death_place death_date birth_place nationality birth_date yearsactive imdb_id article_title name occupation
paris france 18 july 1965 -lrb- aged 84 -rrb- jaroslau , galicia austria-hungary austrian 12 june 1881 1920 - 1952 0321973 max glass
 max glass screenwriter , producer
max glass

max glass -lrb- june 12 , 1881 -- july 18 , 1965 -rrb- was an austrian screenwriter and film producer .
glass was born in jaroslau , which was then part of the austro-hungarian empire , into a jewish family , but later converted to catholicism .
he gained a phd in philosophy from the university of vienna .
glass entered the german film industry as a writer , but soon became a producer .
by the mid-1920s he rose to be head of production at terra film before breaking away to set up his own production company in 1928 glass ' lover the actress ruth werner appeared in a number of his films but was unable to marry him until he had secured a divorce from his first wife .
following the nazi takeover of power in germany in 1933 , glass ' production companies were shut down and he was forced to go into exile in france .
glass again worked as a producer , but ran into further trouble following the german invasion of france during the second world war .
in 1942 the collaborationist vichy government stripped him of his citizenship .
glass and werner then went to brazil and united states for the remainder of the conflict , only returning to france once the war was over .
they finally married in 1957 .
