- Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945". Pages 369-371 (as Henryk Galeen). New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987.
- One of the great figures in early German expressionist cinema. A master of symbolism. First worked as a journalist. By 1906 was assistant to Max Reinhardt and applied for German citizenship. Wrote screenplays from 1915, notably The Golem (1914) and Nosferatu (1922). As director, best known for The Student of Prague (1926) and A Daughter of Destiny (1928). Fled Germany in 1933 for the United States, where he died in obscurity.
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