Lupu Pick

Lupu Pick (2 January 1886 – 7 March 1931) was a German actor, film director, producer and screenwriter of the silent era. He appeared in 50 films between 1910 and 1928.

Lupu Pick
Born(1886-01-02)2 January 1886
Iaşi, Romania
Died7 March 1931(1931-03-07) (aged 45)
Berlin, Germany
OccupationActor, film director
Years active1910–1931

Born in Romania, Pick's father was a Jewish Austrian,[1] his mother, of Romanian origin. He began as a stage actor in Hamburg, Flensburg and Berlin before 1910. In 1917 he founded the film company Rex-Film AG.

He served on the board of the Film Association of Industrialists (Vorstand des Verbandes der Filmindustriellen), SPIO and the Film Directors Association of Germany (Verbandes der Filmregisseure Deutschlands) and worked intensively to establish the union-based umbrella organization of Filmmakers in Germany (Filmschaffenden Deutschlands) (Dacho). He was the organization's first chairman.

Pick was married to actress Edith Posca.

Selected filmography
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gollark: Maybe I should add a mechanism to <@!509849474647064576> to let people vote on the important issues, like what the correct plural of gecko is.
gollark: What *are* you referring to here?
gollark: What camera stuff?
gollark: We really should formalize these things.

References
  1. Hans Morgenstern "Jüdisches biographisches Lexikon. Eine Sammlung von bedeutenden Persönlichkeiten jüdischer Herkunft ab 1800", LIT Verlag, Vienna; p.637
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