Robert Muller (screenwriter)

Robert Muller (1 September 1925 – 27 May 1998) was a German-born British journalist and screenwriter, who mainly worked in television.^[1] Since his father was Jewish, he emigrated to Britain in 1938 as a thirteen-year-old refugee from Nazi Germany.

Selected works[]

Film[]

• Woman of Straw (1964)
• The Beauty Jungle (1964)
• I'm an Elephant, Madame (1969)
• The Roaring Fifties (1983)

Television[]

• London Playhouse: Jane Clegg (dir. Peter Cotes, 1956)
• Armchair Theatre: The Night Conspirators (dir. Philip Saville, 1962)^[2]
• Armchair Theatre: Afternoon of a Nymph (dir. Philip Saville, 1962)
• Armchair Theatre: Thank You and Goodnight (dir. Philip Saville, 1962)
• Armchair Theatre: The Paradise Suite (dir. Philip Saville, 1963)
• Playdate: The Night Conspirators (1963)
• Armchair Theatre: Pleasure Is Where She Finds It (dir. Charles Jarrott, 1964)
• Story Parade: The World That Summer (dir. Peter Sasdy, 1965)
• Armchair Mystery Theatre: Man and Mirror (dir. Patrick Dromgoole, 1965)
• Armchair Theatre: A Cold Peace (dir. Don Leaver, 1965)
• Mystery and Imagination: The Body Snatcher (dir. Toby Robertson, 1966) — based on The Body Snatcher
•  [de] (dir:  [de] and  [de], 1966, TV miniseries) — based on a non-fiction book by  [de]
• The Wednesday Play: The Executioner (dir. Michael Hayes, 1966)
• Die Unberatenen (dir. Peter Zadek, 1966) — based on a novel by  [de]
• Out of the Unknown: The Prophet (dir. Naomi Capon, 1967) — based on Reason by Isaac Asimov
• Armchair Theatre: Easier in the Dark (dir. Don Leaver, 1967)
• Armchair Theatre: A World of Time (dir. Don Leaver, 1967)
• Theatre 625: Henry IV (dir. Michael Hayes, 1967) — based on Luigi Pirandello's Henry IV
• Haunted: After the Funeral (dir. Don Leaver, 1967)
• The Wednesday Play: Death of a Private (dir. James Ferman, 1967) — loosely based on Woyzeck
• Man in a Suitcase: The Bridge (dir. Pat Jackson, 1967)
• Armchair Theatre: You and Me (dir. Kim Mills, 1968)
• Nana (dir: , 1968, TV miniseries) — based on Émile Zola's Nana
• Mystery and Imagination: Frankenstein (dir. Voytek, 1968) — based on Frankenstein
• Out of the Unknown: Beach Head (dir. James Cellan Jones, 1969) — based on a story by Clifford D. Simak
• Out of the Unknown: The Naked Sun (dir. Rudolph Cartier, 1969) — based on The Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov
• Mystery and Imagination: The Suicide Club (dir. Mike Vardy, 1970) — based on Robert Louis Stevenson's The Suicide Club
• Take Three Girls (1971, TV series, 4 episodes)
• Bel Ami (dir: , 1971, TV miniseries) — based on Guy de Maupassant's Bel-Ami
• Die Sonne angreifen (dir. Peter Lilienthal, 1971) — based on a novel by Witold Gombrowicz
• Public Eye: Shades of White (dir. Piers Haggard, 1971)
• (dir: Herbert Wise, 1972, TV miniseries) — based on Der Untertan by Heinrich Mann
• Van der Valk und das Mädchen (dir: Peter Zadek, 1972) — based on a novel by Nicolas Freeling
• The Song of Songs (dir: Peter Wood, 1973, TV miniseries) — based on The Song of Songs by Hermann Sudermann
•  [de] (dir: Wolfgang Petersen, 1973) — based on a novel by Nicolas Freeling
• Colditz: Chameleon (dir. Philip Dudley, 1974)
• Fall of Eagles: Indian Summer of an Emperor (dir. Donald McWhinnie, 1974)
• Omnibus: The Need for Nightmare (dir. Harley Cokeliss, 1974)
• Churchill's People: The Lost Island (dir. Philip Saville, 1975) — based on A History of the English-Speaking Peoples
• A Legacy (dir: Derek Martinus, 1975, TV miniseries) — based on Sybille Bedford's A Legacy
• Private Affairs: A Dream of Living (dir. Philip Saville, 1975)
• Van der Valk und die Toten (dir:  [fr], 1975) — based on a novel by Nicolas Freeling
• Ten from the Twenties: Motherlove (dir. Mark Cullingham, 1975) — based on a story by J. D. Beresford
• Ten from the Twenties: Her Wedding Morn (dir. Barry Letts, 1975) — based on a story by Sheila Kaye-Smith
• Ten from the Twenties: The Fifty Pound Note (dir. Mark Cullingham, 1975) — based on a story by A. E. Coppard
• Supernatural: Ghosts of Venice (dir. Claude Whatham, 1977)
• Supernatural: Countess Ilona (dir. Simon Langton, 1977)
• Supernatural: The Werewolf Reunion (dir. Simon Langton, 1977)
• Supernatural: Mr Nightingale (dir. , 1977)
• Supernatural: Lady Sybil (dir. Simon Langton, 1977)
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (dir. , 1977) — based on The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
• Supernatural: Night of the Marionettes (dir. , 1977)
• Supernatural: Dorabella (dir. Simon Langton, 1977)
• Prince Regent (dir: Michael Simpson and Michael Hayes, 1979, TV miniseries)
• Die Welt in jenem Sommer (dir.  [de], 1980)
• (dir: Egon Günther, 1981, TV miniseries) — based on a novel by Lion Feuchtwanger
• Blood and Honor: Youth Under Hitler (dir:  [de], 1982, TV miniseries)
• Russian Night... 1941 (dir: Desmond Davis, 1982) — based on a story by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
•  [de] (dir: Peter Weck, 1982) — based on Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris by Paul Gallico
• Nachruf auf Othello (dir:  [de], 1983) — based on a novel by  [de]
• : Secrets (dir. Peter Sasdy, 1983)
•  [de] (dir:  [de], 1984) — based on a novel by  [de]
• Die Fräulein von damals (dir: Dietrich Haugk, 1986)
• Albert Schweitzer (dir:  [de], 1987, TV miniseries)
• (dir: Dietrich Haugk, 1991)

References[]

Bibliography[]

• Anthony Grenville. Refugees from the Third Reich in Britain. Rodopi, 2002.

External links[]

• Robert Muller at IMDb