---
name: "Paul Falkenberg"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/paul-falkenberg"
fi1m_id: "paul-falkenberg"
imdb_id: "nm0266239"
tmdb_id: 11578
wikidata_id: "Q2059502"
roles: ["Sound editor"]
born: "26 October 1903"
died: "13 January 1986"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 89
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-25T00:50:17.080159+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Paul Falkenberg

## Identity

Paul Falkenberg

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/paul-falkenberg
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** paul-falkenberg
- **IMDb ID:** nm0266239
- **TMDB ID:** 11578
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2059502
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2059502, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0266239/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/11578

Sound editor. Born 26 October 1903 in Berlin. Died 13 January 1986.

## Details

- **Work:** Sound editor
- **Born:** 26 October 1903, Berlin
- **Died:** 13 January 1986
- **Active:** 1929–1932
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1920s 88 (1), 1930s 90 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 89 to 87 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Crime 2, Drama 2, Fantasy 1, Horror 1, Mystery 1, Romance 1
- **Screen time:** 5 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $1m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2059502, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0266239/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/11578

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*M*](https://film.one/film/m.md) (94)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Paul Falkenberg was a German-American film editor and documentary filmmaker. Born in Berlin in 1903, he began working in the German film industry in the late 1920s as an assistant director on films by G. W. Pabst, including *Pandora's Box* (1929) and *Diary of a Lost Girl* (1929).

He edited Fritz Lang's *M* (1931) and contributed to Carl Theodor Dreyer's *Vampyr* (1932), as well as other German productions of the early sound era. After emigrating to the United States, he worked on documentaries and short films, directing and producing titles such as *Willem de Kooning, the Painter* (1966). He died in New York City in 1986.

*Sources: imdb.com, de.wikipedia.org, filmportal.de.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Vampyr* (1932), Fi1m 85, Sound Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/vampyr.md)
- *M* (1931), Fi1m 94, Sound Editor, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/m.md)
- *Pandora's Box* (1929), Fi1m 88, Assistant Director — [page](https://film.one/film/pandoras-box.md)

## Complete filmography (28)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *On the Road to Hollywood* (1982), Actor
- *The Challenge... A Tribute to Modern Art* (1974), Editor, Production Consultant
- *Matisse: Centennial at the Grand Palais* (1970), Director
- *Girls Come Too!* (1968), Editor
- *Nature's Sweethearts* (1963), Editor
- *Fejos Memorial* (1963), Director, Producer
- *Dadascope* (1962), Editor
- *Hideout in the Sun* (1960), Editor
- *El secreto* (1958), Editor
- *Modesta* (1956), Editor
- *Garden of Eden* (1954), Editor
- *Jackson Pollock 51* (1951), Producer
- *Lincoln Speaks at Gettysburg* (1950), Director
- *Assignment: Tel-Aviv* (1947), Producer
- *Last Love* (1935), Editor
- *Salto in die Seligkeit* (1934), Editor
- *Doña Francisquita* (1934), Editor
- *The Adventures of King Pausole* (1933), Editor
- *Vampyr* (1932), Sound Editor — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/vampyr.md)
- *Die grosse Liebe* (1931), Editor
- *The Trunks of Mr. O.F.* (1931), Editor
- *M* (1931), Editor, Sound Editor — Fi1m 94, [page](https://film.one/film/m.md)
- *Schubert's Dream of Spring* (1931), Editor
- *1914: The Last Days Before the War* (1931), Editor
- *Morals at Midnight* (1930), Assistant Director
- *Diary of a Lost Girl* (1929), Assistant Director
- *Pandora's Box* (1929), Assistant Director — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/pandoras-box.md)
- *The Spiders: Part 2 - The Diamond Ship* (1920), Editor

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