Biography

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.

After Alfred Zeisler ( Jewish film producer and director) had fled abroad with his wife Lien Deyers view of being arrested. The actress Marika Rokk acquired his confiscated -by the Nazis- villa in Potsdam-Babelsberg and lived there with her husband. The in 1985 deceased Zeisler said he never received a penny for his confiscated house.

To his well-known movies as a director belong the cyclist comedy "Strich durch die Rechnung" (1932) with Heinz Rühmann ), "Der Stern von Valencia" (1933) and later in the emigration the movies"Crime Over London" (1936), "The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss" (1936) with Cary Grant and "Fear" (1946).

The actor, producer and director Alfred Zeisler was born in Chicago, his father and his uncle were both stage actors.

He began his cinematical work in the silent movie era.