Zoltan Korda
Hungarian writer, director
Born
03 June 1895
in PusztaturpasztoJasz-Nagykun-SzolnokHungary
Died
13 October 1961
screenwriter, director and producer, he came from the Hungarian. Korda served in the Hungarian Army as a cavalry officer. He made his first film in Hungary in 1918, and worked with his brother Alexander Korda (second his brother Vincent was a filmmaker too) on filmmaking there and in London. They both moved to the United States in 1940 to Hollywood and the
American film industry. Korda married the British actress Joan Gardner in 1930. Best known as director: Men of Tomorrow (1932), Sanders of the River (1935), Elephant Boy (1937), The Drum (1938), The Four Feathers (1939), Jungle Book (1942), Sahara (1943), A Woman’s Vengeance (1947), The Macomber Affair (1947), Storm Over the Nile (1955).
1943 |
director | |
 American M3 tank crew members, stranded in the middle of Sahara desert, find themselves surrounded by German battalion trying to get to the only water supply in the area. | ||
