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 The Amazing Adventure (1936), Fear (1946) 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

Cary Grant and Mary Brian in The Amazing Adventure (1936)

The Amazing Adventure

6.3

Producer(produced by)

1936

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

5.7

Director

1946

Max Fliess in Der Schuß im Tonfilmatelier (1930)

Der Schuß im Tonfilmatelier

5.6

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

The Amazing Adventure
6.3
- producer (produced by)
- 1936
Cavalerie légère
- line producer
- 1935
The Young Count
7.4
- executive producer
- 1935
Light Cavalry
7.0
- producer
- 1935
Punks Arrives from America
7.4
- line producer
- 1935
Vacationing from Oneself
6.8
- executive producer
- 1934
Love and the First Railroad
7.0
- executive producer: UFA
- 1934
Maiden vs. Monk
- executive producer
- 1934
Mr. Kobin Seeks Adventure
- line producer
- 1934
Schloß Hubertus
6.9
- line producer
- 1934
L'or
6.4
- producer
- 1934
Gold
6.7
- producer
- 1934
George and Georgette
6.3
- line producer
- 1934
Victor and Victoria
6.9
- producer
- 1933
The Country Schoolmaster
- line producer
- 1933

Director

Alimony
5.3
- Director
- 1949
Parole, Inc.
5.7
- Director
- 1948
Fear
5.7
- Director
- 1946
Enemy of Women
5.0
- Director
- 1944
Make-Up
5.8
- Director
- 1937
Crime Over London
6.2
- Director
- 1936
The Amazing Adventure
6.3
- Director (directed by)
- 1936
White Majesty
7.1
- Director (directed by)
- 1933
The Star of Valencia
- Director
- 1933
A Door Opens
- Director
- 1933
Spoiling the Game
7.5
- Director
- 1932
A Shot at Dawn
7.1
- Director
- 1932
Der Hochtourist
- Director
- 1931
Sein Scheidungsgrund
- Director
- 1931
Express 13
7.4
- Director
- 1931

Actor

Studio One
7.5
TV Series
- Dr. Schiberna
- 1954
The Desert Rats
6.7
- von Helmholtz (uncredited)
- 1953
What Price Glory
6.1
- German Colonel (uncredited)
- 1952
5 Fingers
7.6
- Gen. Joseph Kaltenbrunner (uncredited)
- 1952
Bird of Paradise
6.1
- Van Hook (as Alfred Zeislor)
- 1951
The House on 92nd Street
6.6
- Col. Felix Strassen (uncredited)
- 1945
Background to Danger
6.4
- Attaché (uncredited)
- 1943
Mission to Moscow
5.4
- German Train Conductor (uncredited)
- 1943
Tonight We Raid Calais
6.3
- German Sentry (uncredited)
- 1943
Die blonde Nachtigall
- 1930
Docks of Hamburg
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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