FW Murnau was greatly influenced by Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Shakespeare and Ibsen plays he had seen at the age of 12, and became a friend of director Max Reinhardt.
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21 Facts About FW Murnau
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FW Murnau later directed the film The Last Laugh, as well as a 1926 interpretation of Goethe's Faust.
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FW Murnau emigrated to Hollywood in 1926, where he joined the Fox Studio and made three films: Sunrise, 4 Devils and City Girl .
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FW Murnau had two brothers, Bernhard and Robert, and two stepsisters, Ida and Anna.
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The young FW Murnau was said to have an icy, imperious disposition and an obsession with film.
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FW Murnau studied philology at the University in Berlin and later art history and literature in Heidelberg, where director Max Reinhardt saw him at a students' performance and decided to invite him to his actor-school.
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FW Murnau soon became a friend of Franz Marc, Else Lasker-Schuler and Hans Ehrenbaum-Degele.
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In World War I FW Murnau served as a company commander at the eastern front.
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FW Murnau then joined the Imperial German Flying Corps and flew missions in northern France for two years; surviving eight crashes without severe injuries.
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FW Murnau's first feature-length film, The Boy in Blue, was a drama inspired by the Thomas Gainsborough painting.
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FW Murnau explored the theme of dual personalities, much like Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, in Der Janus-Kopf starring Veidt and featuring Bela Lugosi.
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FW Murnau's best known film is Nosferatu, an adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, starring German stage actor Max Schreck as the vampire Count Orlok.
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FW Murnau emigrated to Hollywood in 1926, where he joined the Fox Studio and made Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, a movie often cited by scholars as one of the greatest of all time.
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In spite of this, FW Murnau was financially well off, and purchased a farm in Oregon.
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Together with documentary film pioneer Robert J Flaherty, Murnau traveled to Bora Bora to make the film Tabu in 1931.
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FW Murnau joined the German air force as a radio operator in 1916.
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FW Murnau suffered a head injury and died the next day at the Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, before the premiere of his last film.
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Greta Garbo had a death mask of FW Murnau commissioned, which she kept on her desk during her years in Hollywood.
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In July 2015, FW Murnau's grave was broken into, the remains disturbed and the skull removed by persons unknown.
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FW Murnau Properties was the shell company owned by vampires, whose plan was to take over the Bronx via property acquisitions and blood acquisitions.
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