
In 1929, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Writing for The Last Command, but lost to Ben Hecht for Underworld, the only other nomination in this category.
Partial filmography
- The Prince and the Pauper (1920)
- A Vanished World (1922)
- Tragedy in the House of Habsburg (1924)
- Forbidden Paradise (1924) (play)
- Eve's Secret (1925)
- A Modern Dubarry (1927)
- The Heart Thief (1927)
- The Way of All Flesh (1927)
- The Last Command (1928) (story)
- Yellow Lily (1928)
- Night Watch (1928)
- The Haunted House (1928)
- Women Everywhere (1930)
- Michael and Mary (1931)
- Service for Ladies (1932)
- The Golden Anchor (1932)
- The Faithful Heart (1932)
- Strange Evidence (1933)
- The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)
- Catherine the Great (1934) (play)
- The Private Life of Don Juan (1934)
- The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)
- Sanders of the River (1935)
- The Ghost Goes West (1935)
- Rembrandt (1936)
- The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936)
- Dark Journey (1937)
- Knight Without Armour (1937)
- The Divorce of Lady X (1938)
- The Drum (1938)
- The Four Feathers (1939)
- The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
- Five Graves to Cairo (1943) (play)
- A Royal Scandal (1945) (play)
- An Ideal Husband (1947)