Wolfgang Zilzer

Acting

Wolfgang Zilzer

Born 1901-01-20 · Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

German-American actor.

Acting credits

Casablanca poster
8.1

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

Casablanca

1943

Hitler's Madman poster
5.5

In 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

Ninotchka poster
7.5

A 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

To Be or Not to Be poster
7.8

During 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

Playhouse 90: The Hiding Place poster
NR

In 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

Such Is Life poster
6.7

A story about domestic life in a typical working-class environment. Life and trials and how little situations have big consequences.

Such Is Life

1930

Three Faces West poster
5.7

Viennese 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

Hotel Berlin poster
6.2

An assortment of diverse characters gather at the Hotel Berlin in World War II Germany as the Third Reich falls.

Hotel Berlin

1945

Confessions of a Nazi Spy poster
6.1

FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.

Confessions of a Nazi Spy

1939

Bluebeard's 8th Wife poster
7.1

American 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 artwork available
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Schützenliesel

1926

Invisible Agent poster
5.8

The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany.

Invisible Agent

1942

Thérèse Raquin poster
5.2

Thérèse 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

Marriage in Name Only poster
5.0

a movie by Heinz Paul

Marriage in Name Only

1930

Strafsache van Geldern poster
5.8

Paulus 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

Die Spinne poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Die Spinne

1917

Escape poster
7.5

An 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

Lovesick poster
5.9

Sigmund Freud's ghost advises a married New York psychiatrist in love with a patient.

Lovesick

1983

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet poster
6.5

True 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

The High Tourist poster
10.0

Romantic exploits in Germany's White Mountains.

The High Tourist

1931

Das Heiratsnest poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Das Heiratsnest

1927

Union City poster
5.4

A 1950s accountant with a restless wife grows paranoid after hiding a milk thief's corpse next door.

Union City

1980

Mister Buddwing poster
6.1

An amnesiac wanders the streets of Manhattan, trying to solve the mystery of who he is.

Mister Buddwing

1966

Bookkeeper Kremke poster
7.8

In 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