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German film and television director

John Brahm (August 17, 1893 – October 12, 1982) was a German film and television director. His films include The Undying Monster (1942), The Lodger (1944), Hangover Square (1945), The Locket (1946), The Brasher Doubloon (1947), and the 3D horror film, The Mad Magician (1954).

Brahm was born Hans Brahm in Hamburg, the son of actor Ludwig Brahm and his wife. His family was involved in theater; his paternal uncle was theatrical impresario Otto Brahm.

Brahm started his career in the theatre as an actor. After serving as an infantryman in the Imperial German Army on both the Western and Russian Fronts during World War I, he traveled and worked among the cities of Vienna, Berlin and Paris, which had the most artistic cultures of the time. He eventually became a director, and was appointed as resident director for acting troupes at the Deutsches Theater and the Lessing Theater, both in Berlin. during the 1950s and 1960s. Among these, he also directed numerous episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone. Brahm's last full length film was Hot Rods to Hell.

He married an actress named Hanna, who ran off with another actor, leaving him seriously depressed. Secondly, he married actress Dolly Haas. They divorced after coming to the United States, when their careers moved in different directions. She appeared in New York theatre and in 1943 she married again, to Al Hirschfeld, the caricaturist for The New York Times. In the 1950s Brahm married his third wife, Anna. They had two children together. Their grandchildren include Christopher Maltauro, who became a movie producer and assistant director.