Director, Producer. Born Endre Márton in Budapest, Austria-Hungary, Marton began his film career immediately after high school as an editor for the Sascha-Film studio in Vienna. Finding work in Berlin and Great Britain, he directed the mountain genre film "Der Dämon des Himalaya" in 1934 later remaking it as "Storm Over Tibet" in 1952. He settled in the United States at the outbreak of World War II, working mainly for MGM, although he would produce and direct a series of exotic-themed pictures for a company he formed with Iván Törzs, Louis Meyer and László Benedek. He was celebrated for directing the renowned chariot race sequence for "Ben-Hur" in 1959, considered by many to be the greatest action sequence put to film, and for which he won a Golden Globe Award in 1960. He died of pnemonia in Santa Monica, California in 1992.
Director, Producer. Born Endre Márton in Budapest, Austria-Hungary, Marton began his film career immediately after high school as an editor for the Sascha-Film studio in Vienna. Finding work in Berlin and Great Britain, he directed the mountain genre film "Der Dämon des Himalaya" in 1934 later remaking it as "Storm Over Tibet" in 1952. He settled in the United States at the outbreak of World War II, working mainly for MGM, although he would produce and direct a series of exotic-themed pictures for a company he formed with Iván Törzs, Louis Meyer and László Benedek. He was celebrated for directing the renowned chariot race sequence for "Ben-Hur" in 1959, considered by many to be the greatest action sequence put to film, and for which he won a Golden Globe Award in 1960. He died of pnemonia in Santa Monica, California in 1992.
Bio by: Barry Zimmerman
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