AKA: Sandor Korda, Sursum Corda, Sir Alexander Korda, Sandor Laszlo Kellner
Nationality: Hungarian
Birthdate: 09/16/1893
Birthplace: Turkeve, Hungary
Death Date: 01/23/1956
biography
Korda helped found the Hungarian film industry and worked in the studios of Vienna, Berlin and Hollywood before becoming a naturalized and, in 1943, a knighted Englishman. Together with his brothers Vincent (a production designer) and Zoltan (a director), Korda helped define the cinematic image of the British Empire. (His taste for pomp and pageantry had become apparent as early as 1920, when he filmed an adaptation of Mark Twain's "The Prince and the Pauper" for an Austrian company.) After a stay in Berlin Korda was invited to Hollywood in 1926, where he soon realized that the talents of his
