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Julius Hagen (Julius Jacob Kleimenhagen) was born on 30 November, 1883 in Hamburg, German Empire, is a British film producer (1884–1940). Discover Julius Hagen's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 56 years old?

Popular As Julius Jacob Kleimenhagen
Occupation producer,miscellaneous,director
Age 56 years old
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Born 30 November 1883
Birthday 30 November
Birthplace Hamburg, German Empire
Date of death 1940
Died Place London, England
Nationality Germany

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1884

Julius Hagen (1884–1940) was a German-born British film producer who produced more than a hundred films in Britain.

Hagen originally worked as a salesman for Ruffels Pictures.

1913

He began his entertainment career as a stage actor, but in 1913 moved into the film industry and worked for several years as a film salesman.

1917

By 1917, he was a partner in a film distribution company, but this went bankrupt in 1919.

For the next few years, Hagen returned to selling films around the country and built up a reputation as an effective salesmen, enjoying success with films that were considered difficult to sell.

He was then given a job as production manager with Stoll Pictures, one of the leading British Studios, whose main studio was based in Cricklewood.

1920

He tried to secure financial backing for further films from the City of London, but after a brief boom in the late 1920s it was increasingly difficult to secure backing there for film production.

1924

Following the Slump of 1924, the number of films produced rapidly declined and, in 1926, Hagen lost his job.

1926

He then moved to the rival company Astra-National where he co-produced The Flag Lieutenant, one of the biggest hits of 1926, starring Henry Edwards.

1927

He then worked his way up to become a production manager in the British silent film industry before becoming an independent producer in 1927.

In 1927, Hagen and Edwards formed a separate production company, and created a sequel The Further Adventures of the Flag Lieutenant, which also proved popular with British audiences.

The film was made at Twickenham Studios in Middlesex, and Hagen used it as his primary base of operations thereafter.

Hagen followed this with The Fake (1927).

In 1927, following the Slump of 1924 and the rapid drop in British film production, the British Parliament passed the Cinematograph Films Act which was designed to protect British filmmaking from foreign competition.

It imposed a quota for distributors and exhibitors, who had to show a fixed minimum percentage of British films each year.

It meant that cinemas now required an urgent increase in the availability of British films.

Hagen moved to try and exploit this sudden demand and began by producing The Passing of Mr. Quin, an Agatha Christie adaptation, which he directed himself.

Hagen gradually began to gain commissions from British distributors who needed cheap films to help them comply with the quota.

1928

From 1928, he took control of Twickenham Studios and became one of the most prolific and successful producers of Quota quickies.

Hagen also directed a film, the 1928 adaptation of an Agatha Christie novel The Passing of Mr. Quinn.

Hagen was born in Hamburg but emigrated to Britain when he was still a child.

In December 1928, he secured the lease on Twickenham Studios.

Working from Twickenham, Hagen soon established a stock company of actors and technicians to work on his films.

He kept an eye to the international market, and imported overseas stars such as Margot Landa to appear in his films.

He also arranged for co-productions including the Anglo-French At the Villa Rose.

The sudden arrival of sound created an increased demand for double bills and it soon became established that the low-budget films would be screened as a prelude to the more expensive main features produced by major studios.

They were commonly labelled "Quota Quickies", and can be considered equivalent to the B movie.

Hagen employed former silent directors such as George Pearson, Henry Edwards and Maurice Elvey.

Other directors, such as George A. Cooper and Bernard Vorhaus, made several films at Twickenham.

Leslie S. Hiscott was one of the most prolific directors, and also played a part in production and the overall running of the studio.

Hagen steadily built his business up during the early years of sound.

1929

His major breakthrough as a producer came in 1929 when he secured a contract with one of the Hollywood Majors, Warner Brothers, to provide them with a supply of British 'quota quickies' which they needed in order to meet the requirements of the Cinematograph Films Act 1927 in order to exhibit their American-made films in Britain – their most important foreign market at the time.

Despite their relatively low budgets, Hagen's films were disproportionately well received by audiences, and regularly gained many rental bookings.

Although generally designed as supporting features, many Twickenham films were instead screened as main attractions.

While Hagen's business model depended on the money he received to produce Quota Quickies, he was also more ambitious and oversaw film series dedicated to Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot.

1930

In 1930, one of the extras working on Spanish Eyes, a night-time production, died in strange circumstances, which drew attention to the studio's activities.

The subsequent Inquest exonerated the studio of any blame.

1933

In the wake of the success of his films for Warner Brothers, Hagen began receiving contracts from other Hollywood Studios Fox Film Corporation, MGM, RKO and United Artists and by 1933 Twickenham's output had reached 20 films a year.

Hagen introduced a policy of round the clock filming, which meant that separate crews worked in the day and night on different films.

1937

He later switched to making more prestigious films, but in 1937 he was forced into bankruptcy and lost control of Twickenham.