Douglas Sirk

Douglas Sirk

DirectorWriterSecond Unit or Assistant Director
Born
April 26, 1897
Died
January 14, 1987

Film director Douglas Sirk, whose reputation blossomed in the generation after his 1959 retirement from Hollywood filmmaking, was born Hans Detlef Sierck in Hamburg, Germany, to a journalist. Both of his parents were Danish, and the future director would make movies in German, Danish and English.…

Producer

The First Legion(1951)

Second Unit or Assistant Director

Against All Flags(1952)