Biography
Anton Schelkopf (also known as Toni Schelkopf or Dr Toni Schelkopf) was a German film producer, director and assistant director. He worked in post-war cinema, founding Oska-Film GmbH in Munich in 1949, and contributed to several productions in the 1950s.
He produced Hungarian Rhapsody (1954), School for Marriage (1954, which he also co-directed) and Rot ist die Liebe (1957). He served as an uncredited producer on Max Ophüls’s Lola Montès (1955). His other credits include assistant director on Verspieltes Leben (1949) and Love on Ice (1950), and direction of the television film Der Traum des Mr Borton (1960).
Schelkopf trained in psychology and later returned to that field. He was married to the actress Cornell Borchers, who appeared in two of his films.
