- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- September 3, 1901
- Place of Birth
- Bonn, Germany
- Died
- May 29, 1994
José Bohr
Born in Germany on November 3, 1901 under the name of Joseph Bohr Elzer, the young José Bohr arrived with his family to colonize southern Chile in 1904. It was in the city of Punta Arenas where he began his precocious cinematographic and musical career, composing songs including the hymn "Punta Arenas", playing the piano for silent films and making his first film works before he was in his twenties. After emigrating to Santiago in 1921, he went to Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina, hired by the Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs to make a documentary. Later he settled in Buenos Aires, where he composed a good part of the 200 songs that swelled the popular songbook of the time, such as "Y tenía un lunar", "Cascabelito" and "Pero hay una melena", as well as advertising tangos for music houses. He performed for the first time in the United States in 1925, starring in the musical show Gaucho a…
Filmography
movieSonrisas de Chile
1970 · Director, Music
movieLos buenos samaritanos
1966
movieProcesado 1040
1958 · Original Music Composer
movieThe Big Chamorro Circus
1955 · Producer, Director
movieOne Who's Been a Sailor
1951 · Producer, Director, Music
movieTime Flies
1950 · Director
La cadena infinita
movieLa cadena infinita
1949 · Director
movieThe Hand of Death
1948 · Producer, Director
movieMis espuelas de plata
1948 · Director, Screenplay
Tonto Pillo
movieTonto Pillo
1948 · Director, Producer
movieIf My Fields Could Talk
1947 · , Director
movieEl último guapo
1947
movieLa Dama de las Camelias
1947 · Director
movieEl hombre que se llevaron
1946 · Producer
movieFlor del Carmen
1944 · Director
movieP'al otro lado
1942 · Director
movieBorrasca humana
1940 · , Original Music Composer, Editor, Director
movieA Macabre Legacy
1939 · Director, Original Music Composer, Editor, Writer
movieUna luz en mi camino
1939 · Director, Screenplay
movieEl látigo
1939 · Director
movieEl rosario de Amozoc
1938 · Director
movieCanto a mi tierra
1938 · Director, Editor, Original Music Composer
moviePor mis pistolas
1938 · Director
movieMarihuana (El monstruo verde)
1936 · Raúl Devoto / Daniel, Director, Writer, Producer, Original Music Composer, Editor
movieAsí es la mujer
1936 · Director
movieSueño de amor
1935 · Director, Producer
movieTu hijo
1935 · Director
movieLuponini (El terror de Chicago)
1935 · Luponini, Original Music Composer, Writer, Director, Producer
movieWho Killed Eve?
1934 · Jose Rolan, Director, Writer, Producer, Music
movieLa sangre manda
1934 · , Director
movieHollywood, City of Dreams
1931 · José, Producer, Writer
movieRogue of the Rio Grande
1930 · El Malo
movieEx-Flame
1930 · Argentinean
movieThus is Life
1930 · José Rolan
moviePacto con el Diablo (o el socio, Mr. Davis)
1929 · , Writer
Las cuatro plumas
movieLas cuatro plumas
1928
Actualidades de Magallanes Nº7
movieActualidades de Magallanes Nº7
1920 · Director
Mi noche alegre
movieMi noche alegre
1920 · , Screenplay, Director, Producer
movieEasily, or The Lottery Ticket
1919 · Director
MAGALLANES FILM: ACTUALIDADES DE MAGALLANES Nº3
movieMAGALLANES FILM: ACTUALIDADES DE MAGALLANES Nº3
1919 · Director
MAGALLANES FILM: ACTUALIDADES DE MAGALLANES Nº1
movieMAGALLANES FILM: ACTUALIDADES DE MAGALLANES Nº1
1919 · Director
MAGALLANES FILM: MAGALLANES COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRIAL AND LIVESTOCK FARMING
movieMAGALLANES FILM: MAGALLANES COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRIAL AND LIVESTOCK FARMING
1919 · Director