Curt Siodmak

Born in Dresden, Germany, in 1902, 'Curt Siodmak' (qv) worked as an engineer and a newspaper reporter before entering the literary and movie fields. It was as a reporter that he got his first break (of sorts) in films: in 1926 he and his reporter-wife hired on as extras on 'Fritz Lang' (qv)'s _Metropolis (1927)_ (qv) in order to get a story on the director and his film. One of Siodmak's first film-writing assignments was the screenplay for the German sci-fi picture _F.P.1 Doesn't Answer (1932)_ (qv) (US title: "Floating Platform 1 Does Not Answer"), based on his own novel. Compelled to leave Germany after 'Adolf Hitler' (qv) and the Nazis took power, Siodmak went to work as a screenwriter in England and then moved to Hollywood in 1937. He got a job at Universal through his director-friend 'Joe May' (qv), helping write the script for May's _The Invisible Man Returns (1940)_ (qv). Because the film went over well, Siodmak says, he fell into the horror/science-fiction "groove."::Tom Weaver <[email protected]>