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Known for:	Nosferatu the Vampire, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
Birth name:	Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe
Birthday:	28 December 1888, Bielefeld, North-Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

One of the three top German directors of the 20s, the others being Fritz Lang and Ernst Lubitsch. The border between dream and reality is often fluent in his films. Was a closet homosexual. Retrospective at the 53rd Berlin International Film Festival. [2003] A very tall man and, although perhaps a slight exaggeration, he was said to be nearly 7 feet tall. Was voted the 33rd Greatest Director of all time by Entertainment Weekly. Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945". Pages 807-819. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987. Murnau did not live to see the premiere of his last film; he died in an automobile accident in Santa Barbara, California on March 11, 1931. The car was driven by Murnau's fourteen-year old Filipino valet Garcia Stevenson. Murnau was entombed in Berlin. Robert Flaherty, Emil Jannings and Greta Garbo attended the funeral, and Fritz Lang delivered the funeral speech.

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