Max Glass (12 June 1881 â€" 18 July 1965) was an Austrian
screenwriter, film director, and producer.Glass was born in Jaroslau,
which was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, into a Jewish
family, but later converted to Catholicism. He gained a PHD in
Philosophy from the University of Vienna. Glass entered the German
film industry as a writer, but soon became a producer. By the
mid-1920s he rose to be head of production at Terra Film before
breaking away to set up his own production company in 1928 Glass'
lover the actress Ruth Werner appeared in a number of his films but
was unable to marry him until he had secured a divorce from his first
wife.Following the Nazi takeover of power in Germany in 1933, Glass'
production companies were shut down and he was forced to go into exile
in France. Glass again worked as a producer, but ran into further
trouble following the German invasion of France during the Second
World War. In 1942 the collaborationist Vichy Government stripped him
of his citizenship. Glass and Werner then went to Brazil and United
States for the remainder of the conflict, only returning to France
once the war was over. They finally married in 1957. Max Glass Biography, Weight & Height, Age, Nationality & Ethnicity
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