
Acting
Wolfgang Zilzer
Born 1901-01-20 · Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
German-American actor.
Acting credits
8.1In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
Casablanca
1943
5.5In 1942, a young paratrooper in the RAF returns to Czechoslovakia to encourage his fellow countrymen to sabotage the German war effort.
Hitler's Madman
1943
7.5A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
Ninotchka
1939
7.8During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
To Be or Not to Be
1942
NRIn the last days of World War II, two English airmen are captured by an ordinary German citizen, who, instead of handing them over to the authorities, keeps them prisoner in his cellar, neglecting to tell them when the war ends.
Playhouse 90: The Hiding Place
1960
6.7A story about domestic life in a typical working-class environment. Life and trials and how little situations have big consequences.
Such Is Life
1930
5.7Viennese surgeon Dr. Braun and his daughter Leni come to a small town in North Dakota as refugees from Hitler. When the winds of the Dust Bowl threaten the town, John Phillips leads the townsfolk in moving to greener pastures in Oregon. He falls for Leni, but she is betrothed to the man who helped her and her father escape from the Third Reich. She must decide between the two men.
Three Faces West
1940
6.2An assortment of diverse characters gather at the Hotel Berlin in World War II Germany as the Third Reich falls.
Hotel Berlin
1945
6.1FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
1939
7.1American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broke French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only a number in the line of his ex-wives and undertakes her own strategy to tame him.
Bluebeard's 8th Wife
1938
No synopsis available yet.
Schützenliesel
1926
5.8The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany.
Invisible Agent
1942
5.2Thérèse Raquin, an unhappily married woman, aided by her lover Laurent, drowns her husband Michaud, only to find the guilt of her actions intolerable.
Thérèse Raquin
1928
5.0a movie by Heinz Paul
Marriage in Name Only
1930
5.8Paulus van Geldern is a lawyer who has made a name for himself as a criminal defense attorney, but is notoriously short of funds due to his unbridled passion for gambling. His gambling causes problems with his marriage to Martha who is thriving.
Strafsache van Geldern
1932
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Die Spinne
1917
7.5An American goes to pre-war Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of an American-born widowed countess he seeks to engineer her escape.
Escape
1940
5.9Sigmund Freud's ghost advises a married New York psychiatrist in love with a patient.
Lovesick
1983
6.5True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphilis.
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
1940
10.0Romantic exploits in Germany's White Mountains.
The High Tourist
1931
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Das Heiratsnest
1927
5.4A 1950s accountant with a restless wife grows paranoid after hiding a milk thief's corpse next door.
Union City
1980
6.1An amnesiac wanders the streets of Manhattan, trying to solve the mystery of who he is.
Mister Buddwing
1966
7.8In this realistic, unsentimental portrait of Germany’s dire economic situation, a middle-aged payroll clerk loses his job due to technological advances and, unable to find another, descends into despair. The film’s director, Marie Harder, was one of only a few women directors of the time and was also the head of the German Social Democratic Film Office. She made only two known films before her accidental death in exile in Mexico in 1936.
Bookkeeper Kremke
1930