John Brahm

Hailed by some as a unique stylist and by others as a rank imitator of better directors, John Brahm was the son of German actor Ludwig Brahm and the nephew of European theatrical impresario Otto Brahm. Shuttling between Vienna, Berlin and Paris after World War I, the Hamburg-born Brahm was resident director for such acting troupes as Deutsches Kunstler Theatre and the Lessing Theatre; along the way, he married prominent Teutonic stage and film actress Dolly Haas. The emergence of Hitler compelled Brahm to emigrate to England, where, after working as a movie production supervisor, he was given his first chance to direct a film, the 1936 remake of the old D.W. Griffith chestnut Broken Blossoms, which starred his wife. He came to America in 1937 with a fat contract from Columbia Pictures in his hand, helming many of that studio's "A"-minus and "B" pictures before moving to 20th Century-Fox in the early 1940s. Amidst many pedestrian efforts, Brahm directed the atmospheric, shadow-drenched terror pieces The Undying Monster (1942), The Lodger (1944) and Hangover Square (1945). His career flagging in the 1950s, Brahm switched his attentions to television, where he helmed some of the best-ever episodes of such series as "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," "The Twilight Zone," "Thriller" and "The Outer Limits." John Brahm's last theatrical feature was the 1967 potboiler Hot Rods to Hell, which was originally intended to be a made-for-TV movie.

Filmography

Rating	Title	Credit	Box Office	Year
No Score Yet	Hot Rods to Hell	Director	—	1967
No Score Yet	Bengazi	Director	—	1955
No Score Yet	The Mad Magician	Director	—	1954
No Score Yet	Die Goldene Pest	Director	—	1954
No Score Yet	The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima	Director	—	1952
No Score Yet	Singapore	Director	—	1947
No Score Yet	The Brasher Doubloon	Director	—	1947
No Score Yet	The Locket	Director	—	1946
No Score Yet	Hangover Square	Director	—	1945
No Score Yet	Guest in the House	Director	—	1944
No Score Yet	The Lodger	Director	—	1944
No Score Yet	Tonight We Raid Calais	Director	—	1943
No Score Yet	Wintertime	Director	—	1943
No Score Yet	The Undying Monster (The Hammond Mystery)	Director	—	1942
No Score Yet	Escape to Glory	Director	—	1940
No Score Yet	Let Us Live	Director	—	1939
No Score Yet	Penitentiary	Director	—	1938
No Score Yet	Broken Blossoms	Director	—	1936
No Score Yet	Scrooge	Producer	—	1935

Rating	Title	Credit	Year
80%	The Twilight Zone 1959-1964	Director	1989 1964 1963 1962 1961 1960 1959
No Score Yet	The Girl From U.N.C.L.E. 1966-1967	Director	1967 1966
100%	The Man From U.N.C.L.E. 1964-1968	Director	1967 1966 1965 1964
No Score Yet	Dr. Kildare 1961-1966	Director	1965 1963 1962 1961
No Score Yet	Gunsmoke 1955-1975	Director	1964
No Score Yet	Alfred Hitchcock Presents 1955-1962	Director	1961 1960 1959
No Score Yet	Bonanza 1959-1973	Director	1959

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