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Otto Lang (film producer) Otto Lang (21 January 1908 – 30 January 2006) was a skier and pioneer ski instructor from Bosnia and Herzegovina, who lived and worked in the United States. After teaching skiing at a variety of smaller resorts in Austria, he joined the Hannes Schneider Ski School in St. Anton am Arlberg, one of the most prestigious ...
Otto Lang (1908-2006) Otto Lang. Otto Lang was born on 21 January 1908 in Tesanta, Austria-Hungary [now Tesanj, Bosnia and Herzegovina]. He was a director and producer, known for 5 Fingers (1952), Call Northside 777 (1948) and Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970). He was married to Sinclair Gannon. He died on 30 January 2006 in Seattle, Washington, USA.
- Otto Lang
- January 30, 2006
- January 21, 1908
Among Lang’s film credits as producer are “Call Northside 777,” a 1948 crime drama starring James Stewart; and “5 Fingers,” an Oscar-nominated 1952 espionage drama starring James Mason.
Otto Lang (1908-2006) was a ski instructor, film producer, and author. Otto Lang was born in 1908 in Bosnia. He was a skier and a pioneer ski instructor. He formed ski schools in the United States and later, became a film producer and director. Lang produced Call Northside 777 (1948), 5 Fingers (1952), Search for Paradise (1956), Tora!
Otto Lang, the skiing instructor who became an Academy Award nominated film producer, has passed away on January 30, 2006 in Seattle Washington. He was 98. Born on January 21, 1908 in Tesanta, a small town outside of Sarajevo in what is now Bosnia-Herzegovina, Lang was taught to ski by a Norwegian family friend.
Jan 31, 2006 · "It's the absolute end of an era. He was the last of that generation. No one else is left," said Warren Miller, a legendary ski-film producer who first met Mr. Lang in 1946 in Sun Valley, Idaho, where Mr. Lang then ran the ski school. Mr. Lang came to the Northwest in 1936 looking for a place to film a ski-instruction movie.
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Feb 7, 2006 · Otto Lang, a West Seattle legend of skiing, movie and TV production, books and photography, died at his Admiral District home Jan. 30 at age 98. Lang was born in 1908 in Bosnia and grew up near Sarajevo. His mother was Croatian but his father was Austrian. Back then, Bosnia was part of the Hapsburg Empire.
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