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Reginald LeBorg
Reginald LeBorg (born Harry Gröbel; 11 December 1902 – 25 March 1989) was an Austrian-American film director. He directed 68 films between 1936 and 1974.
LeBorg is perhaps best known for the horror films he made at Universal studios in the 1940s for the Inner Sanctum Mystery series, including Calling Dr. Death (1943) and Weird Woman (1944).
A perennial director of low-budget "B movie" Hollywood productions, LeBorg was notable for striving to render "every nuance and visual flair" from even the most mediocre screenplay.
LeBorg's accomplishment is the scope of his oeuvre, spanning every film genre, including opera, musicals, crime drama, romantic comedy, westerns, science fiction and horror.
Harry Gröbel (Harry Groebel) was born and raised in Vienna, Austria. His father, Julius, was a wealthy banker-financier, art collector, and a patron of the arts; his mother, Regina Joseph Burte, was a musically talented housewife. According to her son, she was a "strong woman". Harry had two younger brothers. The family owned an ancestral estate outside Vienna where racing horses were bred, as well as an aviation company and other investments in the United States. He completed his primary schooling and studied piano and violin at home. He earned a degree in political economy at the University of Vienna and later attended the Arnold Schonberg's Composition Seminar for a year.
Groebel was deployed by his father to oversee the family banking concerns around Europe in the early 1920s, spending two years at Banque de Pays de L'Europe Centrale. He habitually frequented theatres, neglecting his duties. In Paris he performed sketches at the Folies Bergère. He lived in New York City off and on between 1923 and 1929 representing his father's financial interests and working at brokerage houses. As a rich 20-something, LeBorg mixed with figures from the music and entertainment world, including George Gershwin. He also took courses in literature at Columbia University.
When the stock market crashed in the Panic of 1929, the family lost their fortune. His father, who was advanced in years and in poor health, died not long afterwards. Groebel abandoned finance and began looking for work as a playwright or an off-Broadway actor in New York, without success. In 1930, he returned to Europe and studied with impresario Max Reinhardt at his school in Vienna, staging a number of operas and musical comedies in Central Europe.
In 1934, Groebel moved to Hollywood, California to seek employment as a screenwriter, adopting the forename "Reginald" (from his mother's name) and spelling his family name backwards to create the professional surname "LeBorg".
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Reginald LeBorg
Reginald LeBorg (born Harry Gröbel; 11 December 1902 – 25 March 1989) was an Austrian-American film director. He directed 68 films between 1936 and 1974.
LeBorg is perhaps best known for the horror films he made at Universal studios in the 1940s for the Inner Sanctum Mystery series, including Calling Dr. Death (1943) and Weird Woman (1944).
A perennial director of low-budget "B movie" Hollywood productions, LeBorg was notable for striving to render "every nuance and visual flair" from even the most mediocre screenplay.
LeBorg's accomplishment is the scope of his oeuvre, spanning every film genre, including opera, musicals, crime drama, romantic comedy, westerns, science fiction and horror.
Harry Gröbel (Harry Groebel) was born and raised in Vienna, Austria. His father, Julius, was a wealthy banker-financier, art collector, and a patron of the arts; his mother, Regina Joseph Burte, was a musically talented housewife. According to her son, she was a "strong woman". Harry had two younger brothers. The family owned an ancestral estate outside Vienna where racing horses were bred, as well as an aviation company and other investments in the United States. He completed his primary schooling and studied piano and violin at home. He earned a degree in political economy at the University of Vienna and later attended the Arnold Schonberg's Composition Seminar for a year.
Groebel was deployed by his father to oversee the family banking concerns around Europe in the early 1920s, spending two years at Banque de Pays de L'Europe Centrale. He habitually frequented theatres, neglecting his duties. In Paris he performed sketches at the Folies Bergère. He lived in New York City off and on between 1923 and 1929 representing his father's financial interests and working at brokerage houses. As a rich 20-something, LeBorg mixed with figures from the music and entertainment world, including George Gershwin. He also took courses in literature at Columbia University.
When the stock market crashed in the Panic of 1929, the family lost their fortune. His father, who was advanced in years and in poor health, died not long afterwards. Groebel abandoned finance and began looking for work as a playwright or an off-Broadway actor in New York, without success. In 1930, he returned to Europe and studied with impresario Max Reinhardt at his school in Vienna, staging a number of operas and musical comedies in Central Europe.
In 1934, Groebel moved to Hollywood, California to seek employment as a screenwriter, adopting the forename "Reginald" (from his mother's name) and spelling his family name backwards to create the professional surname "LeBorg".