Wolfgang Zilzer
Date of birth: 1901-01-20
Place of birth: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Wolfgang Zilser, John Voigt, John Voight, Paul Andor, Paul Ander
Biography
German-American actor.
Movie Credits
A Daughter Of Destiny
1928-01-25
Hanns Heinz Ewers' grim science-fiction novel Alraune has already been filmed twice when this versio
Raid in St. Pauli
1932-05-02
Illustrates both the powerlessness of the ordinary worker as well as an intimate portrait of the joy
Docks of Hamburg
1928-10-10
When Hamburg ship's mate Klaus Brandt catches a thief one night at the port, his downfall is pre-ord
Bluebeard's 8th Wife
1938-03-25
American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broke
To Be or Not to Be
1942-03-06
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's effor
Lovesick
1983-02-18
Sigmund Freud's ghost advises a married New York psychiatrist in love with a patient.
Invisible Agent
1942-07-31
The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany.
Hotelgeheimnisse
1929-03-19
Hitler's Madman
1943-06-10
In 1942, a young paratrooper in the RAF returns to Czechoslovakia to encourage his fellow countrymen
Schützenliesel
1926-12-21
Walk East on Beacon
1952-06-01
An FBI agent works with a refugee scientist and the Coast Guard to crack a Soviet spy ring in Boston
Forbidden Passage
1941-02-08
This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short looks at the U.S. Department of Immigration's efforts to ha
Enemy of Women
1944-11-10
Playwright Joseph Goebbels turns Nazi propagandist and loses his girlfriend to another man.
Casablanca
1943-01-15
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with un
Television Spy
1939-10-20
A scientist invents a television device called the Iconoscope. Foreign agents hear about it and try
The Diary of Anne Frank
1967-11-26
During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in
I'll Give a Million
1938-07-27
After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that
Thérèse Raquin
1928-11-04
Thérèse Raquin, an unhappily married woman, aided by her lover Laurent, drowns her husband Michaud,
Der Barbier von Filmersdorf
1915-06-11
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
1939-05-06
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
Everything Happens at Night
1939-12-22
Two reporters compete to discover a scientist living in hiding and win his daughter.
Espionage Agent
1939-09-30
When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplo
Ninotchka
1939-11-23
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who repres
Appointment in Berlin
1943-07-15
The "war of nerves" which gripped the European continent in 1938, is the background for this war thr
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
1940-02-23
True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syph
Underground
1941-06-28
A World War II Hollywood propaganda film detailing the dark underside of Nazism and the Third Reich
Escape
1940-11-01
An American goes to pre-war Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. Wi
A Dispatch from Reuters
1940-10-19
German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news age
Three Faces West
1940-07-03
Viennese surgeon Dr. Braun and his daughter Leni come to a small town in North Dakota as refugees fr
Marriage in Name Only
1930-11-26
a movie by Heinz Paul
Alpentragödie
1927-09-19
The Ancient Law
1923-10-29
Baruch Mayer, son of an orthodox rabbi from a poor shtetl in Galizia, decides to break with the fami
Bookkeeper Kremke
1930-09-14
In this realistic, unsentimental portrait of Germany’s dire economic situation, a middle-aged payrol
The Lady Has Plans
1942-01-20
Some dastardly criminals have stolen some top secret plans and tattoo them on the back of a woman so
Hotel Imperial
1939-05-11
It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and Austrian
Mata Hari: the Red Dancer
1927-05-02
Mata Hari, die rote Tänzerin (English: Mata Hari: The Red Dancer), often shortened on release to Mat
So Ends Our Night
1941-02-27
An anti-Nazi refugee on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler
Boycott
1930-12-14
A film about the pupils of a posh Berlin gymnasium in their final term, and their class teacher teac
Hitler: Beast of Berlin
1939-10-07
Hans Memling, a young intellectual, patriotic German, is secretly opposed to the Nazi regime. With t
Such Is Life
1930-03-24
A story about domestic life in a typical working-class environment. Life and trials and how little s
Das Heiratsnest
1927-09-01
Venus in Evening Wear
1927-04-12
Arme kleine Colombine
1927-04-06
The Devil with Hitler
1942-10-18
Adolf Hitler, Benito and Suki Yaki are placed in a series of Three-Stooges routines, with the premis
Primanerliebe
1927-06-02
An exploration of the misery of youth. A student, his friends, and the girl he loves all suffer due
Geschminkte Jugend
1929-04-17
Based on the real life events of the 1927 Steglitzer Schülertragödie, in which several high school s
Behind the Rising Sun
1943-08-01
A Japanese publisher urges his American-educated son to side with the Axis.
Stairway to Light
1945-11-03
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells the story of 18th Century French physician Dr. Philip
Margin for Error
1943-02-10
When police officer Moe Finkelstein and his colleague Officer Salomon are ordered to serve as bodygu
Crucified Girl
1929-08-26
The young student Mary spends the beginning of her holiday with boat trips, visits to her wealthy gr
Sir or Madame
1928-11-13
A girl posing as a knight's male valet is vamped by his fiancée
Daughters of Eve
1928-04-03
An unmarried showgirl takes a handsome companion with her on a vacation, to the distress of others.
Out of Darkness
1941-03-29
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells of the Nazis' efforts to shut down an underground res
Counter-Attack
1945-04-26
Two Russians fight to escape the seven Nazi soldiers trapped with them in a bombed building.
Singing in the Dark
1956-03-07
Leo, a holocaust survivor who suffers from total amnesia, comes to the U.S. and works as a hotel des
Bomber's Moon
1943-08-05
An American pilot swears to get revenge on the German ace who shot his brother in this war movie set
Casanova wider Willen
1931-10-19
Jeffrey wants to marry Virginia, who refuses to marry unless her older sister, the hard-to-please An
The High Tourist
1931-11-27
Romantic exploits in Germany's White Mountains.
Hotel Berlin
1945-03-02
An assortment of diverse characters gather at the Hotel Berlin in World War II Germany as the Third
Die Spinne
1917-02-02
Mister Buddwing
1966-07-15
An amnesiac wanders the streets of Manhattan, trying to solve the mystery of who he is.
Strafsache van Geldern
1932-08-22
Paulus van Geldern is a lawyer who has made a name for himself as a criminal defense attorney, but i
The Hiding Place
1960-03-22
In the last days of World War II, two English airmen are captured by an ordinary German citizen, who
Union City
1980-09-26
A 1950s accountant with a restless wife grows paranoid after hiding a milk thief's corpse next door.