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Walter Lang
Walter Lang (August 10, 1896 – February 7, 1972) was an American film director.
Early life.
Walter Lang was born in Tennessee. As a young man he went to New York City where he found clerical work at a film production company. The business piqued his artistic instincts and he began learning the various facets of filmmaking and eventually worked as an assistant director. However, Lang also had ambitions to be a painter and left the United States for a time to join the great
he was an assistant to the noted French atomic physicist André Helbronner who was killed by the Gestapo towards the end of World War II. According to Walter Lang, Bergier was approached by Fulcanelli with a message for Helbronner about man's possible use of nuclear weapons. The meeting took place in June 1937 in a laboratory of the Gas Board in Paris.
During the Second World War and the German occupation of France, Bergier worked for the "Réseau Marco-Polo" at Lyon, a French Resistance network in contact with