Biography
Max Fabian, also credited as Maximilian Fabian, was a Polish-Jewish cinematographer who worked in Hollywood during the silent era and the transition to sound films.
Born Maksymilian Fabian on 1 May 1891 in Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary, he received cinematography credits on approximately eighteen films between the early 1920s and 1930. These include The Strangers' Banquet (1922), Mr. Barnes of New York (1922), The Gay Deceiver (1926), The Thirteenth Hour (1927), Shadows of the Night (1928) and The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929).
After his final credited film as director of photography, the Spanish-language El Presidio (1930), Fabian moved into MGM's visual effects department, where he specialised in miniature photography and special effects.
