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Jul 19, 1893 Uzhhorod, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine Died on 01 May 1979 (aged 85)
Hungarian cinematographer
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About László Schäffer
- László Schäffer (July 19, 1893 – May 1979), was a Hungarian cinematographer.
- Born in Uzhhorod, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary, currently a part of the Ukraine, he worked mostly in Germany in the 1920s. He moved in his youth to Budapest, where he worked as a photographer.
- During World War I, he became a cameraman and, after 1920, went to Berlin.
- With Fritz Arno Wagner, he filmed F.
- W.
- Murnau's The Haunted Castle (1921).
- A further high point in Schäffer's career was the employment as one of several cameramen in Walter Ruttmann's experimental documentary film Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1927). After the Nazi Party rose to power in 1933, Schäffer returned to Budapest.
- He took his place behind the cameras several times, until in 1939 he emigrated to the United States.
- Establishing himself in Los Angeles, he received no requests for his occupation.
- He died in Los Angeles in 1979.
