Fritz Lang filmography out his remaining years. Fritz Lang filmography Fritz Lang (1890–1976) was an Austrian film director, producer and screenwriter. In Lang's early career he worked primarily as a screenwriter, finishing film scripts in four to five days. Lang went on to direct popular films of the silent era including "Metropolis" and one of the first important German sound films, "M". Lang went on to direct some of the most important crime and film noir film of the American studio era, such as "The Big Heat". Lang's final film work was an acting role as himself in Jean-Luc Godard's "Contempt". Lang returned
That Was the Week That Was news. Frankie Howerd also guested with stand-up comedy. Script-writers included John Albery, John Antrobus, John Betjeman, John Bird, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Peter Cook, Roald Dahl, Richard Ingrams, Lyndon Irving, Gerald Kaufman, Frank Muir, David Nobbs, Denis Norden, Bill Oddie, Dennis Potter, Eric Sykes, Kenneth Tynan, and Keith Waterhouse. The programme opened with a song ("That was the week that was, It's over, let it go ...") sung by Millicent Martin, referring to news of the week just gone. Lance Percival sang a topical calypso each week. Satirical targets, such as Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Home Secretary Henry Brooke