History Creator / AnthonyMann

He was born Emil Anton Bundsmann in San Diego, California to a family of Austrian immigrants. He eventually found work as an actor in TheThirties and a theatre director in the early forties, noted especially for his productions of Greek tragedy. He eventually came to Hollywood by which time his professional handle became Anthony Mann.

The second and most famous phase is a series of films with Creator/JamesStewart resulting in eight films, several of them westerns known for their use of colour, powerful sense of landscape, psychological complexity and intensity, and moments of shocking violence. This period with also included important westerns not made with Stewart such as ''The Furies'' with Creator/BarbaraStanwyck, ''The Last Frontier'' with Victor Mature and ''Man of the West'' (with Creator/GaryCooper). Mann is considered by cinephiles to be the greatest director of westerns after Creator/JohnFord. Mann was especially proud for the fact that he used a diversity of western landscapes instead of [[ArtisticLicenseGeography Monument Valley, Utah]] used by Ford. His films are especially remarkably for expanding the biomes one associates with the West, the characterestic red rocks and brown deserts are there, but you also have lush greens, forests, rivers and in the case of ''The Far Country'' a Western in a snow-bound region with a bleak atmosphere that anticipates ''Film/McCabeAndMrsMiller''. Some of these westerns were admired in Europe by the likes of Creator/JeanLucGodard.

Mann's career is divided into three main phases starting from the mid-late forties and ending in the early sixties. The first phase was a period of apprenticeship where he made many BMovie collaborating with the famous cinematographer John Alton (author of "Painting with Light" an important textbook for film school students). These films (''T-Men, Raw Deal'') are famous for their use of {{Chiaroscuro}} and for their psychological insights. Included alongside this are unusual period films like ''Reign of Terror'' and ''The Tall Target''. He also made a well regarded film about the Korean War starring Robert Ryan (''Men in War'').

The second and most famous phase is a series of films with Creator/JamesStewart resulting in eight films, several of them westerns known for their use of colour, powerful sense of landscape, psychological complexity and intensity, and moments of shocking violence. This period with also included important westerns not made with Stewart such as ''The Furies'' with Creator/BarbaraStanwyck, ''The Last Frontier'' with Victor Mature and ''Man of the West'' (with Gary Cooper). Mann is considered by cinephiles to be the greatest director of westerns after Creator/JohnFord. Mann was especially proud for the fact that he used a diversity of western landscapes instead of [[ArtisticLicenseGeography Monument Valley, Utah]] used by Ford. His films are especially remarkably for expanding the biomes one associates with the West, the characterestic red rocks and brown deserts are there, but you also have lush greens, forests, rivers and in the case of ''The Far Country'' a Western in a snow-bound region with a bleak atmosphere that anticipates ''Film/McCabeAndMrsMiller''. Some of these westerns were admired in Europe by the likes of Creator/JeanLucGodard.

Mann's final phase were movies made for Samuel Bronston as part of the EpicMovie craze of TheFifties and TheSixties. He was incidentally the original director of ''Film/{{Spartacus}}'' before he was replaced by producer/star Kirk Douglas in favor of Creator/StanleyKubrick. The two epics he made are considered by Creator/MartinScorsese to be among the best ever made. He died in 1967 but he remains highly admired and influential in America and around the world.

-> ''The films of this tin-can [[Creator/MarquisDeSade De Sade]] have a Germanic rigor, caterpillar intimacy, and an original dictionary of ways in which to punish the human body. Mann has done interesting work with scissors, a cigarette lighter and steam, but his most bizarre effect takes place in a taxidermist's shop. By intricate manipulation of athletes' bodies, Mann tries to ram the eyes of his combatants on the horns of a stuffed deer stuck on the wall.''

Emil Anton Bundsmann (1906-1967) was born in San Diego, California to a family of Austrian immigrants. He eventually found work as an actor in TheThirties and a theatre director in the early forties, noted especially for his productions of Greek tragedy. He eventually came to Hollywood by which time his professional handle became Anthony Mann.

! Selected Filmography

* ''T-Men'' (1947)
* ''Raw Deal'' (1948)

* ''The Furies'' (1950), starring Creator/BarbaraStanwyck
* ''The Tall Target'' (1951)

* ''The Glenn Miller Story'' (1954)
* ''The Far Country'' (1955)
* ''The Man from Laramie'' (1955)
* ''Strategic Air Command'' (1955)
* ''The Last Frontier'' (1955), starring Victor Mature
* ''The Tin Star'' (1957), starring Creator/HenryFonda and Anthony Perkins
* ''Men in War'' (1957)
* ''Man of the West'' (1958), starring Gary Cooper

* ''The Fall of the Roman Empire'' (1964)

Mann's career is divided into three main phases starting from the mid-late forties and ending in the early sixties. The first phase was a period of apprenticeship where he made many BMovie collaborating with the famous cinematographer John Alton (author of "Painting with Light" an important textbook for film school students). These films (''T-Men, Raw Deal'') are famous for their use of {{Chiarascuro}} and for their psychological insights. Included alongside this are unusual period films like ''Reign of Terror'' and ''The Tall Target''. He also made a well regarded film about the Korean War starring Robert Ryan (''Men in War'').

* ''The Furies'' (1950), starring Barbara Stanwyck

* ''The Tin Star'' (1957), starring Creator/HenryFonda and Creator/AnthonyPerkins