19 Facts About Emeric Pressburger

Emeric Pressburger has been played on screen by Alec Westwood in the award-winning short film Oran na h-Eala which explores Moira Shearer's life-changing decision to appear in The Red Shoes.

Imre Jozsef Emeric Pressburger was born in Miskolc, in the Kingdom of Hungary, of Jewish heritage.

Emeric Pressburger was the only son of Kalman Pressburger, estate manager, and his second wife, Katherina (nee Wichs).

Emeric Pressburger attended a boarding-school in Temesvar, where he was a good pupil, excelling at mathematics, literature and music.

Emeric Pressburger then studied mathematics and engineering at the Universities of Prague and Stuttgart before his father's death forced him to abandon his studies.

Related searches

Emeric Pressburger later said, "[the] worst things that happened to me were the political consequences of events beyond my control.

Emeric Pressburger left his Berlin apartment, "leaving the key in the door so that the Stormtroopers wouldn't have to break the door down" and left for Paris.

Emeric Pressburger was much more than simply "Michael Powell's screenwriter" as some have categorised him.

The films they made together in this period were mainly original stories by Emeric Pressburger, who did most of the work of a producer for the team.

Emeric Pressburger was more involved in the editing process than Powell, and, as a musician, Emeric Pressburger was involved in the choice of music for their films.

Powell and Emeric Pressburger began to go their separate ways after the mid-1950s.

On 24 June 1938, Emeric Pressburger married Agi Donath, the daughter of Andor Donath, a general merchant, but they divorced in 1941.

Emeric Pressburger remarried, on 29 March 1947, to Wendy Orme, and they had a daughter, Angela, and another child who died as a baby in 1948; but this marriage ended in divorce in Reno, Nevada in 1953 and in Britain in 1971.

Emeric Pressburger was made a Fellow of BAFTA in 1981, and a Fellow of the BFI in 1983.

Emeric Pressburger was a diffident and private person who, at times, particularly later on in his life, could be hypersensitive and prone to bouts of melancholia.

Emeric Pressburger loved French cuisine, enjoyed music, and possessed a great sense of humour.

Emeric Pressburger was a keen supporter of Arsenal F C, a passion he developed soon after arriving in Britain.

Emeric Pressburger is interred in the cemetery of Our Lady of Grace Church, Aspall.

Emeric Pressburger's is the only grave in that Church of England graveyard with a Star of David.