Alfred Zeisler(1897-1985)

Producer
Director
Actor

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Alfred Zeisler was born on 26 September 1897 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a producer and director, known for Frayeur (1946), La chasse aux millions (1936) and Der Schuß im Tonfilmatelier (1930). He was married to Lien Deyers. He died on 1 March 1985 in Camano Island, Washington, USA.

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Known for

Peter Cookson, Anne Gwynne, and Warren William in Frayeur (1946)

5.7

Director

1946

Cary Grant and Mary Brian in La chasse aux millions (1936)

La chasse aux millions

6.3

Producer(produced by)

1936

Max Fliess in Der Schuß im Tonfilmatelier (1930)

Der Schuß im Tonfilmatelier

5.7

Producer

1930

Gloria Stuart, Claudia Drake, Sigrid Gurie, Beryl Wallace, Donald Woods, and Wolfgang Zilzer in Enemy of Women (1944)

5.0

Director

1944

Credits

Producer

La chasse aux millions
6.3
- producer (produced by)
- 1936
Cavalerie légère
- line producer
- 1935
Der junge Graf
6.9
- executive producer
- 1935
Leichte Kavallerie
7.1
- producer
- 1935
Punks kommt aus Amerika
7.8
- line producer
- 1935
Ferien vom Ich
6.9
- executive producer
- 1934
Die Liebe und die erste Eisenbahn
7.0
- executive producer: UFA
- 1934
Jungfrau gegen Mönch
- executive producer
- 1934
Herr Kobin geht auf Abenteuer
- line producer
- 1934
Schloß Hubertus
6.9
- line producer
- 1934
L'or
6.4
- producer
- 1934
Gold
6.7
- producer
- 1934
Georges et Georgette
6.3
- line producer
- 1934
Victor et Victoria
6.9
- producer
- 1933
Heideschulmeister Uwe Karsten
- line producer
- 1933

Director

Alimony
5.3
- Director
- 1949
Parole, Inc.
5.7
- Director
- 1948
Frayeur
5.7
- Director
- 1946
Enemy of Women
5.0
- Director
- 1944
Make-Up
5.8
- Director
- 1937
Crime sur Londres
6.4
- Director
- 1936
La chasse aux millions
6.3
- Director (directed by)
- 1936
Die weiße Majestät
7.6
- Director (directed by)
- 1933
Der Stern von Valencia
- Director
- 1933
Eine Tür geht auf
- Director
- 1933
Strich durch die Rechnung
7.2
- Director
- 1932
Schuß im Morgengrauen
7.1
- Director
- 1932
Der Hochtourist
- Director
- 1931
Sein Scheidungsgrund
- Director
- 1931
D-Zug 13 hat Verspätung
7.4
- Director
- 1931

Actor

Studio One
7.5
TV Series
- Dr. Schiberna
- 1954
Les rats du désert
6.7
- von Helmholtz (uncredited)
- 1953
Deux durs à cuire
6.1
- German Colonel (uncredited)
- 1952
L'affaire Cicéron
7.6
- Gen. Joseph Kaltenbrunner (uncredited)
- 1952
L'oiseau de paradis
6.1
- Van Hook (as Alfred Zeislor)
- 1951
La maison de la 92e rue
6.6
- Col. Felix Strassen (uncredited)
- 1945
Intrigues en Orient
6.4
- Attaché (uncredited)
- 1943
Mission à Moscou
5.4
- German Train Conductor (uncredited)
- 1943
Tonight We Raid Calais
6.3
- German Sentry (uncredited)
- 1943
Die blonde Nachtigall
- 1930
Die Carmen von St. Pauli
7.0
- 1928

Personal details

Alternative name
- Alfred Zeislor
Born
- September 26, 1897
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
Died
- March 1, 1985
- Camano Island, Washington, USA(undisclosed)
Spouse
- Lien Deyers1934 - 1940 (divorced)

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Trivia
American-born producer/director/writer, who worked in Germany from 1924. He left Germany after the Nazis came to power and returned to the U.S. after a brief stint in France. He freelanced as a director of low-budget films for various Poverty Row studios in the 1940s, later using his fluency in German to appear as an actor, playing assorted Nazi officers and functionaries, in several Hollywood films of the early 1950s.

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