Georg von Trapp
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Georg Ritter von Trapp was an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Navy who became the patriarch of the Trapp Family Singers. After their naturalisation as US citizens, the family name was changed to 'Trap
Georg von Trapp
On duty aboard SM U-5
Lieutenant Georg Ritter von Trapp and Agathe Whitehead about 1910
The two eldest Trapp sons, Rupert (right) and Werner, in U.S. Army uniforms, reading sheet music on 24 January 1946
The Sound of Music (film)
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The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise from a screenplay written by Ernest Lehman. It is based on the 1959 stage musical composed by Richard Rodg
Georg von Trapp
…into the West German film The Trapp Family (1956), which served as the basis for the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music (1959) and the 1965 film adaptation directed by Robert Wise. Georg Ritter von Trapp was born in Zara in the Kingdom of Dalmatia, then a crown land of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and now…
Theatrical release poster by Howard Terpning
Director and producer Robert Wise in 1990
Christopher Plummer and Julie Andrews on location in Salzburg, 1964
Schloss Leopoldskron, where scenes were filmed representing the lakefront terrace and gardens of the Trapp family's villa