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Otto (AH-toh)
1. Otto Preminger: American film producer and director
2. Otto Graham: American football player and coach
Common clues: Filmmaker Preminger; Preminger or Graham
Crossword puzzle frequency: 4 times a year
Frequency in English language: 11089 / 86800
Otto Ludwig Preminger (December 5, 1906 – April 23, 1986) was a film director. Born in Vienna, of assimilated Jewish ancestry, he worked with Max Reinhardt before immigrating to America. At first he directed and acted for 20th Century Fox, his Austrian accent typecasting him as a screen Nazi.
After the war, he became one of the most consistent Hollywood directors of the 1950s and early 1960s — delivering intelligent and entertaining films, often literary adaptations, albeit rather melodramatic or heavy-going on occasion.
Notable films include Anatomy of a Murder with James Stewart and Ben Gazzara, Advise and Consent with an on-form Charles Laughton, and Bonjour Tristesse with David Niven and Deborah Kerr.
Through a relationship with Gypsy Rose Lee he had one child, the screenwriter Eric Lee Preminger.
Otto Preminger died in 1986 and was interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, New York.
Otto Everett Graham Jr. (December 6, 1921–December 17, 2003) was a professional American football player.
Born in Waukegan, Illinois, Graham graduated from Northwestern University. He played tailback in his college years. Graham also played basketball at Northwestern. Upon joining the Cleveland Browns of the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) in 1946, he was switched to quarterback. He also played professional basketball in 1946 with the Rochester Royals.
During the AAFC's four-year existence, the Browns won the championship each year. Graham threw for 10,085 yards and 86 touchdowns, while rushing for 11 more.
The Browns joined the National Football League in 1950, and won the league championship in their first NFL season. Behind Graham's 88 touchdowns in the NFL, the Browns won two more league titles, in 1954 and 1955. In the 1954 championship game against the Detroit Lions, Graham ran for three touchdowns and passed for three more.
Graham had an astounding 105-17-4 record with the Browns before he retired after the 1955 season. He is the only NFL QB to take his team to the Championship game every year he played and his 86.6 career pass rating is one of the best of all time. In 1955 Graham won the Hickok Belt as top professional athlete of the year. In 1965 he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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