---
name: "Slavko Vorkapić"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/slavko-vorkapich"
roles: ["Special effects"]
born: "17 March 1894"
died: "20 October 1976"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 74
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-09-19T23:41:43.469230+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."
---

# Slavko Vorkapić

Special effects. Born 17 March 1894 in Serbia. Died 20 October 1976.

## Details

- **Work:** Special effects
- **Born:** 17 March 1894, Serbia
- **Died:** 20 October 1976
- **Active:** 1935–1939
- **Also known as:** Slavko Vorkapich, Славољуб "Славко" Воркапић
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 4, Romance 2, Adventure 1, Comedy 1, History 1
- **Screen time:** 8 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $16m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavko_Vorkapich, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1270602, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0903465/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1127069

## Biography

Slavko Vorkapić, also credited as Slavko Vorkapich, was a Serbian-born film director, editor and montagist who worked in Hollywood from the 1920s. He arrived in the United States in 1920 and reached Hollywood the following year, initially working as a painter and actor before specialising in montage sequences and special effects.

He co-directed the experimental short *The Life and Death of 9413: A Hollywood Extra* (1928) and created montage sequences for numerous features, including *The Good Earth* (1937). Vorkapić later served as head of the film department at the University of Southern California and taught at the Belgrade Film and Theatre Academy. He died in Mijas, Spain, in 1976.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, encyclopedia.com.*

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Mr. Smith Goes to Washington* (1939), Fi1m 84, Visual Effects — [page](https://film.one/film/mr-smith-goes-to-washington.md)
- *Boys Town* (1938), Fi1m 65, Special Effects — [page](https://film.one/film/boys-town.md)
- *The Good Earth* (1937), Fi1m 64, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/the-good-earth.md)
- *David Copperfield* (1935), Fi1m 81, Special Effects — [page](https://film.one/film/david-copperfield.md)

## Complete filmography (30)

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

- *Vorkapich Montage Sequences (1928-1934)* (2023), Director, Editor
- *Hanka* (1955), Director, Writer, Editor
- *Abstract Experiment in Kodachrome* (1950), Director
- *Joan of Arc* (1948), Assistant Director
- *Forest Murmurs* (1947), Director
- *New Americans* (1944), Director
- *Conquer by the Clock* (1942), Director
- *Private Smith of the U.S.A.* (1942), Director
- *Moods of the Sea* (1942), Director
- *Mr. Smith Goes to Washington* (1939), Visual Effects — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/mr-smith-goes-to-washington.md)
- *Boys Town* (1938), Special Effects — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/boys-town.md)
- *Marie Antoinette* (1938), Special Effects
- *The Good Earth* (1937), Editor — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/the-good-earth.md)
- *They Gave Him a Gun* (1937), Special Effects
- *David Copperfield* (1935), Special Effects — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/david-copperfield.md)
- *Millions of Us* (1935), Director
- *Crime Without Passion* (1934), Editorial Services, Special Effects
- *Manhattan Melodrama* (1934), Special Effects
- *The Furies* (1934), Director, Editor
- *Dancing Lady* (1933), Special Effects
- *Sweepings* (1933), Special Effects
- *The Past of Mary Holmes* (1933), Director
- *What Price Hollywood?* (1932), Special Effects
- *I Take This Woman* (1931), Assistant Director
- *The Wolf of Wall Street* (1929), Special Effects
- *Sins of the Fathers* (1928), Cinematography
- *Manhattan Cocktail* (1928), Visual Effects
- *The Life and Death of 9413: A Hollywood Extra* (1928), Director, Director of Photography, Writer
- *The Love of Zero* (1928), Writer
- *The Prisoner of Zenda* (1922), Writer

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