Paul Fejos was a 20th century renaissance man: a successful film director, ethnographer, and administrator, he was, above all, a humanist.
Dr. Paul Fejos (January 24, 1897 — April 23, 1963) was born Fejös Pál in Budapest, Hungary. In 1921 he received an M.D. from the Royal Hungarian Medical University of Budapest, but showed early interest in film making and by 1923 had directed a few movies. He arrived in the U.S. in 1923 and directed several influential and successful features in Hollywood (including his masterpiece, Lonesome, 1928) until his departure for Europe in 1931. After creating a series of ethnographic films around the world, he returned to the U.S. to work at the Viking Fund in New York—later called the Wenner-Gren Foundation. He eventually became president of the Fund and greatly influenced the development and direction of anthropological research in America and elsewhere.
Paul Fejos appears in the following:
Man, Magic and Medicine (Linsly R. Williams Memorial Lecture)
Wednesday, November 23, 1955
