Max Nosseck

Directing

Max Nosseck

Born 1902-09-19 · Nakel, Germany [now Naklo nad Notecia, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland]

Max Nosseck (September 19, 1902, Nakel – September 29, 1972, Bad Wiessee) was a German actor, film director, and screenwriter. After studying art in Vienna, he began his career in Berlin as a performer and filmmaker, directing his first feature in 1930. Following the rise of the Nazi regime, Nosseck emigrated in 1933 and worked across France, Spain, Portugal, and the Netherlands before settling in the United States in 1939, where he directed films primarily for MGM, sometimes using the name Alexander M. Norris. Nosseck returned to Germany in the mid-1950s, directing films and television productions and later appearing in small acting roles. His career spanned silent cinema, European exile productions, Hollywood genre films, and postwar German television.

Acting credits

Fräulein Lausbub poster
7.0

Daisy Baroness Eggloffsburg, a ball of energy, is a spoiled and rather lively, cheerful wild child who is always in the mood for pranks. Her uncle Egon, a stern old gentleman, thinks she has had enough of her foolishness and boozy ideas and needs a man to tell her off and tame Daisy. Harry Spring, the young sportsman hired for the job, is supposed to get both the girl and Baron Eggloffsburg, the owner of the racing stable, back on their feet. But Daisy doesn't give in so easily and now begins to give the young gallant a good grooming.

Fräulein Lausbub

1930

Robinson and His Tempestuous Slaves poster
3.9

Robinson, a down-on-his-luck pharmacist who’s pestered by his nagging wife and overbearing mother-in-law, dreams of seclusion on a remote island with the girl of his fantasies. Finally fed up, he decides to leave and make his dream a reality. But beware! there are cannibals.

Robinson and His Tempestuous Slaves

1972

Sperrbezirk poster
4.3

The story of a pimp who falls in love with one of his victims, is "purified" by it, but also perishes. A colportage that vacillates between sentimentality, brutality and speculation.

Sperrbezirk

1966

Gentlemen in White Vests poster
7.9

Bruno Stiegler, a boxing promoter with a disreputable past, returns from America to Berlin to make some big things again with his friends. Fatally, he is always preceded by some gentlemen from better circles who are developing amazing criminal activity in their old days. They are led by Oberlandesgerichtsrat a. D. Herbert Zänker, whom it still hisses, that he could bring in his term Bruno never behind bars.

Gentlemen in White Vests

1970

Was ist denn bloß mit Willi los? poster
7.0

Willi Winzig is a small tax officer with a big heart. He sometimes lets the tax files of his insolvent fellow citizens disappear into the air shaft. But shortly before his retirement, the shaft is so full that Willi has to dispose of the file of a penniless taxpayer in the wastepaper basket. The scam is promptly discovered and Willi is threatened with a hefty fine - even dishonorable dismissal from the civil service. Fortunately, friend and colleague Felix Klein knows what to do.

Was ist denn bloß mit Willi los?

1970

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Kasernenzauber

1931

Love's Clover Leaf poster
7.0

A comedy about love and winter sports. A funny game of confusion from the beauty of a winter paradise and the romantic amorous adventures of four young people who were brought together by whim and chance and united by happiness.

Love's Clover Leaf

1930

Behind the camera

Münchhausen in Afrika poster
4.5

The adventures of Baron Münchhausen jr. in Africa.

Münchhausen in Afrika

1958

Das Liebesleben des schönen Franz poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Das Liebesleben des schönen Franz

1956

The Brighton Strangler poster
6.3

After suffering a head injury during the London Blitz, theatre actor John Loder comes to believe himself to be the Brighton Strangler, the murderer he was playing onstage.

The Brighton Strangler

1945

The Brighton Strangler poster
6.3

After suffering a head injury during the London Blitz, theatre actor John Loder comes to believe himself to be the Brighton Strangler, the murderer he was playing onstage.

The Brighton Strangler

1945

Dillinger poster
5.9

The life of American public enemy number one who was shot by the police in 1934.

Dillinger

1945

The Schlemihl poster
9.0

Hartwig gets by a strange coincidence confused by a prince with a certain Josef Döllinger in a luxurious restaurant. Hartwig is overjoyed, as he gets to know the dancer Garda Maro.

The Schlemihl

1931

For Once I'd Like to Have No Troubles poster
9.0

Depression musical comedy about an unemployed barber who pretends to be a wealthy automobile magnate.

For Once I'd Like to Have No Troubles

1932

Kill or Be Killed poster
5.9

An innocent man accused of a murder hides out aboard a steam ship in South American.

Kill or Be Killed

1950

Kill or Be Killed poster
5.9

An innocent man accused of a murder hides out aboard a steam ship in South American.

Kill or Be Killed

1950

The Hoodlum poster
6.2

Vincent Lubeck is a vicious ex-convict. His criminal activities are despised by his family, but he uses and abuses them in the course of his crimes. Eventually his own brother must stand up to him.

The Hoodlum

1951

No artwork available
9.0

Susan Morrow, the secretary to Robert Clarke, a model photographer, is upset when her boss pays too much attention to model Noreen Nash. Morrow's younger sister takes a candid photo of her sister in her underwear, with face hidden, and sends it to Clarke. He is intrigued and tries to locate the mystery girl but, meanwhile, enters the photograph in a contest. It wins, provided Clarke can identify the girl. He offers a reward and hires a friend to search for her. Meanwhile, back the agency, Nash offers to pose as the missing girl, but she and Clarke quarrel and she walks out. Rather than leave her boss in a fix, Morrow admits she is the girl in the picture.

The Body Beautiful

1953

No artwork available
9.0

Susan Morrow, the secretary to Robert Clarke, a model photographer, is upset when her boss pays too much attention to model Noreen Nash. Morrow's younger sister takes a candid photo of her sister in her underwear, with face hidden, and sends it to Clarke. He is intrigued and tries to locate the mystery girl but, meanwhile, enters the photograph in a contest. It wins, provided Clarke can identify the girl. He offers a reward and hires a friend to search for her. Meanwhile, back the agency, Nash offers to pose as the missing girl, but she and Clarke quarrel and she walks out. Rather than leave her boss in a fix, Morrow admits she is the girl in the picture.

The Body Beautiful

1953

Forbidden Paradise poster
3.0

Combining documentary elements with a playful narrative, the film explores the evolution of bathing culture and social morals in Germany. Set in a summer resort where traditional values clash with more liberal attitudes, it humorously reflects on changing views of decency, freedom, and modern life.

Forbidden Paradise

1958

Der Hauptmann und sein Held poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Hauptmann und sein Held

1955

Garden of Eden poster
4.6

War widow and pre-teen daughter leave home of tyrannical father-in-law in Florida, get lost on a detour, and find shelter at a nudist colony.

Garden of Eden

1954

Garden of Eden poster
4.6

War widow and pre-teen daughter leave home of tyrannical father-in-law in Florida, get lost on a detour, and find shelter at a nudist colony.

Garden of Eden

1954

Polikuschka poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Polikuschka

1958

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Casanova wider Willen

1964

Black Beauty poster
5.7

Based on Anna Sewell's novel. In rural England of the 1880's, widower Squire Wendon is rearing his young daughter Anne. Her father has forbidden her to be present when their mare, "Duchess," gives birth. Anne sneaks out to the stable, however, and is discovered by her father who forbids her ever to ride Duchess again. Despite this punishment, he gives Anne Duchess's colt because it is her birthday, and she names him "Black Beauty."

Black Beauty

1946

Girls Under 21 poster
4.8

Francis Ryan, living high-and-free-wheeling life as the wife of gangster "Smiley" Ryan, spends some time behind bars as a result of her husband's activities, and, when she gets out, realizes she has been a bad example for her kid-sister, Jennie White, and five of her friends. With the aid of her old boyfriend, she manages to divert them from their juvenile-delinquent path leading to disaster for each.

Girls Under 21

1940

The Return of Rin Tin Tin poster
5.7

A World War II European orphan, Paul, has lost all faith in humanity. Brought to the United States by Father Mathew, Paul's confidence and faith are gradually restored through his close association with a dog, Rin-Tin-Tin.

The Return of Rin Tin Tin

1947

Singing in the Dark poster
8.0

Leo, a holocaust survivor who suffers from total amnesia, comes to the U.S. and works as a hotel desk clerk. One night while a comedian who owns a bar in the hotel gives him a drink, he breaks out in song and discovers a great voice. Under a psychiatrist's treatment, and because of a blow to the head by some hoodlums, he realizes his name is David and that he was the son of a great Jewish Cantor, and gradually recovers his memory of losing his parents. He gives up a promising career singing in nightclubs to return to the synagogue.

Singing in the Dark

1956

Singing in the Dark poster
8.0

Leo, a holocaust survivor who suffers from total amnesia, comes to the U.S. and works as a hotel desk clerk. One night while a comedian who owns a bar in the hotel gives him a drink, he breaks out in song and discovers a great voice. Under a psychiatrist's treatment, and because of a blow to the head by some hoodlums, he realizes his name is David and that he was the son of a great Jewish Cantor, and gradually recovers his memory of losing his parents. He gives up a promising career singing in nightclubs to return to the synagogue.

Singing in the Dark

1956

The King of the Champs-Élysées poster
5.9

In Paris, a stage-struck would-be actor is mistaken for an escaped convict.

The King of the Champs-Élysées

1934