Paul Panzer

Acting

Paul Panzer

Born — Died

1872-11-03 — 1958-08-16

Place of birth

Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany

Known for

Acting

Credits

61 titles

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Paul Wolfgang Panzerbeiter (3 November 1872 – 16 August 1958), known professionally as Paul Panzer, was a German-American silent film actor. He appeared in 333 films between 1905 and 1952. Panzer was best known for playing Koerner / Raymond Owen in The Perils of Pauline. From 1934 through the 1950s he was under contract to Warner Bros. as an extra.

Known for

Film credits

1950s · 5 titles

1940s · 24 titles

Casablanca poster
8.1

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

Casablanca

1943

Dark Passage poster
7.3

A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.

Dark Passage

1947

Mildred Pierce poster
7.6

A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.

Mildred Pierce

1945

A Foreign Affair poster
7.1

In occupied Berlin, an army captain is torn between an ex-Nazi café singer and the US congresswoman investigating her.

A Foreign Affair

1948

City for Conquest poster
6.9

The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?

City for Conquest

1940

Meet John Doe poster
7.3

As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement.

Meet John Doe

1941

Cry Wolf poster
6.1

A woman uncovers deadly secrets when she visits her late husband's family.

Cry Wolf

1947

The Letter poster
7.3

After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.

The Letter

1940

All Through the Night poster
6.7

Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.

All Through the Night

1942

Humoresque poster
7.0

A classical musician from a working class background is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite.

Humoresque

1947

Uncertain Glory poster
6.7

In occupied France, a convicted thief and murderer escapes the guillotine when a bombing raid strikes the prison, but is quickly re-captured by the inspector of the Surete responsible for his original arrest. Fearing the guillotine more than his actual death, the convict inveigles the inspector to help him with a plan to rescue 100 Frenchmen taken by the Gestapo following an act of sabotage: he will confess to being the saboteur and allow himself to be executed by firing squad, the Gestapo's method of execution, thus freeing the 100 men.

Uncertain Glory

1944

Money and the Woman poster
4.4

An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.

Money and the Woman

1940

The Locket poster
6.3

A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.

The Locket

1946

Action in the North Atlantic poster
7.1

Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as part of a sea convoy. When the group of ships comes under attack from a German U-boat, Rossi and Jarvis navigate through dangerous waters to evade Nazi naval forces. Though their mission across the Atlantic is extremely treacherous, they are motivated by the opportunity to strike back at the Germans, who sank one of their earlier ships.

Action in the North Atlantic

1943

Knute Rockne All American poster
6.1

The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.

Knute Rockne All American

1940

King of the Lumberjacks poster
3.7

Outdoor drama about a newly-hired lumberjack discovering that his former girlfriend is now his new boss's wife.

King of the Lumberjacks

1940

Murder in the Big House poster
6.8

When a prisoner on Death Row is "accidentally" killed just before his execution, a reporter smells something fishy...

Murder in the Big House

1942

Shine on Harvest Moon poster
6.8

Biographical movie about the early 20th century broadway stars Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth.

Shine on Harvest Moon

1944

Bad Men of Missouri poster
6.2

The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of William Merrick, a crooked banker who has been buying up warrants on back-taxes and dispossessing the farmers.

Bad Men of Missouri

1941

Dangerously They Live poster
6.3

A New York City doctor tries to rescue a young woman from Nazi agents.

Dangerously They Live

1941

Highway West poster
6.6

A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.

Highway West

1941

A Fugitive from Justice poster
5.7

Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the run. Falsely accused of a murder, he embarks upon a life-and-death journey to save his family.

A Fugitive from Justice

1940

The Conspirators poster
6.3

A guerilla leader falls in love with a mysterious woman in World War II Lisbon.

The Conspirators

1944

No Time for Comedy poster
5.4

An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success.

No Time for Comedy

1940

1930s · 29 titles

Frankenstein poster
7.5

Obsessed scientist Dr. Henry Frankenstein attempts to create life by assembling a creature from deceased body parts. Aided by his loyal misshapen assistant, Fritz, Frankenstein succeeds in animating his monster, but it flees into the countryside and begins to wreak havoc.

Frankenstein

1931

Marked Woman poster
6.6

In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.

Marked Woman

1937

Captain Blood poster
7.3

Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.

Captain Blood

1935

The Walking Dead poster
6.3

Down-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and prove his innocence. But it was too late for a stay to be granted and Ellman is executed. A doctor uses an experimental procedure to restore him to life, though the full outcome is other than expected.

The Walking Dead

1936

The Walking Dead poster
6.3

Down-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and prove his innocence. But it was too late for a stay to be granted and Ellman is executed. A doctor uses an experimental procedure to restore him to life, though the full outcome is other than expected.

The Walking Dead

1936

Charlie Chan at the Olympics poster
6.8

Get ready for a Gold Medal murder mystery! This "tense, thrilling mystery" ('California Congress of Parents and Teachers') pits Charlie Chan against international spies who are using the Berlin Olympic games as the perfect cover...for cold-blooded murder!

Charlie Chan at the Olympics

1937

Each Dawn I Die poster
6.9

A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.

Each Dawn I Die

1939

Kid Galahad poster
7.1

Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.

Kid Galahad

1937

Hard to Get poster
6.3

When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis, he makes her work out her bill by making beds. Resolving to get even, she pretends to have forgiven him, and sends him to her father to get financing for a plan Bill has. What happens next was not part of her original revenge plan.

Hard to Get

1938

Code of the Secret Service poster
4.4

Secret Service agents try to solve the theft of treasury banknote plates.

Code of the Secret Service

1939

Torchy Blane... Playing with Dynamite poster
6.8

Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.

Torchy Blane... Playing with Dynamite

1939

Gentlemen Are Born poster
7.3

A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn that the piece of paper the diploma is written on is worth about eighteen-dollars-a-week in the job-market...for the lucky ones. Some of them fare even worse.

Gentlemen Are Born

1934

The Kennel Murder Case poster
6.1

Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue.

The Kennel Murder Case

1933

King of the Underworld poster
6.4

Physician Carole Nelson, suspected of having ties to notorious gangster Joe Gurney, must prove her innocence or the Medical Board will revoke her license. When Gurney seeks her out for treatment after being shot, it could be the break Nelson needs. Now she has a chance to use her medical know-how to outwit Gurney and his goons and reestablish her professional reputation.

King of the Underworld

1939

Angels Wash Their Faces poster
6.7

A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up with the local mob boss and corrupt politicians and soon finds himself being framed for an arson and murder he didn't commit.

Angels Wash Their Faces

1939

The White Angel poster
7.3

In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurses when it was considered a disreputable profession.

The White Angel

1936

Come and Get It poster
6.8

An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman's daughter.

Come and Get It

1936

The Crooked Circle poster
5.3

A group of amateur detectives sets out to expose The Crooked Circle, a secretive group of hooded occultists.

The Crooked Circle

1932

The Return of Doctor X poster
6.0

When news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova to conduct an interview, he finds her dead from multiple stab wounds. He returns with the police to find the hotel empty and the body vanished. Garrett writes about the incident but is fired when Merrova, alive and well, goes to the paper to complain. Now his only chance to get his job back is to find the truth, which involves the grisly scheme of a madman.

The Return of Doctor X

1939

Slapsie Maxie's poster
6.0

In this comedic short, when a waiter accidentally knocks out boxing champ Tiger Dorsey in Slapsie Maxie's restaurant, Maxie arranges a boxing match between the reluctant waiter and the champ.

Slapsie Maxie's

1939

Torchy Blane in Panama poster
5.8

Torchy, Steve, and Gahagan are on the trail of a bank robber aboard an ocean liner traveling from New York to L.A. via the Panama Canal.

Torchy Blane in Panama

1938

Daughters Courageous poster
6.2

Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman. Out of the blue her first husband Jim returns after deserting the family 20 years earlier. The worldly wanderer Jim gets a cool family reception at first but his warm personality gradually wins the affections of his four daughters. In fact, youngest daughter Buff, who has her eye on a maverick of her own in Gabriel Lopez, is pleased when Jim grants his stamp of approval on her relationship. Buff plans to elope with Gabriel on her mother's wedding day, but 'unpredictable' is Gabriel's middle name.

Daughters Courageous

1939

Dishonored poster
7.0

The Austrian Secret Service sends its most seductive agent to spy on the Russians.

Dishonored

1931

Racket Busters poster
5.6

A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.

Racket Busters

1938

Women in the Wind poster
6.8

A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.

Women in the Wind

1939

Dust Be My Destiny poster
6.5

Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.

Dust Be My Destiny

1939

Hitler: Beast of Berlin poster
4.7

Hans Memling, a young intellectual, patriotic German, is secretly opposed to the Nazi regime. With the aid of Gustav Schultz, Father Pommer, Anna Wahl and others, he is gleaning accurate information from foreign radio broadcasts and distributing it through Germany with an underground-press operation.

Hitler: Beast of Berlin

1939

British Intelligence poster
5.8

During WWI pretty German master spy Helene von Lorbeer is sent undercover to London to live with the family of a high-placed British official where she is to rendezvous with the butler Valdar, also a spy, and help him transmit secret war plans back to Germany.

British Intelligence

1939

Defenders of the Law poster
7.0

A gang of racketeers, with the aid of a high-ranking city official has control of a big-city, and the police plant an undercover cop to gather evidence against the hoodlums - except the police keep telling the wrong person what they are up to.

Defenders of the Law

1931

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