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Boris Ingster was born on 29 October, 1903 in Riga, Latvia, is an American film director. Discover Boris Ingster'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 74 years old?

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Occupation producer,writer,miscellaneous
Age 74 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 29 October, 1903
Birthday 29 October
Birthplace Riga, Latvia
Date of death August 2, 1978
Died Place Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, CA
Nationality Latvia

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His wife is Zita Perczel (m. 1944), Leni Stengel (m. 1930)

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Boris Ingster Net Worth

His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Boris Ingster worth at the age of 74 years old? Boris Ingster’s income source is mostly from being a successful Producer. He is from Latvia. We have estimated Boris Ingster's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

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1900

Another brother was Leonid Mikhailovich Azarh (March 20, 1900, Riga – 1964, Paris), a French film editor and film editor, and participant in the Second World War; before emigration he served as the Commissar of the USSR.

He also had a sister, Fanny Mikhailovna Pevzner.

1903

Boris Ingster was a Russian-American screenwriter, film and television director, and producer (October 29, 1903, in Riga, then in the Russian Empire – August 2, 1978, in Los Angeles, California) notable for his role in launching the film noir genre.

He was born on October 29, 1903, in Riga, Russian Empire (now Latvia), in the family of guild merchant Moses Ber-Itsikovich Azarh (1869, Velizh – 1941, Riga) and Miriam-Basi Leizerovna Gottlieb (1876, Moscow – 1941, Riga).

His older brother was Alexei Mikhailovich Granovsky.

1920

In the 1920s, Alexei worked in theatre, founding the Moscow State Jewish Theatre (GOSET), which he also directed.

In the 1920s, Ingster emigrated to France, where in 1930 he was an assistant to Sergei Eisenstein on the set of the film Sentimental Romance (1930).

He moved to the United States, where he began to work in film and television; he was a screenwriter on various films, including The Story of Alexander Graham Bell.

1922

In the beginning of his career in Russia, Boris Ingster met Sergei Eisenstein in 1922 in Moscow, when Ingster was an acting student and Eisenstein was a play director.

Ingster saw him directing an Alexander Ostrovsky play with a bizarre, circus-like stage, complete with a tightrope, even though the play was from a realistic genre.

Ingster approached Eisenstein after the play to ask about the unusual re-casting of the setting.

1928

In 1928, Alexei went on tour with the theater and stayed in Berlin, and then moved to Paris.

1930

In the 1930s he was a screenwriter on several films.

Boris married actress Leni Stengel in 1930, Wilma Ingster in 1938, Hungarian actress Zita Perczel in 1944 (they divorced in 1954), and Christiane Ingster-Oshay (nee Deleval, later Oshay) in 1955.

1940

He made his directorial debut in 1940 with the film noir movie Stranger on the Third Floor.

He directed his first film in 1940 with Stranger on the Third Floor, on which he also was a writer.

This film is now most commonly cited as the first "true" film noir.

1943

In 1943, he contributed screenwriting to the MGM propaganda film Song of Russia, which led to controversy due to concerns it had a pro-Soviet bias.

1947

In 1947, he wrote and directed the comedy The Judge Steps Out.

1950

In the 1950s and 1960s he shifted much of his attention to producing television series in genres ranging from drama to Westerns and spy thrillers.

Boris Ingster is a literal Yiddish translation for Boris Jr. His real name and family name was Boris Mikhailovich Azarkh (Борис Михайлович Азарх).

By the 1950s, Ingster switched much of his attention to television work.

He produced 25 episodes of the Western Wagon Train series, 18 episodes of the drama series The Roaring 20's, 11 episodes of another Western, Cheyenne, and 38 episodes of the spy-thriller series The Man from U.N.C.L.E..

1962

With Christiane, he had a son, Michael in 1962.